Papers by Shoshana Paget
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, 2022
The Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Administration) Regulations 1996 ("the Administration Re... more The Occupational Pension Schemes (Scheme Administration) Regulations 1996 ("the Administration Regulations") require the Trustees to prepare an annual statement regarding governance, which should be included in the annual report. This statement issued by the Trustees covers the period from 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019 and is signed on behalf of the Corporate Trustees by the Chair. This statement covers governance and charge disclosures in relation to the following: 1. The Default Arrangement, 2. Processing of core financial transactions, 3. Member borne charges and transaction costs, 4. Value for Members assessment, and 5. Trustee knowledge and understanding. The Corporate Trustee are responsible for investment governance, this includes the Corporate Trustee reviewing the default arrangement remains in the best interests of the members. When the Scheme was originally established the Corporate Trustee took professional advice and selected a pension scheme where the With-Profits Fund was the only available investment fund option available to members. This was originally with Friends Life, who were acquired by Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited (Aviva) in 2015, all policies, assets and liabilities of Friends Life were transferred and completed by 1 October 2017. The fund is now called the Aviva Life & Pensions UK Limited With-Profits Sub-fund. There are two main types of With-Profit policies in the Sub-Fund, of which for this scheme, it is invested in the Conventional With-Profits fund. It is the responsibility of the Aviva Board to ensure that Aviva manages the Sub-Fund in line with the Principles and Practices set out in the Principles and Practices of Financial Management (PPFM). Full details of the Aviva With-Profits Sub-Fund are recorded in the Aviva PPFM which can be found on the following link: aviva.co.uk/ppfm/#fp-with-profits In summary the key points to note in relation to the Conventional With-Profits Fund are as follows: i. Aviva rate the With-Profits Sub-Fund as a low to medium volatility fund. ii. The Sub-Fund aims for longer-term growth by investing in a broad range of assets. iii. The value of the Sub-Fund can go up as well as down depending on the returns of the underlying mix of assets within the Sub-Fund. iv. Aviva share out the profits and losses of the Sub-Fund through a system of bonuses, with the aim of smoothing the returns of the With-Profits investment over the long term. v. Smoothing helps to reduce some of the significant ups and downs of investing in the stock market. The fund aims to smooth the rises and falls in value by holding back some of the investment returns in good years, these investment returns are then used to top up bonuses in poor investment years.
Book Chapters by Shoshana Paget
Interrupting the Legal Person (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 87A), 2022
This chapter looks at how the concept of biopolitics can be used to understand the settler colo... more This chapter looks at how the concept of biopolitics can be used to understand the settler colonial legal orders. The focus is on the evolution of the definition of ‘Indian status’ in the Indian Act, which is the central piece of legislation in Canada’s Indian administration regime. Historically, the legal concept of Indian status was used as a way to constitute a population in relation to colonial sovereignty, and later was adapted as a mechanism to internally dividing the population through complex forms of legal domination. Scholars have turned to Michel Foucault’s studies of biopolitics and racism to understand how settler colonial sovereignty relates to a population on a territory. This chapter argues that Foucault’s analysis was radically historically embedded in a way that shapes its relevance to understanding settler colonialism. In Foucault’s original analysis, racism emerges as tool of the state in the relation between territory and sovereignty, which was characteristic in feudal Europe. In settler colonial legal orders such as Canada, however, sovereignty’s relation to the population is constituted in the absence of a prior connection to the land.
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