Leading professional trustee firms have formed a new Trustee Sustainability Working Group (TSWG). The group seeks to improve stewardship practices across the industry, through engagement with fund managers and investee companies, while...
Mercer has appointed Deborah Frost as the new chair of trustees of the Mercer Master Trust, effective from April 2025. Frost has held executive, non-executive, and board director positions in the technology...
An investigation by the Pensions Ombudsman’s Pensions Dishonesty Unit (PDU) has resulted in a £5.2m repayment order for trustees found personally liable for breaching their duties and facilitating pension liberation arrangements. Trustees...
DB scheme trustees should consider more than just price when selecting an insurer for buy-in or buy-out, according to Hymans Robertson's new paper. According to the paper, as schemes go towards buy-out...
The PMI has launched its first Special Interest Group (SIG), created for trustees. Through the Special Interest Group (SIG), trustees can communicate, exchange information, and support one another. It allows professional and...
The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has joined Standard Life’s Trustee Accelerator Programme (TAP), offering trustee trainee Dean Dennis, managing director of global services at Verizon Business, an 18-month pensions committee shadowing opportunity....
Dalriada Trustees has appointed Helen Scothern as a senior professional trustee. She joins from Cooper Parry, where she served as a pensions audit associate partner and led the firm's pension audit team. ...
Professional trustee firms have welcomed the Pensions Regulator's plans to enhance oversight, which aims to uphold high standards of professional conduct. But there is a call for the regulator to assess the...
HS Trustees has appointed Bobby Riddaway to be its new managing director Riddaway joined HS Trustees at the start of July this year. He was previously a trustee at Capital Cranfield, and...
For the first time more than half of UK pension schemes are under professional or sole trustee arrangements, according to new research. LCP’s fourth annual Professional Trustee survey shows that professional trustees...
