Pensions Trusteeship and Governance

Our pension trustee services see us act as chair of trustees, corporate sole trustee, co-trustee, subcommittee chair or member, master trust trustee, IGC member or for ad-hoc support. 

We maintain strict independence from scheme advisers, enabling objective oversight and robust challenge when needed.

Our collaborative approach means that clients benefit from both a dedicated lead trustee and a peer trustee. The peer trustee performs a quality assurance role, maintaining a level of knowledge of the scheme through regular discussions with the lead trustee and addresses “key person risk” exposure.

Our pensions governance business releases the pensions pressure on in-house teams and supports trustee boards as they work to deliver optimum outcomes for members.

We support clients as needed, be it as scheme secretary, through strategic project management such as Guaranteed Minimum Pensions Equalisation (GMPE) and the General Code, with adviser selection and administration oversight all the way to fully outsourced pensions management.

Our services are flexible. Whether meeting an interim or permanent requirement, or on an ad-hoc basis the pensions governance team will seamlessly integrate with your team to deliver best-practice governance support and relieve your pensions pressure.

Our Dublin-based pensions team has professional backgrounds in actuarial, investment, administration and legal roles. Each is a qualified trustees as required under IORP II.

They support clients across sectors, with local and multi-national, and public sector schemes and work across defined benefit, defined contribution, Master Trust and Risk Only (Death In Service) clients in Ireland.

As with our UK-based trustees our Irish pension trustee team can act as chair of trustees, co-trustee, corporate sole trustee, master trust trustee or committee member. 

Our pension governance experts in Ireland provide best in class pension scheme secretarial services in line with the Pension Authority’s Code of Practice for occupational pension schemes and trust RACs.

The pensions governance team offers scheme secretarial services on a standalone basis or in conjunction with our trusteeship services.

Our project management experience includes the successful delivery of several transitions to master trust and wind-up projects where this proved advantageous to meeting the IORP II requirements in a cost effective manner.

As permanent or interim pensions manager solutions we have supported schemes through the Pension Authority’s supervisory review process and can support your scheme in preparing for a Pensions Authority supervisory review.

In addition our Irish pensions team is experienced in providing administration oversight services and critical reviews of administrator performance as well as Trustee Board effectiveness reviews and third-party adviser reviews.