Expert governance and support services for pension scheme trustee boards and corporates.
Burness Paull provides stand-alone pensions support services, including outsourced pensions management, governance support, scheme secretarial services and project support, which is tailored to fit your needs.
Our scheme secretarial and governance team comprises skilled professionals with industry knowledge and the experience and confidence to exercise judgement. We tailor our service to meet the bespoke needs of schemes and trustees of varying types and sizes. We save trustees time and take care of the challenges of regulatory compliance, providing a high-quality service that you can trust and rely on.
As well as providing a full scheme secretarial service, we can assist our clients with all manner of projects, far beyond the BAU of running of a DB pension scheme. We use our insight and commercial outlook, to help develop long-term strategies and establish robust governance and control frameworks.
Our breadth and depth of experience means we can provide insightful support on all aspects of pensions governance, such as the Pensions Regulator's General Code of Practice, including the Own Risk Assessment, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, risk registers and business plans.
Trustees can rely on us to keep them safe in terms of fulfilling their obligations and duties. We believe this allows clients to be forward-looking, resting assured that they are fully compliant and that the governance surrounding decision-making has been dealt with properly.
Our team can help you with:
- Trustee training
- Member communications and trustee-sponsoring employer communications
- The Pensions Regulator (TPR) General Code support, including Own Risk Assessment
- Equality, diversity & inclusion support
- Trustee appointments, board effectiveness reviews and skills matrices
- Selection/tender exercises for service providers and Master Trusts
- Outsourced pensions management
- Project management
- Guaranteed Minimum Pension (GMP) project support
- Endgame support
- Administration oversight
- Investment oversight
- Fee benchmarking and budget monitoring
- Experienced ad-hoc resource
Get in touch with our pensions governance and support team today to find out how we can help.
Very pragmatic and commercially aware... has gained the trust and respect of trustees
- Chambers UK
Key Contacts
Xian Li
Senior Pensions Consultant
Pensions
Xian is a senior pensions consultant in our Pension team.
Derick MacLeod
Senior Pensions Consultant
Pensions
Derick is a senior pensions consultant in our Pension Team.
Marshall Rowan
Pensions Consultant
Pensions
Marshall is a pensions consultant in our Pensions team.
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