Sole Pensions Trustee Service

Pi Pension Trustees are one of the leading providers of independent pension trustee services, including sole trusteeship with over two-thirds of our trustee appointments based on this structure. A Sole Corporate Trustee is becoming an increasingly popular choice for trustee boards and employers for a number of reasons.

It is essential for sole trustees to have a robust governance framework within the trustee organisation. This helps to provide a rigorous peer review system and additional security for both company and members. Our trustee appointment processes and procedures are independently audited on an ongoing basis, ensuring compliance with the Assurance Reporting Framework (AAF02/07).

Why Appoint A Sole Corporate Trustee?

A sole trustee can meet a number of challenges of managing mature pension schemes and can enable a pension scheme to run cost-effectively with robust governance processes to help deliver the member benefits.

Sole Trustee Benefits Include:

• Board Succession – a planned move enables the transfer of historic scheme knowledge from the existing trustee board. Enabling existing trustees to retire securely in the knowledge that member interests are protected;
• Regulation Compliance – complexity of legislation and investment portfolios means that the duties of trustees to maintain their ongoing knowledge continues to be demanding. It is part of the duty of a professional trustee to remain up to date with changing legislation and investment developments including ensuring a scheme meets all the regulatory requirements;
• Streamlined governance – moving to sole trusteeship helps streamline the governance framework leading to shorter, more focused decision-making processes which also helps to drive good budget management;
• Total scheme management service – as part of our sole trustee service, we can incorporate full secretariat services to provide a comprehensive scheme management solution. The scheme secretary service combines strong organisational skills with pensions knowledge, to help drive cost efficiencies and deliver scheme objectives.

Why Choose Pi Trustees Sole Trustee Services 

We combine the range of skills and experience of our trustees and the wider team to meet individual client requirements in a highly effective way. Our service focuses on the following aspects.

• An open, collaborative and partnership approach with the scheme sponsor;
• Agreeing a shared set of strategic objectives for the pension scheme;
• Collaborating with the outgoing trustee board to  share knowledge;
• Establishing working relationships with the scheme providers and advisers, using our wider market knowledge to ensure services are optimised with effective cost management.

Our pension trustee services and fees are tailored to meet the specific needs of your pension scheme and we are happy to agree fixed fees where possible. Our team is ready, and waiting to help with your sole trustee needs.

Have a question? Contact us on 020 8879 6500 or enquiries@pipg.co.uk