Client feedback

“Stuart is a very experienced and good leader and certainly has met expectations.”

Christopher MacFarlane ,

Bristow Group

“Appointing Kevin as KBC professional trustee was one of the best decisions the bank took. He complements the other two trustees and also appreciates the position of the employer too. The experience a professional trustee adds is invaluable and they can share their knowledge and market practice within the KBC plan. Kevin manages the budget in consultation with the bank, fully debriefs all parties and maintains a constant dialogue with myself (as HR Manager) and trustees. Since we have worked together for a number of years, Kevin also appreciates some of the limitations we face ie budgets, and always comes up with a proactive approach and solution. His input is particularly valued by the bank trustee who is an actuary in our pensions department in Belgium Head Office. ”

Sharron King,

KBC Bank

“We have realised the benefit of having and independent trustee. Claire sees what general practice is like, so is able to guide us.”

Anthony Bowen,

Colart Fine Art & Graphics

“Thanks for all your help!”

“Excellent communication - the trustee training course facilitators were clearly knowledgeable and very experienced in their field and able to convey concept and information in a way I was able to understand. ”

Phillipa McFadyen,

RSPCA

“Great communication and practical help.”

PSGS boosts their investment, project management & ESG expertise

Topic:

PSGS news

Date published:

Thursday, 20 October 2022

We’re very pleased to welcome four new members to the PSGS team who have boosted our investment, project management, ESG and technology expertise.

Our first introduction is Sasha Jain who joined us in August. Sasha has extensive experience of working with pension trustee boards and corporate stakeholders on a wide range of investment issues, including journey planning and investment strategy, risk management, buy ins and buy outs and governance. As well as taking on professional trustee appointments, Sasha will be supporting PSGS colleagues on investment issues and leading fiduciary manager selection exercises.

David Griffiths, an experienced programme manager and pension trustee, joined us in September. David has an extensive background in finance and leading business change management programmes. He joined from GSK where he was a pensions project consultant. Before this, he spent 15 years at EDG Energy as a financial controller as well as in principal business partner and programme manager roles in pension change, finance, IT and shared services.

At the end of September, we welcomed Sophia Harrison back to the Punter Southall group of companies. Sophia is an experienced investment consultant with a broad range of experience with a strong focus on ESG investing. She joined from Insight Asset Management where she was responsible for relationships with large institutional investors. She also worked at Barnett Waddingham and Cardano in roles including senior investment consultant within fiduciary and advisory governance models, liability driven investment (LDI) portfolio manager and LDI manager researcher. Like Sasha and David, Sophia will be taking on professional trustee appointments.

We also welcomed Mindaugas Pranaitis to our technology and marketing team. Mindaugas is responsible for supporting our technical manager and the PSGS team by becoming a super-user of the technology we use. He’ll play a key role in getting new technology developed and rolled out, creating websites for our pension scheme clients and video content for our own website and social media pages.

They’re all great additions to our team who you’ll be hearing more from soon. We’re certainly enjoying working with them!

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