Client feedback

“I found the trustee training really beneficial, highly recommended. I am not a trustee, I represent the employer and I think it will be valuable for me in future, having a better understanding of the trustees' perspective.”
Dave Strain,
Royal Yachting Association
“When requesting information by email, I have noticed that there is 'out of hours activity' to answer me. I regard this as a stand out 'above and beyond' - impressed.”
“Excellent service - as expected and why PSGS was chosen.”
Stuart Barker ,
Independent Occupational Pensions Consultant, RSPCA
“In any major corporate transaction, time is of the essence. PSGS's pragmatic commercial approach helped us manage the pensions aspects of our group re-structure to ensure a positive outcome for all parties. ”
David Wilman,
CFO at Survitec Group
“PSGS were overall more professional than others.”
Paul Staniland,
Kier
“I wanted to look at the effectiveness of our trustee board, so Gillian, our PSGS scheme secretary, provided their trustee self-assessment tool to help me gather thoughts and opinions from others on the board. The tool was extremely easy to use and asked all the right questions to help me collect the information I needed as Trustee Chair. It is a great example of the way PSGS shares knowledge with their clients and makes dealing with key governance issues easy. As well as enabling me to meet one of the Regulator’s 21st century trusteeship requirements, using the tool has flagged trustee training needs and ways we could improve trustee meetings further. ”
Claire Silvester,
Vector Aerospace
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Trustee executive services for pension schemes

An effective pension trustee board is one that can focus on strategy and governance.


We help pension trustees by looking after all day-to-day activities, effectively managing trustee priorities and ensuring your pension plan runs smoothly. We do this through:

  • improving efficiency
  • sharing our expertise and market knowledge
  • ensuring operational excellence
  • cost effective delivery

The pension trustee support role is increasingly outsourced to a specialist like PSGS Secretarial Services. We tailor our trustee executive services to meet the needs of each pension scheme, providing expert support by:

  • delivering exceptional management of trustee meetings
  • proactive forward planning and prioritisation of actions to maximise efficiency
  • building effective relationships with pension trustees and other key stakeholders
  • providing specialist advice on pension scheme governance and operational matters
  • keeping pension trustees up to date with legal and regulatory changes
  • maintaining compliance with comprehensive policies and procedures
  • ensuring transparency on actual expenditure against agreed budgets

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Case study

We have provided trustee executive services for a client with several pension schemes managed by a common trustee board - a mixture of defined benefit (DB), hybrid and defined contribution (DC) with 17,000 members and over £1.5bn assets in total.

By becoming an integral part of the pension scheme trustee board, we deliver a highly valued personal service and enable the trustees to:

  • focus time on their most important strategic priorities
  • plan ahead and adapt smoothly to future changes
  • avoid getting involved in unnecessary operational detail
  • ensure transparency and cost efficient of adviser services

    • Read the full case study

To find out more about how our trustee executive services can support your pension scheme or existing in-house team,why not contact us?

Speak direct to our specialist in this area
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Clare Owen

Director of Outsourced Pension Services
Email Clare
Or call us on:

0845 313 0024

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How effective is your pension trustee board?

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