Independent Pension Scheme Trustee

Experience peace of mind with our Independent Pension Scheme Trustee services, ensuring your scheme not only meets any regulatory requirements but also works proactively in your best interests. With over 20 years of industry experience, we deliver strong oversight, strategic advice, and a client/member-first approach to governance. Find out more about independent professional trustees here.

As one of the UK’s leading providers of independent pension scheme trustee services, over 60% of our trustee appointments are made through our highly trusted sole trustee service. Let Pi Partnership help you navigate the complexities of pension management with confidence. Discover how we can support your scheme today.

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What is a Pension Trustee?

A pension trustee plays a crucial role in safeguarding the financial future of a scheme’s members, ensuring their benefits are secure and well-managed. Whether an individual or a professional trustee company, the main role of an independent pension scheme trustee is to make sure the scheme acts in line with legal and regulatory guidelines, whilst also working in the best interests of the beneficiaries.

Key responsibilities of an independent pension scheme trustee include:

  • Regulatory Compliance: Ensuring the scheme adheres to The Pensions Regulator’s (TPR) guidelines and meets all legal obligations.
  • Protecting Members’ Benefits: Overseeing and managing scheme assets to guarantee security and sustainability.
  • Risk Management: Identifying and addressing financial, operational, and compliance-related risks before they become challenges.
  • Impartial Stewardship: Acting independently and fairly to uphold the scheme’s long-term viability and members’ best interests.

With the right trustees in place, pension schemes can thrive with strong governance, strategic oversight and commitment to members’ financial well-being.

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Why Choose Pi Partnership as your Independent Pension Scheme Trustee

Finding new trustees is becoming increasingly difficult, with many non-professional trustees stepping away due to the tighter regulations and serious penalties introduced by the Pension Schemes Act 2021. As compliance demands grow, ensuring your scheme is in the right hands has never been more critical. 

At Pi Partnership, we bring over 20 years of industry experience, offering a trusted, knowledgeable approach to pension scheme trusteeship. Our experience spans multiple sectors, meaning we understand the unique challenges different industries face and deliver precise, complaint and forward-thinking governance.

Our team is dedicated to staying ahead of evolving pension legislation, providing tailored solutions that not only meet compliance requirements but also support the long-term security of your scheme. We can take the complexity out of trusteeship for you.

The Advantage of Appointing an Independent Pension Scheme Trustee

As the pension landscape continues to evolve, ensuring your scheme is fully compliant, well-managed, and tailored to your unique needs is more important than ever. Appointing an independent pension scheme trustee brings expertise, efficiency, and strategic oversight, helps you stay ahead of regulatory changes, whilst optimising scheme performance.

Get Started With Independent Pension Scheme Trustee Services

Ready to enhance your pension scheme with expert governance and strategic oversight? Get in touch with our friendly and knowledgeable team of independent pension scheme trustees here at Pi Partnership – your independent trustee company. Whether you need guidance, support or a full governance solution, we’re here to help. We can tailor our expertise to your unique needs and ensure the best possible future for your pension scheme. To get started with our independent trustee services or to find out more, complete our form below or call us on 020 8879 6500.

Diversity

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone has different needs, and we support this balance offering true flexibility in how our people manage their time and fully support part time working and a family friendly approach.

Communication

Communication

We believe in clear and transparent communication and create regular opportunities for internal communication. Our regular business updates and opportunities to input into the business ensures everyone feels part of the team and on the same page at Pi, ensuring our hybrid working model is effective regardless of where you are based.

Development

Development

Nurturing every Pi Person is important to us and we want to ensure everyone has the opportunity for continued professional development by providing the space to do this alongside client commitments. Everyone has an individual Personal Development Plan catered to them, whether they are on the start of their journey with Pi or those looking at ways to transition into the next stage of their careers.

Everyone has the opportunity for a regular development and progression review and everyone has ownership over their own development with input and guidance of senior member of the team where required.

We provide regular opportunities to share knowledge amongst our teams through Lunch Time Learn in sessions and actively encourage involvement and participation into this.

Culture

Culture

We are an open, friendly and supportive team who thrive in a flexible and autonomous environment. Our people are trusted to get on with things, adding value and individual contribution, whilst maintaining a good work life balance and ideally having fun along the way.

We want to ensure we cultivate our special culture and our focus is to maintain our exceptional engagement levels. We are proud to have been awarded the Sunday Times Best Place to Work for small businesses in 2023 and 2024, and also in 2025 after moving to the medium-sized business category.

Employee Owned

Employee Owned

Our employee ownership structure is central to our philosophy of making sure every Pi Person is part of our success story, contributing to how we run the business, and sharing in the profits. We know that being successful is not just down to numbers, it’s about our people who all contribute in their unique way to our success and creating a working environment where everyone has a voice.

Visit Us

2nd Floor Tuition House, 27-37 St. George’s Road, Wimbledon, London, SW19 4EU

Email Us

enquiries@pipg.co.uk

our team

Amanda Burden

Director and Governance Specialist

Amanda is a Board Director of Pi Partnership Group and leads the development of Pi’s services. She works closely with clients, the Pi team and professional advisers to ensure all of Pi’s services meet the changing needs of the pension market and deliver clear value to Pi’s clients.

Amanda has over twenty-five years’ experience in the pensions industry and, as well as ensuring Pi’s services continue to meet the needs of our clients in a rapidly changing pension landscape, is also a member of Pi’s Executive Management Team. She provides specialist project management for clients on a range of services, including adviser selection and review, trustee board assessment and governance design.

As well as being a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and Chair of the PMI London Group, Amanda holds PMI certificates in Pensions Automatic Enrolment and DC Governance, was a past Prince2 practitioner and is a Certified Risk Management Practitioner.

What do you most enjoy about your role:  Successfully delivering complex projects and creating a happy team environment.

Interests outside work: Travel, theatre and as part of Abundance London helping create beautiful spaces in urban settings.

Top achievement to date: Competing in the 2005/06 Round the World Clipper race.