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Independent Trustee Services

For Independent Trustee Services that you can rely on, choose Pi Partnership

At Pi Partnership, we provide expert independent trustee services designed to ensure robust governance, full regulatory compliance, and proactive risk management for your scheme. Large or small and whether you oversee a Defined Benefit (DB) or Defined Contribution (DC) scheme, our team brings decades of industry expertise to guide you through every step, ensuring your scheme operates efficiently and in your best interests.

We take pride in our strong reputation within the pensions industry, acting with independence, transparency, and integrity in everything we do. By choosing our tailored independent trustee services, you benefit from conflict-free decision-making, enhanced scheme security, and strategic long-term planning that protects both members and sponsors.

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The Impact of Independent Trustee Services

Navigating the complexities of pension scheme management requires deep legal, regulatory, and financial expertise. Having in place independent trustee services, ensures full compliance with The Pensions Regulator’s (TPR) standards, while also driving strategic decision making to safeguard scheme assets and member benefits.

  • Proactive Risk Management: We take a forward-thinking approach to risk identification and mitigation, ensuring greater scheme stability and transparency.
  • Unbiased and conflict-free governance: Our independent trustee services operate with total neutrality, balancing the interests of both sponsors and members to maintain the integrity of your scheme.
  • Future-proof compliance: The pensions landscape is constantly evolving. Our team here at Pi Partnership work hard to stay ahead of legislative changes to ensure your scheme remains compliant and well-prepared for future challenges.

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Our Independent Trustee Services

Through our team of experienced pension professionals, we can offer a range of independent trustee services that are tailored to the unique requirements of your scheme:

Professional Trusteeship – With over 20 years of experience, our trustees bring expertise across actuarial science, law, investment, human resources, and business management. Together, we provide over 200 years of collective pension experience, ensuring schemes operate with strong governance and strategic oversight.

Sole Trustee Services – For organisations struggling to maintain a full trustee board, we offer a Sole Trustee service, providing a cost-effective governance solution, without compromising compliance or decision-making efficiency.

Trustee Executive Services – We support UK Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution pension schemes by providing independent Trustee Executive Services. We focus on governance and scheme secretary positions, ensuring that trustee boards have the necessary structures, processes, and operations to comply with regulations and fulfil scheme goals.

Chair of Trustee Services – Our professional Chair of Trustee services provide strong leadership, strategic direction, and governance expertise, helping trustees navigate challenges and achieve their long-term objectives.

Contact our team today to get started! We are happy to walk you through our independent trustee services in more detail and help determine what the best plan is for you.

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Why Choose Pi Partnership as your Independent Trustee?

Partnering with Pi Partnership means working with an experienced team of professionals, dedicated to the highest standards of pension scheme governance. Here’s what sets us apart:

Our trustees bring vast expertise in pensions, finance, law, and risk management.

We proactively track industry regulations, ensuring full compliance for your scheme.

We act with impartiality and integrity, prioritising the security and long-term success of your scheme.

We customise our services to meet the specific needs of your pension scheme, delivering optimal outcomes.

We have successfully guided numerous schemes through governance challenges, risk management, and long-term funding strategy development. Please do take the time to read our testimonials.

Get Started with our Independent Trustee Services

Looking for independent trustee services that you can trust? Get in touch with Pi Partnership today. Our team is ready to offer guidance, discuss your scheme’s specific needs, and provide a tailored governance solution that ensures long-term security and compliance. 

Ensure your pension scheme is managed with expertise, the utmost integrity and strategic foresight – Pi Partnership: Your Trusted Independent Trustee Partner.

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.

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020 8879 6500

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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.