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Business continuity at Pi Partnership Group

COVID-19 – 17 March 2020 Business continuity at Pi Partnership Group Why Is a Pension Scheme Adviser Review Important? We are closely monitoring developments regarding coronavirus and are doing everything we can to maintain our service to our clients and protect our people. Continuing to support our clients is central to our contingency planning and we are focused as a team on ensuring we are able to maintain the quality of our service. We currently have a number of measures within Pi to ensure that we have full business continuity when dealing with a wide variety of significant events (such as the possible impacts of coronavirus), and these are tested regularly as part of our Disaster Recovery Plan. We have recently invested heavily in our IT and telecommunications systems and our team can securely access all data and systems remotely whilst following our established and accredited business processes, ensuring the

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The challenges of Self-Sufficiency

The challenges of Self-Sufficiency The self-sufficiency approach regarding pensions occurs when pension schemes reach a certain threshold in relation to assets that enables them to feasibly sustain themselves solely by investing such assets. In doing so, they rely less on funding from sponsors. However, there are certain obstacles that need to be overcome for pension schemes to be successfully self-sufficient. We look at the main self-sufficiency challenges that are often experienced within the pensions industry. Limiting Risks Limiting risks involves balancing pension scheme assets, to ensure that they are invested in a way which minimises risks to the pension scheme’s investment portfolio. This is particularly pertinent for those aiming for self-sufficiency, particularly as we approach cash negative scenarios as they will be trying to establish ‘what are the most effective investments for capitalising on income needs?’ and ‘how can we maximise investment gains?’ By focusing on these objective questions, pension

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Amanda joins a panel of experts – for the latest edition of People Management

Amanda joins a panel of experts – for the latest edition of People Management We are delighted to see our colleague Amanda joining a panel of experts to answer readers’ questions on pensions in the latest edition of People Management – please click link below below for all your pension questions answered: https://www.peoplemanagement.co.uk/long-reads/articles/all-your-pensions-questions-answered If you have any questions or queries about our services, get in touch with our team today. Have a question? Contact us on 020 8879 6500 or enquiries@pipg.co.uk Get In Touch

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Pi Consulting & IC Select Team-Up For Innovative Manager Selection Service

Pi Consulting & IC Select Team-Up For Innovative Manager Selection Service Pi Consulting and IC Select team-up for innovative manager selection service Pi Consulting is launching a new service together with IC Select to provide advice and support to pension schemes tendering fiduciary management mandates as a response to the Competition and Markets Authority Review (CMA Review).  This new partnership brings together the trustee knowledge, tendering experience and investment knowledge of Pi Consulting with the market-leading fiduciary management research of IC Select to create a cost-effective selection service within a robust governance framework. The CMA Review of the investment consultant and fiduciary management market requires a mandatory competitive tender before appointing a fiduciary manager. This applies not only to new fiduciary mandates but also to any mandates already awarded where a competitive tender was not completed.  As a result, it is estimated that over 300 mandates already in place will have to

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Pi Trustees acquires Fairfield Trustees

Pi Trustees acquires Fairfield Trustees Pi Consulting (Trustee Services) Ltd is delighted to announce the purchase of Fairfield Pension Trustees Ltd. Roger Cooper, Head of Trusteeship at Pi said “This acquisition complements our existing trustee company, increases our geographical coverage and demonstrates our commitment to the independent trustee market.  We are delighted to welcome the team at Fairfield  to  Pi and have no doubt that the integrity and highest possible standards of professionalism demonstrated by Fairfield as Trustees will make Jenny Croxall and Sarah Marshall invaluable additions to the Pi team.  We are also pleased to confirm that Robert Garvin will be assisting us with the changes and enable us to benefit from his knowledge and long-standing relationships. If you have any questions or queries about our services, get in touch with our team today. Have a question? Contact us on 020 8879 6500 or enquiries@pipg.co.uk Get In Touch

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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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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.