What Do You Enjoy Most About Your Role
The fact that no day is the same and there is always a fresh challenge. Working collaboratively with trustees, the wider advisory team and sponsors to overcome sometimes quite daunting problems is incredibly rewarding.
Interests Outside of Work
I have always enjoyed team sports and particularly Football, Cricket and Hockey. Whilst I still play cricket (mainly for teams that struggle to get players), unfortunately, nowadays my effort tends to outweigh achievement on the cricket field. I love music and also like painting when time allows.
Top Achievement To Date
From a work perspective, helping a distressed scheme get to a position where it has a fighting chance of meeting its obligations.
Roger Cooper
Director and Professional Trustee
- London, UK
Roger has over thirty-five years of experience in the benefits industry. An Accredited Trustee through the Association of Professional Pension Trustees Roger is also a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI), an Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, and is a regular speaker at industry events.
Roger is the Chair of Pi Pension Trustees corporate board and is a non-executive director on the Pi Partnership’s main board where he is able to share his extensive experience of both Pi Partnership and the wider trustee market. He continues to attend industry events on behalf of Pi where his knowledge of the wider market brings significant value to any event. A passionate supporter of the importance of environmental factors on investing, he was one of the earlier members of Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) where he represented the views of smaller schemes.
As Chair of Pi’s Corporate Trustee board, he has oversight of all of Pi’s trustee appointments and provides leadership as our Sole Trustee proposition evolves. Highly supportive of TPR’s focus on increasing professionalism in professional trustee firms he brings experience of working closely with TPR on complex schemes as well as supporting Jo Holden in her role as Head of Trusteeship to continue to grow Pi’s trustee appointments.
Roger continues to provide Professional Trustee services to a small number of appointments where his expertise across defined benefit and defined contribution schemes, coupled with a collaborative approach and commercial awareness makes him a valued member of a Trustee Board. This includes helping address conflicts of interest, dealing with the impact of scheme mergers and corporate restructuring as well managing complex valuations.
