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We act as independent professional trustees to corporate pension schemes and non-pensions trusts. We work closely with our clients to deliver good outcomes for scheme members and employers.
Our ethos is to be pragmatic, professional and personable. We want to help you identify and meet your strategic objectives for your scheme. We value flexibility and will work collaboratively with all stakeholders to ensure good outcomes for members and sponsors alike.
If you want to know if your service provider will be around long enough to service your pension scheme, ask them how they propose to adapt, says Richard Butcher, managing director of PTL.
Richard Butcher, managing director of PTL talks about his bugbear in any investment mandate but particularly a fiduciary one, that it is rarely clear who is involved.
Barely a month goes by without one of the trade papers publishing the headline that the combined pension deficit of the U.K.s largest companies has shot up/dropped (delete as appropriate) by some incredibly large number.
The terms "value for money" – monitored by IGCs for workplace pensions – and "good value" – assessed by trustees of occupational pensions – are not defined in legislation.
In my blog The investment costs map: where costs can occur in the investment process, I described where and when pension investment co
I've been involved with trustees and trustee boards for 27 years, but the other day, I experienced a first.
Most trustee decisions are routine and nothing much to get excited about.
In my blog "The investment costs map: where costs can occur in the investment process" I described where and when pension in
In 2016 the Bernard Matthews pension scheme started heading towards the PPF. This followed a corporate takeover that excluded the pension scheme.