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Amanda Asante

Trustee Director | Head of Administration

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Amanda has 20 years’ experience in the pensions industry with a background in Pensions Management, Trustee Secretarial, Administration and Governance. She has worked both in-house (including for a FTSE 100 Company) and within major Third-Party Administrators.

Amanda’s recent experience includes managing in-house administration team, responsible for day to day administration of a £1bn+ DB pension scheme, a £100m+ DC pension scheme (held under Master Trust) as well as various medical and life assurance policies. She was also Scheme Secretary and governance lead for the £1bn+ DB pension Scheme and sat on corporate Pension & Benefits Governance Board for all other benefits. During this time, she sat on and chaired the Administration and Governance sub-committees.

Amanda has experience working with both DB and DC Trustee Boards on all aspects of day to day pension scheme management as well as a range of complex matters such as ETV exercises, Master Trust Selection, movement to a Fiduciary Management model, GMP reconciliation and equalisation, Flexible Apportionment Agreements, outsourcing of administration providers, adviser reviews, tender exercises and implementation of automatic enrolment.

Amanda has a strong focus on good governance and uses this as a method to reduce the operational risk of Trustee Boards. She combines this with an excellent technical understanding of administration, member matters, communications and benefit calculations. Due to the nature of her in-house experience, she brings a unique view from both sides of the table (Trustee and Employer) and helps to pull these two views together to reach a common goal. Her strengths include project management, risk review, compliance, relationship management, attention to detail and problem solving.

Amanda is a fully-accredited professional trustee with the Association of Professional Pension Trustees.

“Since supporting our scheme, Independent Governance Group (IGG), have assisted the Trustees in bringing a greater degree of structure and governance to our meetings. With her expertise and experience Amanda is able to “join the dots” and has gone above and beyond on multiple occasions to identify and recommend solutions to issues, ensuring both compliance and a great member experience. Amanda is approachable, available and able to share pragmatic guidance considering both Trustee and Company perspectives to provide well considered advice.”
Global Head of Total Rewards & Mobility, UK Pension Scheme

  • Adviser Review
  • Closure to future accrual projects
  • DB & DC experience
  • Interaction with TPR
  • Member Communications
  • Scheme Governance
  • Scheme Mergers/De-Mergers
  • Scheme Secretarial
  • Transfer to Master Trust
  • Led in-house administration team for both DB, DC and risk benefit administration for a FTSE £1bn+ pension scheme, and led member communications
  • Leads Single Code of Practice team for IGG which has started the process for over 75% of our schemes
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Independent Governance Group ("IGG") is the trading name of Ross Trustees Services Limited (07904277), Independent Trustee Services Limited (02567540), Independent Trustee Limited (02473669), Clarity Trustees Limited (12470917), Leadenhall Independent Trustees Limited (02303944) all registered in England and Wales. Registered office address: 4th Floor Cannon Place, 78 Cannon Street, London EC4N 6HL. IC Select Limited (SC331180). Registered office address: DWF LLP, 103 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 7BW.

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