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An experienced Scheme Secretary acts as a central point of coordination across Trustees, advisers and stakeholders, helping to ensure meetings run effectively, actions are progressed and governance processes remain on track.
Flexible to the needs of your scheme and Trustee Board, we can provide interim, co-sourced or fully outsourced support. Every appointment is backed by IGG’s wider team, providing continuity and access to specialist expertise when it is needed.
Scheme Secretarial, governance and other appointments.
Experienced governance professionals, backed by the breadth and specialist expertise of the wider IGG team.
The scheme secretary runs the governance of a pension scheme’s trustee board. They are not a trustee and they do not make the board’s decisions- instead they make the board’s decision-making possible: organising its meetings, managing its calendar, coordinating its advisers, and maintaining the record that proves the board did its job. If the trustees are the brain of the scheme, the secretary is the nervous system.
Our Scheme Secretarial and governance services are flexible for your needs and can be structured to either compliment the resource you have or take full responsibility for your secretarial and governance services.
We can cover day-to-day meeting management, agendas and papers, action tracking, adviser and stakeholder co-ordination and annual governance planning. We can also support General Code and ORA activity, governance reviews, improvement programmes and strategic governance projects.
Additional governance support can help during recruitment gaps, internal restructuring, increased workloads or major/complex strategic projects. It can also provide additional capacity where your Trustee Board is responding to greater regulatory requirements, strengthening its governance model or looking to build greater resilience into its arrangements.
No. Our support is flexible. We can provide interim Scheme Secretarial support, work alongside your existing pensions or governance team on a co-sourced basis, or provide a fully outsourced Scheme Secretarial and governance service tailored to your Trustee Board.
Outsourcing gives you access to experienced governance professionals without a lengthy recruitment process. You also benefit from the breadth of experience in IGG’s wider team, helping maintain continuity, retain governance knowledge and provide access to additional specialist expertise when you need it.
Yes. Our support can be adapted to provide enhancements alongside our ongoing support, and includes governance reviews and improvement programmes including:
We provide specialist expertise and additional capacity, helping Trustee Boards build resilient, effective and proportionate governance frameworks that support their long-term objectives.
£3bn scheme with 25,000 members
Scheme-specific Risk Register developed
Proactive risk monitoring strengthened
A large DB scheme wanted to transform its high-level Risk Register into a more practical, Scheme-specific governance tool to improve Trustee oversight and decision-making.
£650m scheme with 5,000 members
Previously undocumented risks identified
Scheme-specific Risk Register developed
A DB scheme needed to update its outdated Risk Register as part of its ESOG review, with limited internal capacity to undertake the work.
As governance demands rise, how can trustees use the ORA as a practical, proportionate tool to support better decision-making.
Trustee Manager, Ellie Rowe, shares her first thoughts on the ORA and its impact on governance.
How to prepare and what needs to be done for TPR's new code of practice ORA.
Our experienced Scheme Secretaries and governance professionals are on hand to discuss your Trustee Board’s needs and the level of support that’s right for your scheme.
Trustee Director
Head of Outsourced Governance Services
Associate Director
Deputy Head of Outsourced Governance Services
Trustee Manager
Outsourced Governance Services
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