Annabelle Hardiman

Annabelle is head of Professional Corporate Sole Trustee (“PCST”) services at IGG.

She has a ten-year background working in pensions, initially as Pensions Manager and Scheme Secretary, and now also acts as a professional trustee across a number of schemes. As such, she has a strong focus on good governance and uses this as a method to reduce the operational risk of Trustee Boards.

With a keen eye for detail, Annabelle ensures any complex information is presented in a clear, concise and logical manner to help trustees when making decisions that impact their scheme and its members.

Annabelle seeks to build strong relationships with all stakeholders, including trustees, sponsoring employers and all third-party service providers, to ensure the timely provision of information and thereby facilitate effective and efficient decision-making by the Trustee Board.

Annabelle has experience in both defined benefit and defined contribution arrangements, and both single-employer and multi-employer arrangements. This includes the use of master trusts, where Annabelle has extensive knowledge of the DC master trust authorisation regime. Annabelle is PRINCE 2 qualified and uses this to oversee various projects including DC bulk transfers, DB buy-ins and other de-risking initiatives.

As part of her role as Head of PCST, Annabelle is responsible for ensuring IGG is at the forefront of innovation in this space. As part of this, she led the development of IGGnite, specifically created for smaller schemes.

Annabelle is an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute and fully-accredited as a professional trustee by the Association of Professional Pension Trustees.