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Kate Hardingham

Chief Risk Officer

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Kate is the Chief Risk Officer at IGG and leads our Data Integrity Team. She employs a risk-balanced approach to decision making which she brings to her scheme work.

Kate is an experienced professional trustee known for her collegiate and commercial approach. Kate has a wide portfolio of schemes, where assets under management range in size from £1.5m to £10bn+.

Kate drives strong and effective governance whilst delivering strategic, thoughtful leadership. She works collaboratively with her fellow trustees and sponsors building engagement and commitment, investing time with her trustee boards, sponsors and other stakeholders as well as advisers. This ensures there is a clear strategy for each of her schemes and cementing a long-lasting relationship with her fellow trustees.

Kate is a fully accredited professional pension scheme trustee by the Association of Professional Pension Trustees and an accredited trustee with the Pensions Management Institute. Kate is also a qualified lawyer and has specialised in pensions law since qualifying in 2001.

“Kate provides thoughtful, balanced and commercial trusteeship. Kate excels at bringing together other trustees, employers and advisers helping pensions projects run smoothly and efficiently. She is skilled at asking the right questions at the right time, and identifying what are the key issues that need to be addressed. Kate is great to work with, open, friendly and highly organised.”
Partner, Law Firm

• Adviser reviews
• Alternatives to buy out (e.g. consolidators, capital backed journey plans etc)
• Buy-ins
• Buy-outs
• Closure to future accrual projects
• Corporate events eg insolvency & restructuring
• Interaction with TPR
• Liability management exercises, e.g. PIEs, WULS, trivial lump sum exercises
• Member comms
• Mentoring lay trustees
• Overseas parent company
• Scheme governance
• Scheme mergers/de-mergers
• Scheme wind up

  • Significant experience of working collaboratively with Trustee Boards and sponsoring employers with adversarial relationships
  • Works with a number of trustee boards, in a diverse range of circumstances, to implement and monitor long-term strategies
  • Works with many schemes to understand and comply with new governance requirements
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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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