Laura McMinigal

Trustee Manager | Outsourced Governance Services

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Laura is an experienced pensions professional with over a decade of experience working with occupational pension schemes and trustee boards.

Since joining the pensions industry in 2014, she has developed extensive expertise in pensions governance, trustee secretariat services, scheme operations, project management and regulatory compliance.

Laura has worked with schemes of varying sizes and complexities across a broad range of governance and administration projects.

She is known for building strong relationships with trustees, advisers and sponsoring employers, helping to deliver collaborative and effective outcomes.

As a Trustee Manager, Laura works closely with trustee boards to deliver effective governance and support strategic decision-making. She leads the planning and delivery of trustee business plans, coordinates board and committee meetings, oversees governance and regulatory compliance activities, and manages a wide range of scheme projects. Laura is focused on ensuring schemes operate efficiently, meet regulatory requirements and achieve their long-term objectives.

I wanted to put on record my thanks to Laura for the super facilitation of the meeting today and bringing in the best practices and shared learning from the IGG team. Laura quickly established a good rapport with the trustee board and is super responsive to trustee queries and action requests. This will all be of great benefit to Trustee board governance going forward as the agenda, regulation, legislation and opportunities continue to evolve. It’s great to know the Plan is in extremely capable hands going forward.

Director, Pensions & Benefits £1.2bn scheme

  • Administration and operational reviews
  • Administration transitions
  • Data and benefit remediation exercises
  • Governance improvement initiatives
  • Residual risk due diligence ahead of insurance transactions
  • Scheme mergers
  • Started in pensions administration in 2014 at Xafinity (now XPS).
  • Moved to KPMG (now Isio), with a dual role as both a manager on the Operational Excellence in Pensions Team and the Governance Team.
  • Led a variety of different projects across a range of schemes of different sizes – including administration reviews, data and benefit rectification projects, due diligence ahead of insurance transactions, scheme merger and tender exercises etc.
  • Provided scheme secretarial services, which included: co-ordination of Trustee Meetings, preparation of agenda, monitored completion of agreed action points, ensured legislative and regulatory requirements were met, maintained scheme governance documentation and enabled the smooth-running of the scheme.
  • Understands clients needs and creates strong relationships with stakeholders.
  • Completed The Pension Regulator’s Trustee Toolkit.
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