Appointments: Sackers, TPT, Standard Life, PASA, GAD

Specialist pensions law firm Sackers has made two appointments to its team supporting trustees.

Polly Ehrman joins as an associate director from Morrison Foerster. She has significant experience in derivatives and finance, and will focus on areas including bulk annuities, collateral and custody arrangements, securities lending and alternative assets.

Meanwhile, Emma Scott has also joined Sackers as an associate, having previously worked at Clifford Chance. In her new role, Scott will advise trustees on areas including alternative funding solutions, pooled fund arrangements and secondary transfers.

David Saunders, senior partner at Sackers, signalled the law firm’s intent to continue to recruit lawyers to “ensure that we remain the first choice for legal support in the pensions and retirement savings industry”.

TPT adds DC distribution specialist

TPT Retirement Solutions has continued its recent recruitment drive with the hire of Adam Tudor as head of DC distribution.

Tudor joins from Smart Pension, where he was head of business development. He has held similar positions at NOW: Pensions and HSBC’s retirement services business.

In his new role, TPT said Tudor would oversee the company’s growth in the DC space as it positions itself as a consolidator and looks to launch a dedicated DC proposition later this year.

Standard Life creates new role for Ambery

Standard Life, part of Phoenix Group, has appointed Mike Ambery to the newly created role of retirement savings director with effect from 26 February.

Ambery will lead on the delivery of Standard Life’s thought leadership programmes and act as spokesperson for the business in the media, as well as the company’s research initiatives.

He joins from Hymans Robertson, where he was a partner and DC consultant. He has also worked at KPMG and the Co-operative Insurance Society.

PASA promotes operations director

The Pensions Administration Standards Association (PASA) has promoted Lucy Collett to operations director.

She has been a board executive at the association for eight years, and was previously held industry roles including administration manager and DC oversight manager.

Kim Gubler, PASA chair, said Collett’s new role was “key” to the organisation as it continues to grow.

“There are many moving pieces and it’s imperative PASA’s voice and message is consistent, clear and strong both internally and externally,” Gubler said. “Through her management and coordination of our multi-disciplinary committees and working groups, we will be able to better deliver on our central objective of improving people’s retirement outcomes through raising administration standards across the pensions industry.”

Government Actuary’s Department expands admin team

The Government Actuary’s Department (GAD) has added to its pensions administration consultancy team in response to “increased client demand”, it announced this week.

New appointments have grown the team to eight specialists, GAD said, all with “significant pensions administration experience at a management, technical or operational level”.

GAD’s administration team helps public sector organisations with the procurement and transition of administration providers, quality assurance, data and pensions dashboard work among other areas.