All Association of Professional Pension Trustees articles – Page 2

  • News

    PMI launches accreditation course for professional trustees

    2020-02-17T00:00:00Z

    On the go: The Pensions Management Institute has launched its course for professional trustees seeking accreditation, after an apparent split with the Association of Professional Pension Trustees.

  • Podcasts

    Podcast: Improving the quality of professional trustees

    2019-03-11T00:00:00Z

    Podcast: Last month, the Professional Trustee Standards Working Group published a set of new standards, which all professional trustees will be expected to meet. The group is also due to launch an associated accreditation framework later this year. In this episode of the PE podcast, Rachel Croft, director at Independent Trustee Services, explains what these new standards mean for schemes, how they will improve professional trustee quality, and whether increasing professionalisation and rising workloads could lead to the extinction of the lay trustee. 

  • News

    Professional trustee standards created to encourage better practices

    2019-03-05T00:00:00Z

    The introduction of formal standards for professional trustees has been welcomed as a vital step in improving scheme governance, but concerns remain over whether the framework is robust enough.

  • Tim Middleton
    Opinion

    Regulator must work with industry on professional trustee standards

    2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

    Both the Pensions Regulator and industry working groups are seeking to define the responsibilities and standards expected of professional trustees. If they do not achieve consistency, writes the Pensions Management Institute’s Tim Middleton, it will be hard to justify their implementation.

  • Features

    Can you run your scheme better than a sole trustee?

    2018-02-21T00:00:00Z

    Analysis: Defined benefit trustee boards are finding it increasingly difficult to source a full complement of member-nominated trustees, as final salary becomes a legacy benefit system. Is the rise of the sole corporate trustee inevitable?

  • News

    Seven in 10 professional trustees want standards body

    2017-11-07T00:00:00Z

    Professional trustees have called for a body to set standards and monitor performance in the industry, but experts have cautioned against any measure that threatens the level of cognitive diversity on trustee boards.

  • Opinion

    What defines a professional trustee?

    2017-06-16T00:00:00Z

    Laura Clarke from law firm CMS gives tips on what to look for in a professional trustee in the absence of a regulatory requirement for qualification.