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BESTrustees joins Professional Pensions expert panel on buy-in and buy-out24/09/2026
At the beginning of July, Professional Pensions assembled a panel of experts to look at the journey from buy-in to buyout and member experience. The roundtable, chaired by PP editor Jonathan Stapleton and held in association with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC), examined two of the most active themes in the pension risk transfer market – the often complex journey schemes take from buy-in to buyout, and the member experience both during that transition and after buyout. The panel concluded representatives of most off the major professional indedendent trustee firms; BESTrustees was represented by Alan Pickering CBE. Click here for the …
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BESTrustees responds to the Pensions Regulator’s corporate strategy consultation08/06/2026
BESTrustees, one of the longest established professional pension trustee companies operating in the UK, is pleased to respond to the Pensions Regulator’s corporate strategy consultation.
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Getting CDC right: the role of effective trusteeship26/05/2026
In a new paper from BESTrustees, professional trustee Paul Brice looks at CDC schemes, a developing area of the pensions landscape that many commentators believe may fill a gap between the decline of open DB schemes and prospective pensions inadequacy issues with individual DC or personal pension arrangements.
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BESTrustees response to the DWP consultation06/03/2026
We are delighted to have had the opportunity to respond to the Department for Work and Pensions’ consultation regarding trust-based pension scheme trusteeship and governance.
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Raising professional trustee standards as TPR plans oversight18/09/2025
An interesting article in Pensions Expert from Andy Boorman, BESTrustees’ director and member of the Society of Pensions Professionals, in which he explains the importance of the regulator’s work on trusteeship and how independence and lack of conflicts can raise standards in professional trustee work. As a profession, we must engage fully with the regulator’s review of oversight in the professional trustee industry and work to define a template for professional trusteeship which serves all stakeholders well. At the heart of everything has to be the overarching principle of independence in our conduct and decision-making in order to secure good …
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Why Independence Matters in Pensions28/06/2024
There are real concerns in the wider industry about the consolidation in the number of independent trustee firms, especially where those firms deliver many different governance and scheme services to a scheme without appropriate checks and balances.
