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Musings | 16 Jun 2025

Getting the most out of the Own Risk Assessment (ORA)

With ORAs now underway, Rosanne shares tips on what’s required in the ORA and how to go about completing it. For those who haven’t yet started, it’s helpful to understand what the ORA covers and what Trustees are asked to assess and evidence from a governance and risk management perspective.

Musings | 16 Jun 2025

How do you decide between in-house versus outsourced pensions management?

In the last edition of Muse News, Ellen looked at the role of the pensions manager, which has become significantly more demanding. With the increasing weight of project work, such as dashboards, GMP work and end-game journey planning, alongside business-as-usual activities, managing resource and key person risk is critical. Ellen takes a deeper dive into factors that should be considered when looking at in-house versus outsourced pensions management – cost, managing risks, sustainability and flexibility.

Musings | 16 Jun 2025

Navigating an evolving landscape

We recently held a roundtable with a small group of pensions leaders with a mix of trustee and corporate roles, with the discussion focusing on run-on, surplus and buy-out. This article provides a summary of challenges and opportunities in a pensions landscape that continues to evolve. Although the Pension Schemes Bill provides a little more clarity for companies and schemes on some of the challenges discussed at the roundtable, many of the observations remain pertinent.

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Evalinde Eelens

Senior Associate
PV 530

Pamjit Virdi

Consultant
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Tom Oakley

Consultant
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Robert Plumb

Senior Associate
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Hana Bailey

Senior Consultant
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Jo Fellowes

Director
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Barry Mack

Director
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Katy Wilkinson

Consultant
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Robyn Cowan

Consultant
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Geoff Francis

Senior Consultant
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Liza Sinclair

Senior Consultant
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Daniel Jacobson

Senior Consultant
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Kneale Jefferis

Administrator
Alan S 329

Alan Simpson

Financial Controller
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Mark Dallaway

Senior Associate
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Tammy King

Head of People
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Antonella Sferrino

Associate
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Claire Wallis

Consultant
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Adrian Cooper

Head of Market Engagement
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Danuta Nott

Business Support Manager
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Amanda Cullen

Senior Associate
Rosanne Corbett

Rosanne Corbett

Director
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Ian McQuade

CEO
SH 541

Steve Hammer

Trustee Secretary
KSM 515

Kate Maloney

Client Director
ELR 359

Emma Rogers

Senior Consultant
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Paul Armitage

Associate
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Cindy Dadier

Business Manager
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Aliza Bashir

Analyst
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Margs Harvey

Business Administrator
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Reece Eley

Junior Consultant
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Emma Beard

Senior Consultant
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Katherine Milton

Senior Consultant

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Chair of Trustees, Nationwide Pension Fund
Muse has provided us with a comprehensive framework to help assess the effectiveness of our existing system of governance and to challenge our existing approach to risk management. With Muse’s guidance, we are expecting to see a number of improvements to our risk management framework which will put us in a strong position for when TPR’s Single Code comes into force. Muse has helped us to identify and resolve gaps in our governance structure underpinning our risk management framework. In particular, by aligning our risk management framework with our strategy, the Trustee Board is supported in achieving its objectives.
Head of Trustee Governance, DHL Pensions
In the time we worked together Muse showed a genuine understanding of, and commitment to, our Plan's objectives that I have rarely, if ever, seen matched by other consultancies. A pleasure to work with.
Former Pensions Manager, Scottish & Newcastle Pension Plan

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