- A system of meetings, reporting and governance processes;
- Ongoing engagement, communication and collaboration
- Testing of service delivery
- An early warning system for issues
- Timely resolution of issues and complaints
- Transparent reporting providing the right information
- Past experience of poor administration
- Contract approaching renewal
- Complacency and lack of attention in the service
- Insufficient internal resource for robust oversight
- Lack of transparency in reporting
- Provide comfort on risks and fees
- To bring best practice and wider market knowledge to bear on the service
- To make the governance aspects of the contract real
- To ensure you’re able to deliver on the sponsor and trustee promise – to pay the right benefits to the right people at the right time
Musings | 28 Sept 2026
Concentration risk in trustee services
What happens when a significant proportion of a scheme’s knowledge, governance activity and institutional memory becomes concentrated within a single organisation? Katherine Milton, who is part of our outsourced pensions management leadership team, looks at some of the challenges with concentration risk and outlines the key questions that trustees need to ask when assessing supplier concentration risk.
Musings | 28 Sept 2026
Private markets in UK pension defaults
Private markets could be a valuable addition to UK pension scheme default funds, especially for members who are many years from retirement. This area, however, is not without its challenges. In this article, Paul Armitage, Head of DC at Muse, looks at what this means for charges and member communications.
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