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Independent trustee service 

The challenge for employers

Running a pension scheme is a huge responsibility, which requires real expertise. Trustees are often faced with difficult decisions, as they attempt to balance the interests of various stakeholders and run their scheme in an ever-changing legislative environment.

Trustees are also responsible for ensuring that their scheme is adequately funded and for investing vast sums of money in increasingly complex products. Therefore, it is vital that they are familiar with investment markets and understand how to balance risk with expected returns.

In addition, trustees are encountering increasing problems with potential conflicts of interests, particularly in connection with decisions relating to scheme funding, scheme change and corporate transactions.

How Bridge Trustees can help

Bridge Trustees is our pension trustee company. Bridge Trustees' focus is on security, stakeholder involvement and efficiency.

Appointing Bridge Trustees will enable your scheme to tap into our extensive actuarial, legal and administrative knowledge and experience, thus reducing the risks and costs associated with running your scheme.

Bridge Trustees' services

The service you receive will be tailored to your scheme. However, Bridge Trustees main services include:

• acting as the independent trustee for ongoing schemes and schemes in wind-up
• Bridge Trustees acts as independent trustee to many such schemes with assets totalling around £3.5 billion
• Pension Protection Fund transitions - we have extensive experience of successfully transitioning schemes into the PPF in a timely, accurate and cost efficient manner

Other services include acting as sole trustee, acting as secretary to the trustees, temporary appointments and arbitration.

For further information, visit www.bridgetrustees.com