Client feedback


I wanted to look at the effectiveness of our trustee board, so Gillian, our PSGS scheme secretary, provided their trustee self-assessment tool to help me gather thoughts and opinions from others on the board. The tool was extremely easy to use and asked all the right questions to help me collect the information I needed as Trustee Chair. It is a great example of the way PSGS shares knowledge with their clients and makes dealing with key governance issues easy. As well as enabling me to meet one of the Regulator’s 21st century trusteeship requirements, using the tool has flagged trustee training needs and ways we could improve trustee meetings further.
Claire Silvester,
Vector Aerospace
The Trustee Training course is very good. Excellent coverage of material presented in an easy-to-digest manner and quality of presentation by both presenters.
Jonathan Williams ,
Bangor University
Colin provides expert trusteeship. He guides former employees not familiar with legal constraints and restrictions - he is aware of them and helps solve problems - very happy.
Kat & Jason are very good at making it happen – they just take care of it.
Stephen Allaker ,
Bristol Myers-Squibb
Gillian and Curtis provide an excellent service to the trustees. They are approachable and possess a huge amount of knowledge. Everything appears to work smoothly which I am sure is due to the immense amount of work they do in the background to ensure all paperwork is available and up to date.
Ian Woods,
KGPT trustees
The Trustee training was very interactive and the presenters were engaging - thank you.
Nick Marsh,
Comet Pension Scheme
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About Punter Southall Governance Services

PSGS are the trusteeship and pension governance experts. We share our extensive knowledge and experience and find really smart solutions to benefit our clients.


PSGS is a long-established and award winning business, incorporated in 1995. We offer a range of services including scheme secretarial, pensions governance, professional trusteeship, governance consulting, pensions management, communications and adviser selection. We are a privately owned business, independent of all other firms offering advisory services to trust-based pension schemes.

Our business

Following the merger in 2018 of PS Independent Trustees & HR Trustees, we’re one of the UK’s largest independent trustee and professional pension secretarial services businesses. Although we’re now a team of over 50, we’ve been successful at keeping the personal feel we had at the very start.

Professionalism and personality have got us a long way. We currently work with 240 clients covering over 680,000 members and £50bn in assets. From the very small (£0.5m) to the very large (£5bn), clients stay with us. They trust us to get on with the job and deliver great service, knowing we’ll be friendly too.

We act for many pension schemes, including defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) pension schemes that are open or closed to new members or future benefit accrual, ongoing, winding up or merging. We work with both trust based pension schemes and contract based workplace pensions.

We are members of The Association of Corporate Trustees (TACT), Faculty and Institute of Actuaries, PLSA, Association of Professional Pension Trustees (APPT) and Pensions Management Institute (PMI).

Our ethos

Put simply, our ethos is to be a team and enjoy what we do.

The attributes of our business and characteristics of our people enable us to deliver collaborative, client-focused teamwork with professionalism and personality. By supporting each other, we’ve created a stable team with exceptionally low turnover.

Our culture is built on being a diverse, inclusive and respectful team, supportive of each other’s professional, mental, physical and financial wellbeing. Everyone in the team can be themselves and we all understand diversity goes beyond visible differences.

As well as focusing on this internally, we’re driving this debate externally, developing training and support to help clients embed diversity, equality and inclusion in trustee thinking, board effectiveness, scheme strategy and communications.

Our team

Our widely experienced team includes qualified actuaries and lawyers, investment advisers, pension managers, accredited mediators, administrators and pension consultants.


Why PSGS?

We offer clients innovative thinking, transparency and accessibility, delivered with a personal approach and a clear commitment to the very highest professional standards.


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Our offices

We have offices throughout the UK.


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To find out more about how we can help you

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