If you’re attending the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association's Annual Conference in October in Liverpool, do say hello to our Capital Cranfield Professional Trustees, MD Harus Rai and representatives from our Secretarial and BD teams. Harus and Kate Grant will also be speaking, so please make sure you don’t miss their sessions on the future of #Trusteeship and #AI in the pensions industry! Here are our 19 attendees: Amanda Hamilton-Stanley, Anthea Whitton, Bushra Chaudry, Carole M Ryden, Caroline Legg, Darren Masters, Harus Rai, Karol Lewandowski, Kate Grant, Lukshmi Selvarajah, Martine Trouard-Riolle, Matt Jones, Michele Hirons-Wood, Nicky Hardcastle (BA, FCA, AMAPPT), Owen McCrea, Paul Watson, Ramona Tipnis, Ryan Ellett, Stephanie Baxter. #PLSAannual24 #PLSA #pensions
Capital Cranfield Trustees
Financial Services
Market-leading professional pension scheme trusteeship, scheme secretarial and governance.
About us
Capital Cranfield specialises in the professional independent trusteeship of occupational pension schemes and a limited number of directly related support services, notably scheme secretarial. We are on the Pensions Regulator’s Independent Trustee Register. Established in 1992, we are one off the UK’s largest professional trustee firms, with 46 professionals working on around 300 clients, offering a unique amount of accumulated pensions knowledge which we use for the benefit of our clients. Our professional trustees are based throughout the UK and we maintain offices in London, Edinburgh, Belfast and Nottingham. They are supported by 20 staff in a range of functions including finance, company secretarial and a five-person Internal Governance team who ensure compliance with our AAF 02/07 accredited processes.
- Website
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External link for Capital Cranfield Trustees
- Industry
- Financial Services
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1992
- Specialties
- Independent Pension Scheme Trusteeship, Sole Trusteeship, Trustee Secretarial Support Services, Defined Benefit & Hybrid Schemes, Defined Contribution Schemes & Master Trusts, and Scottish Pension Trustees
Locations
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Primary
5th Floor, New Liverpool House
15-17 Eldon Street
London, EC2M 7LD, GB
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Lenton Lane
Unit 15, Poplars Court
Nottingham, England, GB
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9 Ainslie Place
Edinburgh, EH3 6AT, GB
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55-59 Adelaide Street
Titanic Suite
Belfast, BT2 8FE, GB
Employees at Capital Cranfield Trustees
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Andrew Warwick-Thompson LLB EPMI PTPMI
Independent Chair and Accredited Professional Pension Trustee
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Paul Larner
Fractional CIO / CTO / CISO / IT Director, Certified CISO, Oxford AI certified, CIO100 2021 award-winner
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Ramona Tipnis
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Caroline Legg
Accredited Professional Pension Trustee
Updates
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This morning, our MD Harus Rai will be speaking on Heywood Pension Technologies' risk transfer webinar, which will focus on “What value does residual risk insurance bring to schemes?" The webinar, starting at 11am, will examine how new bulk purchase annuity offerings with unlimited, uncapped residual risk coverage can safeguard pension schemes. Also speaking on the panel are Kelvin Wilson of Heywood, Anna Rogers of Arc Pensions Law, and Simon Bramwell of Rothesay. You can sign up for the webinar here: https://lnkd.in/e6ASDcTH
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Paul Watson, a Professional Trustee at Capital Cranfield Trustees, recently spoke to Lynn Strongin Dodds for a PensionsAge article on defined contribution (DC) pension schemes and private assets. As DC schemes are being urged to invest in private markets, how can they achieve this and what are the opportunities and challenges? You can read the full article from p.64 in the latest Pensions Age issue: https://lnkd.in/eue-qEyr
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A big thanks to XPS Group for hosting a great Capital Cranfield Trustees Briefing Day on Monday at The Royal Air Force Club in London – an incredible venue brimming with military history. Congrats to Nigel Wilmin for organising a very successful event, and to all the speakers from XPS Group and Slaughter and May for their thought-provoking and insightful sessions. XPS’s André Kerr gave a brilliant talk about what he has learned about risk management from his experiences as a former RAF pilot before becoming a pensions consultant. We heard about run-on versus buyout and other consolidation options from XPS’s Arabella Slinger and Wayne Segers, and Daniel Schaffer of Slaughter & May. We also heard from Mark Searle and Jordan Harrison of XPS about maximising the value of illiquid investments in pensions schemes, and Simeon Willis and Emma Coleman, CFA of XPS gave a State of the Nation update on the current investment outlook. Thank you all for a great day!
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We are delighted to announce that Anthea Whitton and Kate Grant have joined Capital Cranfield Trustees as Professional Trustees. Anthea has 25 years of experience advising pension schemes and sponsors having worked at Eversheds, Squire Patton Boggs and Pinsent Masons. Kate's background is in pensions management, benefits and reward, and she was most recently Head of Pensions and Benefits at Vodafone. Our Managing Director Harus Rai says Anthea and Kate are two exceptional appointments who will fit in well with our existing team and will have rewarding careers with us. Welcome to Capital Cranfield, Anthea and Kate! Here is the full press release: https://lnkd.in/eiAqGW3t
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Matthew Jones, a Professional Trustee at Capital Cranfield Trustees, recently participated in a PensionsAge roundtable to discuss DB end-game planning, including preparing for buyout/buy-in or run-on. He spoke about the implications of more DB schemes in surplus and the complexities around approaching the use of surplus, as well as the need for good governance around purpose. You can read the roundtable from p.86 in the Pensions Age July/August issue: https://lnkd.in/eue-qEyr
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Michele Hirons-Wood, a Professional Trustee at Capital Cranfield Trustees, will be speaking about outsourced CIO models at the PensionsAge Autumn Conference on 19th September along with BlackRock’s Lara Edmonstone-West PhD CFA CAIA. Michele and Lara will discuss the complex challenges that schemes are facing and look at how an OCIO model can help unlock opportunities and provide effective solutions for trustees. You can register for the conference here: https://lnkd.in/ds-g3Gv #PensionsAgeAutumn
Pensions Age Autumn Conference
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We are delighted that one of our DB pension clients has achieved a £47.5m buy-in with insurer Canada Life for the remaining uninsured members of the Scheme. Capital Cranfield Trustees' Professional Trustee Kevin Wesbroom who is Chair of Trustees for the Scheme, said that while market movements brought the transaction into sight, it was ultimately a generous cash injection from the Employer that made it possible. He added that getting the deal across the line was a testament to “a real team effort” from the Employer, Trustees and the Scheme’s advisers Gallagher, Osborne Clarke and Aon. You can read the story on Professional Pensions here: https://lnkd.in/emzqRgrU
Unnamed scheme and Canada Life agree £47.5m buy-in deal
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We are excited to announce that Owen McCrea has joined Capital Cranfield Trustees as Head of Secretarial Services, based in our Nottingham office. Owen joins us from Coal Pension Trustees where he was their Head of Secretariat. He brings a broad range of experience across administration, risk, governance and secretarial functions, at both in-house roles and with third-party providers. Welcome Owen! Here is the link to the press release: https://lnkd.in/gEeRRm2T
Capital Cranfield appoints Owen McCrea as Head of Secretarial Services
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Capital Cranfield Trustees Managing Director Harus Rai recently spoke to Professional Pensions about the Trustee landscape. While research suggests lay trustees are planning to leave their roles and it is becoming harder to find people keen to be lay trustees, Harus says there is a huge influx of candidates interested in becoming professional trustees. Related to this, we have seen a rise in professional corporate sole trusteeship which can be the right option for many schemes but not every scheme, he says. Commenting on concerns about groupthink arising from the concentration of PT firms, Harus says Capital Cranfield mitigates this by “bringing in trustees from a range of complementary backgrounds, not just the pensions mainstream, to match differing client needs and encourage internal debate from varying perspectives.” You can read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/edkQPp73 Holly Roach Professional Pensions