Client feedback


Many organisations and people provide the services that clients need. In my opinion, the differentiator is in the way those services are provided and to that extent, Kathy embodies the qualities that I have come to value from PSITL. Kathy is organised but not fussy; diligent but not dogmatic; persistent without being pushy and compliant in a pragmatic way. Whilst she takes ownership and drives issues forward, Kathy is a team player who uses her and her colleagues experience to provide services to her trustee client whilst working closely with those like me representing the sponsoring employer. She works collaboratively with advisers but constructively challenges the scope of services, fees and service standards whenever necessary and makes sure that member needs are always taken into account. I enjoy working with her and trust that she will deliver what is required by the trustee and the members they represent in a manner satisfactory to the sponsoring employer.
Stuart Barker,
Internal Pensions Consultant, RSPCA
We don't have any worries - PSGS are always there for us and plan ahead with advisers and agendas.
Stephen Allaker,
Bristol Myers-Squibb
We have a good partnership the team really understand what we need and our knowledge eg budgets - "we don't have a referee" - very helpful. Challenge advisers but with a practical objective. Thanks to PSGS, GMP equalisation has been just a process.
Stephen Allaker ,
Bristol Myers-Squibb
Excellent and comprehensive training course. I will definitely refer to what I've learned and received.
Kyp Kyprianou,
Bam Construction UK Ltd
Ever increasing regulation has placed a heavy burden on trustees both in terms of time and the risk of non-compliance. PSGS has the experience and the resources to help trustees manage these burdens.
Mark Atkinson,
Partner at CMS Cameron McKenna
As a pensions novice, I felt that the trustee training course gave me a good grounding.
Will Court
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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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