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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.  

Musings | 28 Sept 2026

AI governance

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is driving considerable change across many industries, including pensions, and whilst there are significant potential benefits available, the risks are real as well. Jo Fellowes explores where AI is currently being used and developed in the pensions industry and considers the changes in Trustee governance required to oversee data, security and cyber risk as AI use continues to evolve.

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Emma Beard

Senior Consultant
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Cindy Dadier

Head of Operations
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Hana Bailey

Senior Consultant
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Robyn Cowan

Senior Consultant
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Alan Simpson

Financial Controller
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Olivia Devereese

Project Manager
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Tony Brown

Consultant
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Adrian Cooper

Head of Market Engagement
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Amanda Cullen

Senior Associate
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Paul Armitage

Head of DC
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Geoff Francis

Senior Consultant
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Margs Harvey

Business Administrator
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Emma Rogers

Senior Consultant
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Tom Oakley

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Daniel Jacobson

Principal Consultant
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Claire Wallis

Consultant
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Clare Chilton

Consultant
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Tammy King

Head of People
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Katy Wilkinson

Consultant
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Ian McQuade

CEO
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Rosanne Corbett

Director
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Ryan Perrin

IT Support Apprentice
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Kate Maloney

Client Director
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Katherine Milton

Principal Consultant
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Kneale Jefferis

Administrator
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Stuart Murdoch

Consultant
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Ellen Ratcliffe

Principal Consultant
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Mark Dallaway

Senior Associate
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Susan Sinclair

Senior Consultant
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Reece Eley

Junior Consultant
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Danuta Nott

Business Support Manager
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Antonella Sferrino

Associate
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Adam Chate

Senior Consultant
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Jo Fellowes

Director
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Robert Plumb

Senior Associate
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Adam Barker

Project Manager

Testimonials

Muse have helped us via an independent trustee effectiveness review, a discussion workshop for the board on the findings and subsequently some planning and facilitation work for Trustee strategy sessions. The Muse team are highly capable with a strong client focus in the way they work, with us and our other advisers. Our trustee board is skilled and expects high quality and good value for money from advisers. Muse has consistently delivered this.
Chair, 3i Group Pension Plan
Rosanne and Julia facilitated an online session for the Trustee Board on strategic planning and agreeing our objectives for member experience, considering administration service delivery and member communications and engagement. It was a focused, positive and engaging session despite it having to be held online rather than face to face as we’d planned. It helped us make progress and we had a meaningful discussion as a board. All the trustee directors were able to share candid views and ideas on what is important to us as a board and to members. We got a lot of value out of it - and more to the point now have a basis to agree long-term non-financial objectives for the pension scheme.
Chair and Trustee Director, National Grid Electricity Group Trustee Limited
We appointed Muse because of their depth and breadth of knowledge of the pension administration market and their independence. Having an adviser who has such level of experience is critical. Muse helped ensure that the Trustees were confident in the decision they took when selecting their third party administrator. Many implementation projects over-promise and under-deliver. Muse provided expert guidance, alongside our own internal project management function and the third party administrator, to ensure a successful implementation that delivered the planned level of automation from day 1. I would confidently recommend Muse Advisory to other Trustee Boards.
Trustee Director, RBS Pension Trustee Limited

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