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Musings | 16 Jun 2025

Getting the most out of the Own Risk Assessment (ORA)

With ORAs now underway, Rosanne shares tips on what’s required in the ORA and how to go about completing it. For those who haven’t yet started, it’s helpful to understand what the ORA covers and what Trustees are asked to assess and evidence from a governance and risk management perspective.

Musings | 16 Jun 2025

How do you decide between in-house versus outsourced pensions management?

In the last edition of Muse News, Ellen looked at the role of the pensions manager, which has become significantly more demanding. With the increasing weight of project work, such as dashboards, GMP work and end-game journey planning, alongside business-as-usual activities, managing resource and key person risk is critical. Ellen takes a deeper dive into factors that should be considered when looking at in-house versus outsourced pensions management – cost, managing risks, sustainability and flexibility.

Musings | 16 Jun 2025

Navigating an evolving landscape

We recently held a roundtable with a small group of pensions leaders with a mix of trustee and corporate roles, with the discussion focusing on run-on, surplus and buy-out. This article provides a summary of challenges and opportunities in a pensions landscape that continues to evolve. Although the Pension Schemes Bill provides a little more clarity for companies and schemes on some of the challenges discussed at the roundtable, many of the observations remain pertinent.

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Mark Dallaway

Senior Associate
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Antonella Sferrino

Associate
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Danuta Nott

Business Support Manager
AC 335

Amanda Cullen

Senior Associate
KSM 515

Kate Maloney

Client Director
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Robert Plumb

Senior Associate
KW 43 1

Katy Wilkinson

Consultant
TO 397

Tom Oakley

Consultant
KJ 123 1

Kneale Jefferis

Administrator
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Paul Armitage

Associate
EE 1

Evalinde Eelens

Senior Associate
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Liza Sinclair

Senior Consultant
TK 16 1

Tammy King

Head of People
BM 110 1

Barry Mack

Director
RAC 6

Robyn Cowan

Consultant
MH 550 1

Margs Harvey

Business Administrator
Rosanne Corbett

Rosanne Corbett

Director
LH 144 1

Lindsay Hawkins

Director
RE 365

Reece Eley

Junior Consultant
IM 380

Ian McQuade

CEO
CW 392

Claire Wallis

Consultant
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Geoff Francis

Senior Consultant
ELR 359

Emma Rogers

Senior Consultant
ADC 28

Adrian Cooper

Head of Market Engagement
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Alan Simpson

Financial Controller
HB 403

Hana Bailey

Senior Consultant
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Cindy Dadier

Business Manager
EB 180 1

Emma Beard

Senior Consultant
SH 541

Steve Hammer

Trustee Secretary
JF 57 1

Jo Fellowes

Director
KEM 96 1

Katherine Milton

Senior Consultant
DJ 323

Daniel Jacobson

Senior Consultant
AB 78

Aliza Bashir

Analyst
PV 530

Pamjit Virdi

Consultant

Testimonials

Muse helped us review the Trustee’s approach to managing risk, introducing and documenting a new risk management framework, which set out the Scheme’s risk governance and processes, dovetailing with operational risk management practices. Rosanne worked with me to facilitate workshops for the Trustee Board to agree its strategic objectives, risk appetite and key risks. Together we developed a reporting dashboard for the board, showing risk trends, incident reporting, project risk tracking and horizon scanning of emerging risks. She also worked closely with the Operational Risk Manager to embed good risk management practices within the in-house Trustee Executive team. In parallel, Rosanne worked with the Trustee’s Governance Committee to embed a new internal audit work partner and agree the internal audit workplan. Rosanne brought insights and expertise into risk management practices with other large pension schemes and brought risk alive for our scheme so that we understood its value. The trust she built enabled us to tackle complex issues, whilst developing simple and effective solutions for the Trustee Board.
Head of Legal and Compliance of Trustee Executive Limited, National Grid - Trustee Executive Limited
Muse worked skillfully with the trustees, our advisers and our main Company contacts to help us review trustee board effectiveness and provide independent insights. Muse set their report in a strategic context for the scheme and it was evident Muse understood our unique challenges as well as comparisons to peer schemes. They framed proportionate views and made clear recommendations for actions that we are now taking forward. It has been a good piece of work, and worthwhile. It will help us work with the Company to make further progress on the scheme. The other trustees had not experienced an effectiveness review; they found it easy to work with Muse and engaged well with the trustee board’s discussion of the report findings.
Independent Trustee Chair, QinetiQ Pension Scheme
We engaged Muse, in advance of our administration contract renewal, to review the service and contractual terms and ensure we received overall value for money from our third party administrator. I was delighted with the outcome and the material improvement we achieved.
Former Head of Pensions, Vodafone

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