Christine Kerr FPMI
Christine is a Senior Pension Management Consultant based in our Glasgow office and one of the dedicated governance and secretarial specialists within the Pensions Management team. She focusses on secretarial and governance services, supporting special projects and management support for in house teams.
Significant experience
- Head of outsourced governance team for seven years, providing combined trustee pension manager and secretarial services to a £4bn scheme with 35,000 members and several project and sub committees
- General consulting and scheme management services to full service clients size c£100m
- On site secondments
- Financial management and scheme budgets
- Management of projects including administration transitions
Other expertise
- Trustee effectiveness
- Managing advisers, adviser reviews and selection
- Successful collaboration with other advisers
- Knowledge of DC governance
- Member communications
Comment & Insight
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Blog post How professional is your professional trustee?
The Regulator published an industry consultation on the future of trusteeship and governance on 2 July 2019. One question asked is whether an accredited professional trustee should be required to sit on every board. This blog explores this further...
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Briefing Super skilled scheme secretaries
It’s easy for people outside of the pensions world to imagine that the role of a pension scheme secretary is largely made up of menial tasks. This is far from the truth. This role has become a recognised and respected career in its own right.
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Case study Extra hands and fresh eyes
Our national Pension Management team has a broad range of experience in the running of pension schemes and can provide tailored support as part of the client’s own team.
Career
Christine joined Barnett Waddingham in August 2018 having previously worked for a large multinational consultancy for 26 years. Joining the industry in 1984, she was initially a pensions administrator. She then moved to consultancy in 1999 carrying out scheme secretarial and general consulting. Christine has specialised in large scheme governance since 2011.
Membership
- Fellow of Pensions Management Institute
- Member of PMI Advisory Council
- Member of PMI Trustee Group
- Member of PMI Risk and Assurance Committee
Interests
Christine is married to Paul, has two teenage children and a cat called Noosh.
She enjoys good company, yoga and prosecco, though not always at the same time.