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 Why the role of a specialist trustee scheme secretary is so important
It’s easy for people outside of the pensions world to imagine that the role of scheme secretary is largely made up of arranging lunches, meeting rooms and taking notes. However, far from the in-depth and highly important role that has become a recognised.
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Blog post Spot the conflict and boost your governance step counter
Conflicts of interest have long been part of the trustee/employer environment. However, the scope and meaning of what type of conflicts could arise has developed and broadened as governance best practice evolved.
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Briefing What TPR expects of 21st Century trustees
TPR carried out research which identified that many schemes were not being run to the standard expected by TPR. On the back of these findings TPR initiated an education program which was given the name of “21st Century Trusteeship”.
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.