The importance of having an independent professional trustee on your board

What does it mean to offer independent trustee services? This is a question James Kavanagh, managing director of Trustee Decisions, a specialist company providing impartial and independent trusteeship to private and public pension schemes, is well equipped to answer.

“Quite simply, it means to be impartial in your trusteeship and to be independent of any conflict of interest,” he said.

“Many occupational pension schemes (OPS) in Ireland have well-placed trustee professionals, but if ...