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Grant Suckling

Trustee Director

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Grant has 20 years’ pensions experience built through a variety of senior roles, including as sole corporate trustee, chair and co-trustee of many schemes. Prior to joining Ross Trustees, Grant was an actuarial partner and also an independent trustee at Aon, supporting pension scheme clients of varying asset sizes from the low millions to over £1 billion.

Pragmatic and proportionate approach, and an actuarial background means Grant can hit the ground running, knows what questions to ask, what to ignore, where to look and how to take forward projects with companies. He has worked alongside trustees and employers in a number of other capacities such as Scheme Actuary, Company Actuary, Secretary, Pensions Manager, Project Manager and a Governance Specialist. This experience means he is able to see issues from all perspectives and is well-qualified to provide strategic input on a broad range of exercises and initiatives, such as journey planning. He has a particular focus on helping trustee boards successfully navigate their way through a period of major change or transition.

Grant is organised, action-orientated and has a can-do attitude to his work. Strong, productive relationships are central to the way he operates and he builds effective relationships with individual personalities and skills present on the trustee board, ensuring all views and perspectives are considered and that items are explained and clearly communicated so that decision-making is effective.

He is a fully-accredited member of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees and a member of the Pensions Management Institute. He is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and sits on the Council of the Society of Pensions Professionals.

“Working with Grant and other stakeholders such as the sponsoring employer was vital to delivering change and Grant was right at the centre of that. Happy to listen, advise and challenge in equal measure but always in a collaborative style.”
Chair of Trustees, UK Pension Scheme

  • Adviser review
  • Closure to future accrual projects
  • Experience of putting in place an asset backed arrangement (e.g. reservoir trust, asset backed contribution, escrow)
  • Interaction with TPR
  • Liability management exercises, e.g. PIEs, WULS, Trivial Lump Sum exercises
  • Member communications
  • Mentoring lay trustees
  • Overseas parent company
  • Scheme governance
  • Scheme secretarial
  • Scheme wind up
  • Supporting clients in respect of GMP projects
  • Significant experience working with European and US sponsors
  • Strategic scheme secretary, bringing together trustees, advisers and sponsors through difficult decisions
  • Strategic partner of governance sub-committee of a £1bn+ DB & DC scheme
  • Drafts easy-to-understand member communications signposting member actions
  • Guides, supports and develops trustees, recognising their strengths and potential
  • Working with TPR on complex funding and mitigation packages
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