Sarah Smart
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Sarah was elected as the Chair of the Trustee Board at The Pensions Trust on 13 April 2010.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Coopers & Lybrand, Sarah moved to Standard Life Investments, where she remained until 2008 working in a number of different roles covering a wide variety of asset classes, including real estate, hedge funds and derivative strategies. |
Latterly, she was responsible for building the infrastructure to support a multi-billion pound liability-driven investment business.
Sarah began work as a pension trustee in 2004, when she was elected as a member nominated trustee of the Standard Life Staff Pension Scheme. Since then she has acted as a trustee for six other pension schemes, ranging in size from £5m to £3bn. She is currently a Board Member of the London Pensions Fund Authority.
Sarah currently runs her own management consultancy business, SmartCats Consulting, which specialises in improving financial and operational effectiveness for organisations. She is also a Director of Social Investment Scotland.
Sarah regularly contributes to a variety of pensions magazines and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland Pensions Working Party.