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Key information about The Pensions Trust:

• Established in 1946, The Pensions Trust is an occupational pension scheme, established under Trust Law and run as a not-for-profit organisation.

• It is one of the leading multi-employer occupational pension scheme for the charitable, social, educational, voluntary and not-for-profit sectors.

• More than 100 staff serving 4,100 employer organisations with over 129,000 members and pensioners. (Source: Internal).

• Our Products are: 31 stand-alone final salary schemes, five multi-employer defined benefit schemes, a money purchase plan and a multi-employer career average revalued earnings (CARE) scheme.

• We provide a comprehensive pension administration service, covering all aspects of a trust based pension scheme.

• Run by a corporate Trustee with a democratically elected board of 16 directors – eight elected by employers and eight elected by members. This Board is responsible for the policy, strategy and supervision of The Pensions Trust. Each year four directors must retire and may offer themselves for re-election if still eligible.

• Fund Size: £3.99 billion funds under management, as at September 2007. (Source: Internal).

• We are the 48th largest pension fund in the UK. (Source: Professional Pensions Top 100 Pension Schemes, February 2008).

• Some participating schemes also have their own committees who make policy decisions on the management of the scheme. This means that employers and members can choose to be closely involved in their scheme.