Amanda Asante’s recent experience includes managing in-house administration team, responsible for day to day administration of a £1bn+ DB pension scheme, a £100m+ DC pension scheme (held under Master Trust) as well as various medical and life assurance policies. She was also Scheme Secretary and governance lead for the £1bn+ DB pension Scheme and sat on corporate Pension & Benefits Governance Board for all other benefits. During this time, she sat on and chaired the Administration and Governance sub-committees.
Amanda has experience working with both DB and DC Trustee Boards on all aspects of day to day pension scheme management as well as a range of complex matters such as ETV exercises, Master Trust Selection, movement to a Fiduciary Management model, GMP reconciliation and equalisation, Flexible Apportionment Agreements, outsourcing of administration providers, adviser reviews, tender exercises and implementation of automatic enrolment.
Amanda has a strong focus on good governance and uses this as a method to reduce the operational risk of Trustee Boards. She combines this with an excellent technical understanding of administration, member matters, communications and benefit calculations. Due to the nature of her in-house experience, she brings a unique view from both sides of the table (Trustee and Employer) and helps to pull these two views together to reach a common goal. Her strengths include project management, risk review, compliance, relationship management, attention to detail and problem solving.
Amanda is a fully-accredited professional trustee with the Association of Professional Pension Trustees.
