TPT Retirement Solutions has announced the appointment of Helen Taylor as chief legal, risk & compliance officer.

Taylor has spent over a decade at TPT, where she has held several roles, including chief people officer, corporate services director and HR director. Before joining TPT, she worked as head of HR at Damartex and head of organisational development and legal training at Hammonds Direct law firm. In her new role, Taylor will report directly to TPT chief executive, David Lane, and will be responsible for managing TPT’s risk, compliance and training frameworks. She will also oversee the identification, assessment and management of risk across the organisation, alongside the implementation and ongoing development of effective compliance frameworks.

Sackers has appointed John Card as a project manager.

Card has extensive experience in defined benefit (DB) pensions and projects, which he has gained from working in pensions administration, pensions analyst, and operations roles for 20 years. Most recently, he held the role of DB operational services manager at Just Group and, before that, held several roles at Equiniti. This appointment follows the appointment of Derek Obeng, who joined Sackers as a project manager in 2025. Obeng has over eight years of experience in defined contribution (DC) pensions, master trust and employee benefits from his roles at Fidelity, Smart Pensions, and Benifex.

Standard Life has appointed Neil Jones as tax and estate planning specialist.

Jones has more than 30 years of experience across adviser firms and pension providers, and brings specialist expertise in the areas of international wealth management, tax, estate and retirement planning to this position. The role will include providing technical support to adviser firms on wealth management and estate planning strategies covering a broad range of topics and themes through webinars, consultancy, articles and commentaries. This appointment comes at a time when advisers are navigating significant change in wealth and retirement planning, with new rules bringing pensions into scope of inheritance tax from April 2027 and reforms to salary sacrifice as announced in the recent Autumn Budget.

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