Barnett Waddingham has announced the appointment of two new hires to its self-invested personal pension (SIPP) team and has appointed Will Scobie as senior risk and resilience consultant.

Emily Crotty joins Barnett Waddingham SIPP as head of SIPP risk, while Rebecca Smith took up the role of head of SIPP finance earlier this year. Their combined experience in senior leadership roles will support Nick Cooper, who recently took over as CEO following a planned transition from Simon Foster. Both Crotty and Smith will join the SIPP Senior Management team. Crotty joins from the Embark Group, where she led the compliance advisory team and brings extensive experience supporting businesses through strategic change. Meanwhile, Smith is the finance business lead for Barnett Waddingham SIPP. She brings experience in strategic financial leadership, which will support the business in delivering growth.
In addition to these appointments to its SIPP team, Barnett Waddingham also appointed Will Scobie as senior risk and resilience consultant. He joins after leading Horizonscan for 10 years, a boutique consultancy specialising in risk and resilience. In his new role, Scobie will help grow Barnett Waddingham’s resilience practice, whilst leveraging his expertise to support and lead client projects across the wider risk and digital resilience areas. He will also drive new business development for the team.

London Pensions Fund Authority has appointed Tegs Harding to its board.

Harding is a professional trustee, a qualified actuary and a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries as well as head of sustainability at Independent Governance Group. She also holds a CFA certificate in environmental, social and governance investment and is an accredited member of the Association of Professional Pension Trustees. To this role, she brings her knowledge from across various pension scheme sectors, including DC, master trusts, DB, and collective DC schemes. Prior to her move into trusteeship, Tegs built a career in investments and has experience chairing investment committees for large schemes.

Independent Governance Group (IGG) has appointed Hatty Goodwin as trustee director and head of risk transfer.

She will lead IGG’s risk transfer team and be based in IGG’s Bristol office. Goodwin brings over 17 years of experience to the role, having worked within a range of advisory firms, including WTW, Capita, Broadstone, and most recently, Aon, where she led the investment risk settlement team. The appointment follows recent announcements of risk transactions where IGG is appointed as professional trustee. She is also chair of trustees for Marmalade Trust, a charity dedicated to raising awareness of loneliness and is a trustee for Bristol Metropolitan Orchestra.

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