Pensions UK has appointed Sarah Sim as executive director of membership and commercial services.

Sim brings three decades of experience in business development, commercial strategy and global membership leadership working for membership bodies, learned societies and profit-for-purpose organisations. Most recently, she was on the executive leadership team at the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and, earlier in her career, was a director at the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. She will be responsible in her new role for evolving the member experience, growing and diversifying income, and helping lead the organisation to deliver the Pensions UK 2030 Ready Strategy. She started the role on 3 September 2025 and sits on both the Pensions UK Board and Executive Leadership Team.

M&G has announced the appointment of Rosie Fantom as head of origination and execution for its corporate pensions solutions business.

In her new role, Fantom will lead a team of around 10 people and be responsible for identifying and securing new business opportunities, shaping client propositions, and overseeing the structuring and execution of pension risk transfer (PRT) transactions. M&G will be launching the industry’s first With-Profits bulk purchase annuity (BPA) in 2026, allowing pension scheme members to share in the benefits. Fantom is a qualified actuary and brings a wealth of experience from over 17 years in the PRT market. Most recently, she was head of bulk annuities at Barnett Waddingham, and prior to this, she worked for Scottish Widows.

First Actuarial has appointed Claire Fuller and Robert Hurst as co-heads of administration.

Fuller moved to First Actuarial in 2013, after spending 16 years at Xafinity, where she dealt with systems and data analysis. She also held trainee administrator roles at Towers Watson (formerly Swiss Life) and Pearson Publishing early on in her career. Fuller’s most recent role at First Actuarial was head of pensions administration systems. Meanwhile, Hurst has worked in pensions administration for 27 years, starting at Capita as a trainee administrator, progressing to pensions administration manager. Following further roles at Kerr and Company (now Broadstone) and Aon, he then moved across to the process side of pensions administration and was appointed as process manager at First Actuarial in 2020. Both Fuller and Hurst are actively involved in the Pensions Administration Standards Association, working with colleagues across the industry on standards for process and data quality in pensions administration.

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