Richard Butcher

Managing Director

PTL

Richard is Managing Director of PTL a market leading and award winning
professional independent pension trustee company. He has been involved in
pension scheme governance since 1985, is a Fellow of the Pensions
Management Institute (PMI) and is Chair of the Pension and Lifetime Savings
Association (PLSA), the industry association for pension schemes. He is a
governor of the Pension Policy Institute. He co-chairs the IA/PLSA joint “Long
Term Relationship between Asset Owners and Investment Managers” working
group and is a member of the HMT/BoE/FCA Working Group on Facilitating
Investment in Long Term Assets. He was a member of the FCA’s Institutional
Disclosure Working Group (IDWG), a body established to create a template
for the disclosure of investment costs and charges. He has also sat on the
Investment Associations Cost Disclosure Working Group, the Council of the
PMI, the PLSA DC Council (which he chaired for two years), the Pension
Regulators DC Practitioners Panel and the Department of Work and Pensions
Trustee Panel. He is an Accredited Professional Trustee, is a regular
contributor to the trade press and has won a number of awards and
accolades.