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Liberty Corporate Finance is delighted to announce they have advised the management team of Independent Governance Group (IGG), the UK’s leading provider of professional pensions trusteeship and governance services, on its investment from ECI Partners.

IGG was founded in February 2023 following the merger of two long-established firms, Ross Trustees and Independent Trustee Services (ITS), creating a singular destination for best-in-class professional pensions trusteeship, scheme secretarial, pensions managerial and governance services.

Today, IGG employs more than 200 people and its focus on an integrated approach with clients has won it 13 industry awards over the last three years. The business provides professional services to 386 pension schemes with total scheme assets of £324bn.Over the last 18 months, IGG has established a strong regional presence in Bristol, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Manchester alongside its London headquarters. In the process, it has added pensions and employee benefits communications and investment governance expertise to its core services, delivered under the Like Minds and IC Select brands respectively.

IGG has also invested in significant product and service innovation to help trustee boards fulfil their responsibilities to scheme sponsors and members. This includes the launch of IGGiQ, a proprietary SaaS platform that provides holistic, real-time analysis of a scheme’s investment performance, and the introduction of IGGnite, its consolidated governance model for small pension schemes.

IGG’s commitment to sustainability saw the launch of its Sustainability Charter last year, setting out commitments to work with schemes and industry to promote and drive responsible investment, as well as ensuring the long-term interests of members are best served.