Speaker profile: Tommy Burns

Tommy Burns was appointed deputy chair of the Pension Scams Industry Group (PSIG) in July of this year, having been part of PSIG since its inception in 2014. The PSIG, formerly the Pensions Liberation Industry Group, is a voluntary body created by the pensions industry to help share good practice and reduce the risk of scams through consistently applied practical due diligence. The Group launched its first Code of Good Practice for use by all in the industry in 2015 and on 10 June 2019, published Version 2.1.The Code is widely supported and recognised as having saved many people from losing their pension savings through scams. Tommy has nearly 40 years’ experience in the pensions industry and is currently risk and incident manager at Standard Life, where he has held a number of managerial roles and been at the forefront of the organisation’s pension scams controls since 2012.