Pensions Consultancy – What we offer
As you would expect from one of the UK's leading actuarial consultancies, we provide a full range of actuarial advice, whether it involves strategic issues on benefit design to ensure that benefit arrangements meet a company's objectives, to providing the advice needed on a day to day basis to ensure that the client's scheme meets members' needs and remain compliant with today's complex legislation.
We have the depth of resource to take on practically any pensions related task. Whether it is a defined benefit or defined contribution scheme, we are able to meet your needs.
Please explore the rest of this site for the additional areas of advice we provide, a more detailed look at our expertise in pensions consulting such as mergers and acquisitions, managing closed DB schemes, communicating DC benefits and other areas such as pensions administration, investment and risk benefits. We also cater for those with multinational needs and with the ever increasing demands of corporate reporting.
Strategic advice on benefit design
We have many years of experience in assisting employers in designing and reviewing their employee benefit plans and in particular their pension arrangements.
As pressure to control costs and manage risk become ever greater, it is important to be able to turn to the pensions advisers and obtain clear, impartial advice on the full range of options. It may be that all that is needed is a communications exercise so that employees appreciate the pensions element of their remuneration. Alternatively radical changes may be needed. We are able to advise on all areas of pension scheme design. For instance we are able to assist on:
- defined benefit and defined contribution schemes;
- hybrid arrangements such as cash balance plans; and
- specialist schemes for directors and senior executives
We believe that to be able to produce an effective set of proposals for consideration we must obtain a full understanding of our client's objectives and the reasons for change. This is about finding the solutions that best meet your needs, not following the latest fashions.
Once a set of proposals has been agreed, we are able to assist in implementing any changes. In particular we believe it vital to focus on clear and effective employee communication.
Pension scheme financing and compliance
We offer the full range of services that pensions managers and trustees require in order to ensure that their pension scheme is run smoothly and effectively, and meets best practice.
We ensure that trustees and sponsoring employers understand the issues that are being considered and that, in many cases, there is not one single answer but a range of actuarial methods and assumptions available.
We believe it is important to provide clear recommendations where we feel there are solutions that best suit your needs. Where there are difficult decisions to be made we can guide you through the process, helping to find the outcome that meets the needs of all parties.
