Essex County Council has appointed Barnett Waddingham, the UK’s largest independent firm of actuaries and consultants, to advise on its pension scheme.
Essex County Council administers a pension fund for staff employed by all the councils in Essex. The pension scheme has an active membership of 43,728 and the fund was valued at £3.1 billion as of March 2010.
Graeme Muir, head of Public Sector Practice at Barnett Waddingham said:
“Our appointment as actuaries to the Essex County Council Fund is a fantastic opportunity for the team. We look forward to working with them and assisting with the many challenges that lie ahead”
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About Barnett Waddingham
Barnett Waddingham LLP is the UK’s largest independent firm of actuaries, administrators and consultants. The firm works with Corporates, Trustees and Individuals in both the private and public sector, offering clear advice and a full range of professional advice including trustee consulting, employer pensions advice, pension management and administration, investment strategy, public sector pensions, risk benefits, life and general insurance consulting as well as the provision of SIPPs, SASSs and specialist executive pension plans’.
The firm has grown steadily since its inception in 1989. There are currently 50 partners and over 500 staff, based in 7 locations around the UK (Amersham, Bromsgrove, Cheltenham, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool and London). Barnett Waddingham is also the UK representative of NORACS (North American Actuarial Consulting Services) and EURACS (European Actuarial Consulting Services).
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