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News
Kent County Council reappoints BW's Public Sector team
Barnett Waddingham (BW) has been reappointed to deliver actuarial, benefits and governance consultancy services to the Kent Pension Fund.
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News
Senior Consultant joins BW to bolster LGPS offering
Due to continued growth, Barnett Waddingham, the UK’s largest independent provider of actuarial, administration and consultancy services, expands its Public Sector …
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Briefing
Consolidation of academies: the pros and cons for funds and MATs
We discuss some of the issues for administering authorities to consider when dealing with MAT requests for only one LGPS fund for their support staff, rather than s…
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Blog
Is our LGPS funding model paying dividends?
Funding ongoing defined benefit pension promises, such as the LGPS, is a long term business and actuarial models need to be long term to produce sensible valuations.
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News
Remedying age discrimination in the LGPS England and Wales: Government issues consultations
In a flurry of action on 16 July, various consultations were issued by Government proposing solutions to providing remedy across many of the public service pension …
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Blog
Is the LGPS to be saddled with a new valuation cycle?
MHCLG have recently issued a consultation on a number of proposed changes to the LGPS in England and Wales.
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Blog
Exciting times for actuaries predicted
Pensions are supposed to be boring – public sector pensions even more so. Actuaries are only supposed to get excited very occasionally and when they do, it’s often…
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Blog
LGPS Funds: Valuation anyone?
These days we seem to have an LGPS valuation every five minutes. These are now set to become every four years. So where to start?
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News
Barnett Waddingham welcomes experienced actuary to Public Sector team
We are pleased to announce the appointment of experienced actuary, Barry McKay, as a new associate in the public sector team.
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Blog
Reform: public sector exit payment charges
The Spending Review 2015 announced Government’s plans to continue to modernise terms and conditions of workers in the public sector to ensure fairness and sustainab…