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Tom Hargreaves FIA

Principal and Senior Consultant - Corporate Actuary
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Tom provides actuarial and consultancy advice to sponsors and trustees of pension schemes.

Tom predominantly advises companies on all aspects of their pension arrangements, including scheme funding advice, liability management, transactions, benefit design, pension scheme accounting and PPF levy issues. He also leads Barnett Waddingham’s offering to Private Equity firms.

Tom has advised clients with schemes ranging in size from £10 million to £8 billion across a range of sectors from not-for-profit organisations to large financial institutions.

Significant experience:

  • helped to provide valuation advice to a large client that resulted in a significant reduction in the proposed deficit
  • advised a variety of companies on their accounting disclosures under tight timescales
  • provided advice to a company on a benefit change project, challenging their preferred idea and developing a solution that better met their objectives

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Career

Tom graduated from Warwick University with a Master’s degree in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics in 2008 and joined Barnett Waddingham’s London office the same year.

Tom qualified as a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2011, was promoted to associate in 2016 and to principal in 2021.

Memberships

  • Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
  • Full member of the Association of Consulting Actuaries

Interests

Outside of work Tom enjoys swimming and playing golf and cricket, though generally any sporting activity will do. He also plays the piano and has aspirations of attempting grade eight, having passed grade seven at school before many years of academic and professional exams took priority!