Pensions Practice

Our pensions practice analyses the pensions that are promised to our clients’ employees. It is the largest part of our business, but works very closely with our other practices.

Teams of 50 to 150 people can be found in each of our six UK consulting offices.

The work involves analysis of the past: changes in employees’ pay; employee job movement; and pensioners’ ever lengthening lives.

This information needs to be assessed: is the information credible; is there something unusual about the past compared to the future; and how material is it for the purpose of the assessment?

Our consultants can then help our clients predict the size and timing of the future pension payments and determine the amount and types of investments to support those payments.

Often our advice is to help our clients manage and monitor their risks and financing. On other occasions it is to help them re-design the type of pensions they provide. Sometimes our advice provides the make or break details in a corporate transaction, particularly in the ever increasing world of private equity takeovers.

We will be offering roles in our pensions practice to a further 25 to 30 skilled and motivated graduates. Our Pensions Actuarial Services (PAS) team is the first port of call. Over a period of four or so years, you will acquire the knowledge and hone the essential skills that provide the foundation of your career, whilst providing services to our clients.

You will work very closely with our consultants who will help you develop your own consulting style and introduce you to the clients they advise.