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New Partners and Associates 2003
The Partners of Barnett Waddingham are pleased to announce the following promotions with effect from 1 June 2003.
New Partners
Caroline Harrington graduated in 1990 with a degree in Mathematics and joined Barnett Waddingham later that year. She specialises in providing actuarial services to our Small Self-Administered Scheme (SSAS) clients and to several other professional trustee firms.
Caroline is qualified as an Associate of the Pensions Management Institute (APMI).
Isabel Coles joined the pensions consultancy team in Barnett Waddingham's London office in September 1995, and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA) in 2000. Isabel advises the trustees and sponsors of a number of defined benefit and defined contribution schemes.
She has experience in a wide range of areas including pension scheme design, sales and purchases, investment strategy work, and winding-up of schemes. She obtained her Scheme Actuary certificate last year and has recently gained her first Scheme Actuary appointment. Isabel is a regular speaker at Barnett Waddingham's seminars and has spoken at conferences in Paris and Bonn.
New Associates
Pauline Berry who joined the Liverpool office as an Associate in January.
Dot Clark who will be joining us as an Associate in the new Glasgow office, which opens in June 2003.
Trevor Harvey who joined the Amersham office as an Associate in January.
Paul Hamilton is an actuary specialising in providing pensions and investment advice to our coprorate clients. He is also responsible for developing our actuarial valuation software, as well as being actively involved in the management of the Amersham actuarial team.
Marcus Whitehead joined Barnett Waddingham in 2002 and is a senior member of the Barnett Waddingham Investments Limited team.
He qualified as an actuary in 1992 and over the last decade has gained particular expertise in advising on defined contribution arrangements, to both companies and individuals, on insured and self-administered pension schemes, also covering approved and unapproved arrangements.
Adam Walker joined the corporate pensions team in London in 1996 and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (FIA) in 2001. In addition to mainstream pensions work, he is responsible for monitoring the firm's information systems and investment research.
Adam regularly speaks at Barnett Waddingham seminars and also looks after the firm's website.
Peter Burton joined Barnett Waddingham in December 1998 and is a lead consultant in the Leeds office executive benefits team, with responsibility for a portfolio of clients with Small Self-Administered Schemes, Unapproved Schemes and Selt-Invested Personal Pensions.
He has 32 years of experience in pensions and has specialised in executive benefit arrangements since 1984. Peter holds the Financial Planning Certificate and is a regular speaker at Barnett Waddingham seminars.
Robert Wakefield is based in the Leeds office. Robert graduated from the university of Leeds in 1988 with a degree in Mathematics and Statistics. He joined Barnett Waddingham in February 1999 to help set up the pensions administration team in Leeds.
As well as heading up the team, he is also responsible for the computer systems used in the department. Robert has worked in the pension industry for 12 years and has experience in all aspects of pensions administration.
Bob Chadwick joined Barnett Waddingham in October 2002 to provide actuarial and consultancy support for the clients of our Liverpool office. He qualified as an actuary in 1972 and has spent most of his career working in Liverpool.
Bob worked for Royal Insurance for two spells of about ten years, broken in the middle by ten years with consulting actuaries Duncan C Fraser & Co. In recent years, Bob has worked in insurance on a variety of projects including Millennium systems compliance to the pensions mis-selling review.
Barnett Waddingham, June 2003.