Liam Drysdale FFA

Liam supports the fund actuary in providing funding and valuation advice.

He works as a client relationship manager on various LGPS funds, which includes signing out individual employer funding and accounting advice, as well as other ad-hoc pieces of work required by these funds and their employers.

Clients: 

• LGPS funds and their participating employers

Significant experience: 

• Gives funding advice to LGPS funds and their participating employers.
• Provides a high number of IAS19 and FRS102 accounting disclosures each year, including complex cases such as asset ceiling calculations, pass-through arrangements and allowing for bulk transfers.
• Involved in developing task management and efficiencies both internally and externally.
• Senior member of the LGPS valuation project board which is responsible for the valuation projects, most recently the 2022 valuation.
• Works as a client account manager on funds and is the main point of contact for the ongoing work on these funds.

Other expertise: 

• Worked on various bulk transfers, including negotiating terms and carrying out calculations.
• Experience in dealing with longevity insurance swaps.
• Training officers, committees, employers and local pension boards on funding issues and current issues relating to the LGPS.