Louise Lau FFA
Louise works closely with our Local Authority clients and is focused on preparing reports and providing tailored advice to LGPS funds.
Louise acts as first point of contact for a number of our Local Authority clients, in particular Louise has a lot of experience working with Scottish LGPS Funds.
Significant experience:
- funding and other advice to Local Authority Pension Funds
- academy conversions, calculating the attributable deficit and contribution rate
- advice on accounting disclosures for public sector employers including complex disclosures where employers are in surplus, or have ceased to trade or have pass through arrangements in place
- negotiating, calculating and agreeing a number of bulk transfers each year
- advising on the continually evolving regulatory regime of the LGPS
Other experience:
- Louise has particular expertise working with Scottish LGPS Funds
- providing advice on risk-sharing arrangements in the LGPS, such as pass-through
- issues relating to academy schools in English LGPS Funds
Comment & Insight
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Blog post 2019 actuarial valuation: early assumptions indications
The valuation process for LGPS Funds is now underway and while the information for the valuation is not yet available, we can provide some indications of the methods we will be proposing and the direction in which we anticipate the results will go.
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Blog post Scottish LGPS structure review: considerations and consequences
Louise Lau, Actuary, provides some initial thoughts around the options put forward in the Scottish LGPS structure consultation and asks: what are some of the considerations to be had and what would be the potential consequences of such changes?
Career
Louise graduated from Heriot Watt University in 2012 with a degree in Actuarial Science and joined Barnett Waddingham a few months later. Louise then qualified as a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2015.
Memberships
- Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Interests
Outside of the office Louise considers herself quite a foodie, regularly trying new foods and baking strange cakes. When she’s not in the kitchen, she also likes a game of badminton, sometimes playing (not so well) in local competitions.