Vanessa advises both trustees and companies on all issues regarding final salary schemes, including actuarial valuations, investment advice, benefit design, scheme wind-ups and mergers and acquisitions.
She is a Scheme Actuary to a wide range of UK and multi-national businesses and believes in the importance of providing clear and concise advice in a friendly and open manner.
Vanessa also specializes in one-off cases, including pension loss due to illness or redundancy, trust apportionments and expert witness work relating to final salary pension schemes.
Scheme actuary to a wide range of UK and multi-national companies
Advice to both trustees and companies on liability-reduction exercises
Project work for companies advising on changes to pension scheme benefits
Preparation of UK and international accounting disclosures for companies
Has been involved in some large prominent Expert Witness cases regarding incorrect payment of benefits to members, equalisation issues, corporate restructuring and the funding of final salary pension schemes
Has been the named expert on pension loss and life trust apportionment cases
Vanessa graduated from Oxford University with a Master’s degree in Physics and joined Barnett Waddingham in 2000 after a year of travelling. She qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2004, became an associate of the firm in 2008 and a partner in 2011.
Outside work, Vanessa enjoys walking and running and is a keen amateur musician, playing the piano and flute.
Vanessa is a fluent French speaker, having been brought up bilingually by a French mother.
