Higher education services
Over 20 years of expert consultancy to the higher education sector
The past few years have been a time of fast-paced change in the Higher Education (HE) sector and Barnett Waddingham have been at the forefront of addressing some of these changes.
Our HE team, led by Paul Hamilton, Partner and Head of Higher Education, have built a reputation for our ability to identify key challenges and help our clients respond to these promptly.
Our HE specific experience stretches over 20 years and includes advice across a top-tier client list, spanning the UK and including both Russell Group and post-92 universities.
The team is superbly equipped to advise scheme trustees and institutions on defined benefit and defined contribution matters ranging from:
- pension scheme funding and investment
- handling administration smoothly and efficiently
- applying state of the art technology to support these schemes
- risk management
- staff well-being
- and pension tax matters.
Our expertise extends across multiple areas:
We also advise on nationwide schemes and extensively on DC schemes.
For any further information on any of these areas, please contact our team below, who will be happy to discuss any of these in more detail.
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Blogs
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Pensions in independent schools: do the TPS costs add up?
This blog looks back on the year since the Government’s decision to increase the required school contributions for the Teache...
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Covid-19 – central bank and government stimulus
The focus these past few days has been on the various stimulus measures central banks and governments have been offering in a...
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Decoding pension scheme benefit design
Most private sector pensions accrual in the UK is now on a DC basis. When legislators think about DB, it is only to worry abo...
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Survey of universities’ disclosures: accounting for pension costs
Looking at the significance of schemes in the context of universities’ overall finances, we explore the assumptions adopted b...
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The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS): what are the options for independent schools?
The Teachers Pension Scheme (TPS) provides Pension, death in service and ill health benefits to its members. This has prompte...
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Property: Is it time for pension schemes to take the next step on the property ladder?
As more of the property market opens up to investments, property should remain an important part of pension scheme’s strategies.
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ESG webinar series: Impact investing
Impact assets or assets that are being managed to take advantage of the opportunities that climate change and ESG create will...
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Urgent actions needed to address the impact of Covid-19 on endgame strategies
The session will bring together Barnett Waddingham’s latest research on UK DB pension schemes with Ernst and Young’s forecast...
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ESG webinar series: Private market assets
The second webinar in our series helps trustees see the opportunities in private markets that can help align their portfolios...
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University Accounting Survey
This is our eighth annual survey of the assumptions adopted by UK universities for determining the value of their pension lia...
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University Accounting Survey
This is our seventh annual survey of the assumptions adopted by UK universities for determining the value of their pension li...
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University Accounting Survey - July 2014
This is our sixth annual survey of the assumptions adopted by UK universities for determining the value of their pension liab...