Paul Hamilton

Paul is a Scheme Actuary, and advises a range of UK businesses and trustee bodies on DB pension issues including scheme funding, benefit design, and risk management. He has a particular focus on the higher education sector, schemes open to accrual, and multi-employer schemes.

Paul has overall responsibility for Barnett Waddingham’s services to the Higher Education sector. He advises trustees of schemes in the sector, and universities looking to understand their obligations in respect of the various industry-wide schemes (including USS, TPS, and LGPS). He is also a regular speaker at the annual conference of the British Universities’ Finance Directors’ Group.

In his role overseeing Barnett Waddingham’s services to open schemes, Paul’s focus is on meeting those schemes’ different needs –in terms of the regulatory environment, scheme funding strategy, and also BW’s services. He is also involved in our thought leadership on sustainable benefit design.

Paul was a member of the firm’s Management Board for 6 years, and is a member of the Actuarial Consulting Board, with responsibility for our actuarial systems, including our online strategy modelling tool, Illuminate.

His commercial focus and communication skills ensure his clients understand the relevant dynamics of their pensions responsibilities – whether advising a small employer who has had little previous pensions advice, or an experienced trustee board on an unusual issue.