Edward Symes

I am a proactive scheme actuary and lead a wide range of trustee, charity and corporate clients. I am a strong all-rounder and help my clients solve their problems in a pragmatic and commercial way.

I enjoy getting to know my clients really well and building relationships over the long term. I then work with them to help them achieve their objectives for their pension arrangements. This can include smaller milestones, such as agreeing a good funding plan for a valuation to bigger milestones like executing their endgames through reaching full insurance or running a Scheme on.

Some recent highlights include helping a client with a distressed sponsor carry out an accelerated insurance process to secure member benefits, advising on how to use surplus to provide additional increases and helping a client halve their funding deficit and investment risk.

Internally I am the Head of London actuarial people with responsibility for pay, promotions, recruitment and resourcing. I am passionate about bringing on the next generation of actuaries and take time to invest in the development of our people.

I joined LCP in 2005 as a graduate and had an unusual route into becoming an actuary, having studied history at university.