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Mike Kennedy FFA

Mike Kennedy

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Mike has over twenty five years’ experience in the pensions industry as a consulting actuary and latterly as a professional pension trustee. 

 

After ten years as a partner with Barnett Waddingham, Mike became a director at Western Pension Solutions before setting up ProPensions in 2019. He is fully accredited by the Association of Professional Pension Trustees

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Based in Glasgow, he has worked with trustee boards and sponsoring employers from a wide range of sectors right across the UK, providing services to the pension schemes of private and family owned businesses, Plcs and not-for-profit organisations.  His experience covers the full range of issues that can be faced by pension schemes, including:

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  • Setting funding and investment strategies, reflecting the full range of employer covenant gradings 

  • Leading trustees and employers through discussions with the Pensions Regulator on scheme funding issues

  • Establishing and operating appropriate scheme governance frameworks

  • Advising trustee boards on how to deal with complex and often sensitive member issues

  • Securing bulk annuity contracts and dealing with the solvent wind up of the pension scheme

  • Involvement in liability management exercises operated by the sponsoring employer

  • Corporate transactions and restructuring exercises

  • Advice on PPF levy management options

  • Advising trustees of schemes through PPF assessment periods

 

Mike has also been a member of the Law Society of Scotland’s Pensions Committee since 2011.

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