A little bit about us
Southdown Consultants is a professional services firm that specialises in working with family lawyers, mediators and associated professionals. Established in 2020 by Ian Hawkins and Paul Gorman our focus is Pensions On Divorce. Ian & Paul have very similar backgrounds, working in financial planning for many years, with a very strong emphasis on financial planning on divorce and particularly pensions. Our team has steadily grown since 2020 and we are now seven in number. You can read below about each team member and what they do and if required Our Team CV is available to download. You are in reliable and safe hands when instructing us to prepare pension reports for divorce purposes. |
Our Pension On Divorce Experts - PODEs
Our PODEs bring together a rare blend of extensive experience from financial planning on divorce to pension actuarial consultancy
Ian Hawkins
Director
Paul Gorman
Director
Scott Haslam, FIA C.Act
Chartered Actuary (Fellow)
Luke Gorman
Pension Analyst
Our Pension Analysts
Molly & Luke are our Pension Analysts. They are involved on a day to day basis in analytical modelling and preparing initial report outcomes, working very closely with our PODE's.
They have both worked on a large number of cases covering a wide range of both public and private sector pension schemes.
They each assist with the collating of information required for cases and monitoring a reports progress.
Our Trainee Pension Analysts
Nihal & Milly are our Trainee Pension Analysts.
Nihal holds a Mathematics degree while the degree held by Milly has a strong focus on quantitative analysis.
They both work closely with our PODEs, supporting all, while gathering appropriate knowledge and skills.
They assist with the collating of information required for cases and carry out analysis work under supervision.
Milly Gorman
Trainee Pension Analyst
Our Pension Administrators
Beth, Jessica & Samantha are our Pension Administrators, responsible for case management.
They gather and collate the pension data we need for each report, acting as a point of contact for the instructing parties when doing so.
They each draft and prepare our pension reports once our analysts and PODE's have prepared and approved outcomes.
Beth Gorman
Pension Administrator
Jessica Nevin-Lycett
Pension Administrator
Samantha Hulme
Pension Administrator
Testimonials
Making sense of Pension reports associated with divorce can be very complex and time consuming..
Southdown Consultants have produced a report that is easy to understand and jargon free.
The reports are succinct and easily digestible. Clients now have a light to show them the way forward through this dark and complex maze.
Jonathan Darley BSc (Hons), FPFS, Certs CII (MP & ER)