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. There are six PODEs within Southdown Consultants: 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. Scott & Steph are both Chartered Actuaries (Fellow) and have extensive actuarial and defined benefit pensions experience. Both Luke & Molly have developed their skills and knowledge from working within Southdown and being mentored by our other PODEs. We believe we have a team with a unique blend of talent and experience, ideally equipped to handle the most straightforward to the most challenging of instructions. Our team has steadily grown since 2020 and we are now twelve in number. You can read below a little about each team member and what they do and if required Our PODE CVs are available to download. Be assured, 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 & Chartered Financial Planner
Steph Miller
Chartered Actuary (Fellow)
Paul Gorman
Director
Luke Gorman
PODE
Scott Haslam, FIA C.Act
Director & Chartered Actuary (Fellow)
Molly Turvey
PODE
Nihal Toora
Pension Analyst
Milly Gorman
Pension Analyst
Our Pension Analysts
Nihal, Milly & 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 all worked on 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 Pension Administrators
Beth, Jessica & Savanna 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
Savanna Liberadzki
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)