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Ian Hammond
Managing Director
Managing Director
Ian Hammond
Ian Hammond was born in Birkenhead and educated at Birkenhead School. He joined Duncan C Fraser & Co, Consulting Actuaries in Liverpool, and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1973. He joined UK Provident as Pensions Actuary in 1974 looking after all the insured pension products of the company, leaving in 1986 as Deputy General Manager (Pensions). Ian Hammond took up the role of Managing Director and Actuary at James Hay Pension Trustees Limited in 1986, when James Hay was just eight people and has led the business since then, concentrating since the year 2000 on the SSAS Division.
In early 1991, Ian was involved in the production of the first Self Invested Personal Pension launched by Personal Pension Management Limited and was Managing Director of that company for a time.
Ian has been a Pensioneer Trustee and involved with small self-administered schemes since 1979. He is a former Chairman of the Association of Pensioneer Trustees and Deputy Regional Organiser for the South West of England for the Pensions Advisory Services (PAS).