Hymans Robertson announces two new hires and a promotion within the firms’ LGPS Governance, Administration and Projects (GAP) team. Con Hargrave and Michael Burton, join the leading pensions and financial services consultancy as Consultants, with Claire McDines being promoted to Associate Consultant.  

Prior to joining Hymans Robertson, Con had 17 years’ of experience, including policy work at the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) where he was a Senior Policy Adviser in the local government pensions team.  Con undertook a leading role on the project to legislate for the remedy to the McCloud discrimination in the LGPS. He has also held key roles at the Local Government Association as Pensions Adviser and London Pensions Fund Authority in the employer services team.  

Michael has around 15 years’ experience working across the finance industry, most recently at The Pensions Regulator and the East Sussex Pension Fund (ESPF). At ESPF he led the Governance and Compliance Team, overseeing the development of policies and procedures, providing training, and ensuring Regulatory expectations were met. At TPR, Michael primarily engaged with Public Sector and Private Occupational DB Schemes to resolve breaches of law and improve governance across the market. 

Claire has worked at Hymans Robertson for the past 10 years, initially within the actuarial private sector before joining LGPS as a member of the GAP team.  Claire has experience across all the core GAP team services from the delivery of large-scale data and backlog projects to development of our General Code of Practice Compliance Checker. 

Commenting on what Con and Michael will bring to the team, Susan Black, Head of LGPS GAP, Hymans Robertson, says: 

“I am delighted to welcome Michael and Con to the ever-growing LGPS GAP team.  Michael and Con have a depth of experience and vast understanding of the LGPS and will be a welcome addition to our GAP team.  Both bring an understanding which will enable Hymans Robertson to continue to provide the best service we can to our clients within the local government pensions sector.”  

Commenting on the promotion of Claire, Susan said: 

“With the team growing it’s also great to see Claire’s success and promotion. She has been an integral part of the GAP team helping to deliver some of our most recent developments and drive the team’s digital solutions.”