Jon gave a tough talk both in terms of what he had to say and how he said it. It was uncompromising in actuarial integrity. Thee are both at the end and beginning of this video thoughts of the less actuarially committed but at the heart of the video and the slides which I have posted to read and download.

Please take out to listen , watch and read – here is the video of the event

Here are the slides

You can download them here.

Jon qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (as it was) in 1977, since when most of his career has been in different aspects of DB pensions.

Having formerly worked at two large private sector consultancies for 16 years, he was employed by Government Actuary’s Department from January 1990 until May 2018.

Professionally, he was a member of the Pension Fund Valuations & Market Values Working Party (which reported in October 1999) and the Valuation Rates of Interest Working Party (which was terminated before work was completed), serving on Pensions CPD Committee from 2010 until 2016 and is currently a member of the SIAS Committee.

His focus is trying to explain why the long-term future is not at all well addressed by short-term measurements, a battle still being fought.