Dr Chris Sier (Dec 1966 to Nov 2025)

Chris Sier has died aged 58, rigorous to the end he finally lost his long fight with Colon Cancer diagnosed in 2023. He has been seeing friends at his bed in Guys hospital and those who have said goodbye all testify to his brave approach to what he knew to be his imminent death.

Chris died in the morning on Sunday November 2nd. His wife will be arranging a memorial service. If you want to pay your respects, please contact me on henry@agewage.com.

Chris’ wife has sent a short tribute

For the last two years, he fought his cancer battle with the incredible bravery and stubbornness that defined his entire life. Though he was strong, the disease proved too much for the treatments available.

Chris simply wasn’t finished. He always had big, bold dreams and a relentless drive to experience and achieve more. He truly made a difference in so many lives, living many amazing chapters—as a marine biologist, a police officer, an entrepreneur who transformed the asset management industry, and most importantly, as a generous friend, son, father, and my husband. He was also fun, and would always find a way to make people laugh. We will all miss him dearly.

He has a fine family and he has done great things with his life, details of which are at the end of this tribute. I knew him through his work on transparency made by pension funds.

He was instrumental in improving transparency so pension schemes can measure value for the money they pay to have funds managed. He was influential in the way the FCA approached this subject and his templates have generally been adopted by organisations wishing to know how much they are paying. His company, Clearglass has taken this forward commercially and he wanted that it remained and continued that work. We hope it will with the work of his wife.

An academic, a business man and at outset a policeman he was a disciplinarian with an intense attention to detail determined that business was carried out properly. He co-founded my company AgeWage and remains the second largest shareholder.

To many he will be known for the Transparency Task Force which he set up with Con Keating and Andy Agethangelou ten years ago. That organisation has continued to strive for the standards that he set and Andy will be publishing his tribute separately.

He has had a huge following in many areas. One is the LGPS where Chris has held that pools such as Border and Coast are proof that the highest standards can be achieved. He was known by those who ran Funds as authoritative and has made a difference to standards and the value needed for money Funds invested.

He has the most  affectionate nickname at northern  universities where he was called “Hurricane Chris“. I hope he will continue to be called that.

He was and is in memory someone of great integrity, he could show irascibility when he felt his integrity was challenged but he was a  great inspiration to those who worked with him. The Chris we saw at the end was what we saw when they first met, he did not change for times and circumstances, health could not bend him.

He graduated in Marine Ecology from Newcastle University and completed an MBA at Said Business School, Oxford in 2002.

This is a very fine tribute to him from Fintech North who said goodbye this September.

This job among his many others, were carried on by Chris so long as life would let him. They are listed below. Here are a list of his achievements since setting out on his career over 30 years ago.