Our experts

Meet our experts

Our leading and respected industry team – made up of various ex-government and industry experts – analyses legislative and regulatory developments and industry issues. They’ve been doing a lot of work over the last few years on pensions reform, presenting their views in blogs, factsheets and the press, and are actively helping to shape the way forward. And our leading centre of technical excellence helps over 1,200 advisers a month with technical queries.

Take advantage of our expertise to prepare your clients for the changes.

Kate Smith

Kate Smith

Regulatory Strategy Manager

Kate joined AEGON in August 2006 having worked for a number of pension organisations, including PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and Mercers HR Consulting, and has over 20 years of experience in the pensions industry.

Kate is currently focusing on the changing pension environment and how this will look like in the run-up to and beyond 2012 following the implementation of Pensions Reform and other regulatory initiatives. She speaks on and writes about pension regulatory issues and comments on pension issues in the financial press. Kate's emphasis is lobbying for good outcomes for customers and 'workable' regulation for smaller and medium sized employers.

Kate is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute (PMI) and is the Treasurer of the PMI Scottish Regional Group. She's also a member of the ABI Pensions and Savings Strategy Committee and Retirement Income Group and represents AEGON on the Defined Contribution sub-group of the Investment Governance Group.

Martin Haggart Philip Hurst John Reynolds

Sales Technical development team

Martin, Phil and John have over 50 years' service with AEGON between them and are members of the Sales Technical Development team, based at our Edinburgh head office.

Over the last few years, they've built a strong reputation for their knowledge and technical expertise throughout the UK adviser network.

With pensions reform being a hot topic, they've been spending a lot of their time helping advisers to identify opportunities that will bring the maximum benefits to clients in the run-up to 2012 and beyond.