Lydia Fearn joins LCP’s DC team, bringing over 20 years of industry experience

Lydia Fearn, who was previously Head of Pensions Consulting at Capita, is joining LCP as a Principal. She will bring over 20 years of expertise in the sector when she returns to the firm that she spent several years at as a senior consultant at the beginning of her career.

Lydia previously created and headed up the DC teams at Redington and Barclays before joining Capita in 2020 and growing and leading the pensions consultancy. She has experience developing and improving client care programmes, making digital transformations to improve service delivery and creating new propositions for clients as the market has evolved.

Lydia has experience advising on the full spectrum of the DC world, from investment strategy design to provider selection and communications. She has advised the largest Master trusts and has a particular passion for making sure that ESG is successfully integrated into investment strategies.

Lydia will be joining LCP’s DC team which has over 50 people and is headed by Laura Myers It currently has over £30bn of DC assets under advice and works for clients such as Co-op, NatWest Group and Morrisons. She will be working on furthering LCP’s DC capabilities in advising Master Trusts.

Laura Myers, Head of LCP’s DC team, commented: “Lydia has fantastic experience across the whole DC pensions landscape and understands the wider investment space, the need to be innovative and the growing importance of ESG. She is already well known in the industry and will be a fantastic asset to the team and our clients, who will benefit from her experience at what is a fast moving DC landscape.”

Lydia Fearn, added: “I’m delighted to be re-joining LCP where I cut my teeth as an investment consultant at the start of my career. The DC team has a reputation for being innovative and giving high quality, people centric advice and I am looking forward to getting started.”