Leading IFA and Corporate Benefits Consultancy Origen, today announced that Steve Herbert will join its corporate benefits team as Senior Benefits Education Consultant.

Herbert joins from Truestone Employee Benefits where he was a Senior Consultant and is a high profile employee benefits commentator and seminar speaker. He joins Origen primarily to help its corporate clients to more fully appreciate how employee benefits can be best used to meet their strategic aims as well as developing new business.

Commenting on the appointment, Stephen Greenstreet, Managing Director of Origen, said:

“Steve’s appointment further demonstrates Origen’s commitment to help our corporate clients in this increasingly complex area.  We see this role becoming ever more important to clients, particularly as the introduction of the National Pension Saving Scheme is now approaching, and the move to Flexible Benefits continues to gather pace.”

Herbert is the latest in a series of high profile corporate recruits to Origen.  These include the recent hiring of three senior executives to its management team with Martin Good joining in April as Corporate Development Director, Mark Pearson as Business Development Director, and Chris Holmes as Head of Professional Connections.

Origen

Origen is one of the UK’s leading providers of independent financial advice and services.

Origen’s principal lines of business are:

• advice to small/medium sized companies including specialist planning for the owner-directors,
• communication and education to employees of large corporate clients including executive counselling services and pre-retirement seminars,
• private client advice and solutions,
• provision of advice to affinity groups such as newspaper readers.

Origen has significant expertise in the corporate and high net worth areas. It has its own Self Administered Propositions, a dedicated Research department, Discretionary Fund Management business, Annuity, Mortgage and Healthcare operations.

AEGON UK

• AEGON has assets under administration of £45.2 billion and employs over 4,000 staff. AEGON is part of the AEGON Group, which is one of the world’s largest listed insurers and has assets of approximately Euro 359bn (£250 billion).

For further information

Jonathan Atkins
Head of Media
T. 0207 200 2502 | M. 07740 897373
jonathan.atkins@aegon.co.uk