Richard Boyfield is a Partner in Mercer and leads the Investments and Retirement consulting team. Richard is the relationship manager and actuary to NSW Treasury, Commonwealth Department of Finance, and the Future Fund. Richard’s other clients include NSW TCorp, Cbus, Resolution Life, Coal Services and Active Super.

Richard is heavily involved in policy development in the superannuation industry, and in particular, developing post-retirement solutions and managing pension risk.

As Mercer’s Head of Consulting for Investments & Retirement and previously Strategic Advice and Policy leader, Richard has involvement with many of Mercer’s clients and industry bodies. Richard is also a Director of Mercer Consulting (Australia) Pty Ltd.

He is based in Sydney after transferring in 2013 from the United Kingdom. Prior to returning to Mercer in January 2013, Richard gained five years of experience at Towers Watson as a senior consultant. While working in the UK, Richard specialised in pension risk strategy and was a member of a joint retirement and investment group set up specifically to specialise in this area.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Economics) from Durham University. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia.