Articles - Argyll Scott acquires Acumen Resources’ UK business

 Specialist recruiter Argyll Scott has announced the acquisition of Acumen Resources’ UK business.

 Acumen Resources is a specialist actuarial recruitment agency focusing on permanent and contract actuarial recruitment in the general and life insurance markets in both the corporate and advisory sectors. While continuing to operate under the Acumen Resources brand, Steve Leeson, Managing Director of Acumen Resources UK joins Argyll Scott’s management team.

 John Hunter, CEO, Argyll Scott comments, “We are very pleased to welcome the UK Acumen Resources team into the Argyll Scott family. As specialists in their field, the business fits seamlessly into Argyll Scott’s business model and our strategy of building a series of complementary specialist recruitment practices.”

 Steve Leeson, Acumen Resources comments, “Continued changes to both the regulatory and demographic environment, will, we believe, drive significant growth in demand for actuaries in the near future as well as the longer term. Joining forces with Argyll Scott means we now have the backing and infrastructure that comes with being part of a well established recruitment business. In turn, this will allow us to realise our ambitious plans for the growth of our specialist actuarial practice and become the number one actuarial recruitment practice in the UK.”