Talent Moves in Pension/Insurance Investment 2018

DECEMBER

Frans Prins named independent chairman of Unilever’s Dutch general pension fund

Robert Talbut named an independent adviser for British Airways Pension Trustees

Dominik Kremer leaves Columbia Threadneedle Investments to join Unigestion as Head of Business Development

Franck Nicolas has been named Senior Client Solution Manager at BNP

Tony Newman and Ruth Dombey join LPFA trustee board

Phil Willcock resigns from RPMI

Richard Lee appointed new CFO for LGIM

November

Annacarla Dellepiane joins LGIM as Head ETF Capital Markets

Jonathan Dadswell leaves Columbia Threadneedle

Matt Course leaves XPS

Paul Fulcher joins Milliman from Nomura

Tine Choi Danielsen appointed chief strategist at PFA

Henrik Henriksen leaves PFA to join Velliv

Sion Cole is understood to be leaving Aon

William Riley leaves BlackRock to join LGIM as Deputy CIO

Sonja Laud leaves Fidelity to join LGIM as Deputy CIO

Nicola Kenyon leaves PwC

Benoit Hudon appointed UK Head of Wealth at Mercer

October

Srihari Srivathsa leaves RBS to join Deutsche Bank as Vice President

Julia Stothard leaves Capita

Alex Mitterhuber leaves LGIM to join Mercer

Liya Pozdeeva leaves Deutsche Bank to join Goldman Sachs

Anne Marie Shepherd leaves DWS Group to join LCCG

Alastair Greenlees joins Kempen as Senior Investment Strategist

Craig Stevenson joined Kempen as Director of Consultant Relations

Dan Mikulskis leaves Redington

Liisa Juntunen leaves LGIM to join QMA

John de Courcy-Bower leaves LGIM to join Santander

Mari-Lizette Malherbe announced as Chief Executive UK & Irish Life at Munich Re

September

Antony Barker joins the Pension Superfund as Managing Director

Steve Baker leaves Apollo on gardening leave

Heather Quelch leaves JLT to join TPT as head of Administrations

Adam Davis left KPMG

Simon Bramwell leaves Mercer to join Pacific Life Re

Alan Rubenstein and Marc Hommel leave The Pension Superfund

Ashley Blatter joins BlueBay Asset Management

August

Costas Yiasoumi leaves LGIM

Stefan Rusev leaves Deutsche Bank to join Fidelity International

Juan Landazabal leaves DWS Group to join GAM

July

Mandeep Jagpal leaves Aon Hewitt to join RBC Capital Markets as Vice President

Marc Pautz leaves Mercer to join Insight

Anthony Doyle head of Fixed Income Business Development leaves M&G London for Sydney

Dianne Ramsay leaves LGIM

Gareth Davies leaves Hermes to join DWS as Head of UK Institutional Clients

Alexia Giugni joins DWS as Head of Institutional Clients Southern Europe

Shalin Bhagwan joins DWS as Head of UK Pensions Advisory

Bob Tyley joins LGIM as Strategic Client Director

David Fairs joins The Pensions Regulator (TPR) as Executive Director for Regulatory Policy, Analysis & Advice

June

Chris Parkinson leaves Cardano as Head of Manager Research

Jeev Muthulingam joins NN Investment Partners as Head of Insurance Solutions

Omar Benchekroune leaves BlackRock to join GSAM Insurance Solutions

Timothy Smith joins Capital Four Management from Stamford Associates

Al Denholm leaves Prudential for Aviva Investor Chief Investment Officer Solutions

Rowan Taylor leaves EY to join Zephyrus Partners Limited as a Strategic Pensions Adviser

May

Patrick O’Sullivan moves to Schroders as Solutions Manager

Penelope Cochrane leaves Aviva

Simon Betteley leaves SEI to join Royal London

April

Dom Veney leaves PwC to join PIC

Bill Tweddle leaves Schroders

David Morrow leaves Deutsche for BNY Mellon

March

Mark Vreeswijk joins Kempen as Client Relationship Manager

Greg Wenzerul joins Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

Naomi Burger leaves Deloitte and joins EY

Samuel Berman leaves Amundi to join Kames Capital

Alan Goodman joins Telent Pension scheme as the CIO

Kathleen Gallagher is appointed as Non-Executive Director of LGIM

Line Bergmann joins Danish FSA (Finanstilsynet) as Head of Department for the Supervision of Industry-Wide Occupational Pension Schemes and Corporate Pension Funds

Sarah Smart joins Avida International as Senior Adviser

Eline Lundgren joins BPL Pension as Employee Chair

Harry Horlings joins NN Investment Partners as Director, Institutional Business Development

Lochiel Crafter joins Cyrus Taraporevala as the Head of Global Institutional Business

James MacNevin is rumoured to be appointed as new Head of Asia Pacific for SSGA

Mike Edwards leaves Scottish Widows and joins Aon

Alex Pocock is Head of Investment Consulting at Barnett Waddingham

James Parish joins KAS Bank as Senior Business Development Manager

Michael Callari joins KAS Bank as Business Development Associate

February

Antoine Danzin leaves Morgan Stanley to join ING

Michael Abramson joins Hymans Robertson

Marcus Mollan joins Aviva Insurance as Investment Director

Huw van Steen leaves Schroders

Will Allport joins Vanguard as a Senior Strategist

Simon Males leaves LGIM and joins Muzinich & Co

Peter Ball leaves Kames Capital

Ciarán Barr leaves Railpen

Ashish Shah joins GSAM from Alliance Bernstein

Sebastian Fochet leaves LGIM to join HSBC GAM

Alex Wharton leaves Natixis to join Aviva Investors

January

Eileen Haughey steps down as CEO of BT Pension Scheme

Alex Stewart joins BlackRock as LDI Client Solutions Associate

Fan Wang joins BMO Global Asset Management (EMEA)

Joe Rattenbury leaves KPMG to join Insight Investment

Muhamad Alhilal joins Mercer

Tatiana Preobrazhenskaya joins SCOR

Lettie Dodds joins Alpha FMC

Simon Males joins Muzinich & Co

Jonathan May leaves Amundi to join KGAL

Freddie Ewer leaves Redington to join RLAM

Mili Parekh leaves Kempen to join First Avenue Partners LLP

Qasim Akbar joins Capsicum Re as Director and Producing Broker

David Hollis, Head of Multi Asset at Allianz Global leaves to pursue a role in Singapore

Miles O'Connor joins State Street Global Advisors as Head of EMEA Institutional

Euan Maclarenis leaves Natixis

Tim Gardner leaves AonHewitt