Speakers
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Christopher Fawcett Senior Investment Officer Christopher Fawcett is Senior Investment Officer and is a member of Permal’s Investment Committee. He co-founded Fauchier Partners in 1994, having previously worked at Euris SA, a French investment holding company with substantial investments in private equity and hedge funds. Beforehand, he worked at Morgan Grenfell, Industrial Technology Securities (a venture capital company of which he was co-founder), and at the Dumenil Group. Mr. Fawcett is a former director of the Hedge Funds Standard Board Ltd., was a director of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) from 2000 to 2012 - Chairman from 2002 to 2008 - and was a director of the CFA Society UK Ltd. from 2007 to 2011. Mr. Fawcett has an M.A. in Law from Oxford University, an M.B.A. with distinction from INSEAD, and is a qualified Chartered Accountant.
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Paul Dackombe Paul Dackombe, Partner and Managing Director: Man GLG Paul is responsible for the UK Institutional and Middle East client business at Man Group GLG, based in London. Paul has 25 years of financial industry experience, gained mainly within investment banking, where he has held a variety of posts, largely within the Securities Financing, Prime Brokerage and Listed Derivatives areas, working for Citibank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and Merrill Lynch. He has worked in both the UK and the US. In addition to his investment banking experience Paul has held roles with Analyst Plc a UK based investment management firm and Reech Capital, a risk and derivatives advisory company. In his spare time, Paul is a musician and also enjoys mountaineering, skiing, football and golf. Paul runs a small music management, publishing and record label business as an aside from his day to day business activities and also coaches children’s football as a qualified FA coach.
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Martin Veasey Martin Veasey, Independent Pensions Trustee and Pensions Consultant. Martin acts primarily as a professional trustee and as a writer on pension matters but also offers general investment committee and governance support as well as project management and implementation expertise through his company, Veasey Associates. He has a particular interest in journey planning and asset-liability strategy in Defined Benefit, the behavioural aspects of Defined Contribution design, and in forward planning to mitigate the challenges posed by the rapid pace of regulatory and marketplace change in pensions. At the moment, topics of interest include the current round of European IORP proposals, managing the impact of central clearing on forward liquidity planning, and the investment governance of contract-based pension arrangements. Prior to setting up his own practice, Martin was responsible for managing the in-house investment team for one of the major FTSE 100 Defined Benefit schemes with responsibilities including resource and agenda management for its Investment Committee, transition management and implementation, trustee reporting, and ideas generation. He has also worked for over 25 years in the structuring, delivery and risk management of fund management and investment banking products in a variety of businesses.
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Adam Sorab Pensions Manager Adam sits on the BUPA Pension Fund Investment Committee as an independent member, a position he has occupied since 2009.
Adam is a hedge fund manager and from 2004 until recently he was head of Technical research at CQS. Prior to joining CQS in 2004, Adam was a Director of Absolute Return Strategies at Deutsche Asset Management in London, responsible for Europe & Middle East. Adam joined DeAM from Credit Suisse first Boston, where he was a founding member and Director of the firms hedge fund operation, the Leveraged Funds Group. Before this, he worked at Schroders in London as a currency and interest rates derivatives trader.
Adam holds a BSc (Hons) in Economics from the London School of Economics (1984). He was President of the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) from 2009 to 2012 and is a Fellow and former Chairman of the UK's Society of Technical Analysts (STA).
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