Speakers
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Michelle Cracknell | The Pensions Advisory Service Michelle Cracknell was appointed Chief Executive of the Pensions Advisory Service in October 2013. Michelle started her career as a pensions adviser for Advisory & Brokerage Services Ltd, where she worked for 20 years becoming a director and qualifying as an Actuary in 1997. In 2007, she joined Skandia as the Strategy Director and continued her interest in investment platforms and pensions when she left to work as a consultant. She is a regular commentator on pension matters in the media. Since taking over, the Pensions Advisory Service has grown from looking after 60,000 customers to now looking after 180,000 customers. Throughout her career, her key desire has been to make pensions more accessible to people through the provision of information and guidance. With her team of pension specialists, she has been able to raise awareness of the public service provided by the Pensions Advisory Service.
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Dylan Ball | Franklin Templeton Investments Dylan Ball is a Portfolio Manager for the Templeton Global Equity Group. Mr. Ball is the lead portfolio on a number of Global, International and European institutional separate accounts. Mr. Ball has research responsibility for MENA banks and Emerging Europe.
Mr. Ball has 20 years of industry experience, 10 of which have been at Templeton. He was formerly a research analyst with Credit Suisse First Boston, prior to which Mr. Ball was a chartered accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Mr. Ball holds a B.A. in Economics from Manchester University, United Kingdom. He is a Chartered Accountant (ACA), a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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Jillian Reid | Mercer Jillian Reid is a Principal in Mercer’s Responsible Investment team, based in London. The team assists investors to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors within their beliefs, policies, processes and portfolios.
Jillian began at Mercer, in Sydney, in January 2004, transitioning to Responsible Investment in late 2011, and to London in late 2014. Prior to her time at Mercer, Jillian spent five years at an Australian multi-manager, after beginning her career teaching high school students.
Jillian was project manager and a core team member for Investing in a Time of Climate Change (2015); was a key contributor to Mercer’s SITA governance tool development in 2014 for sensitive investment topics; she delivered on projects in 2013 for the International Finance Corporation and the Global Investor Coalition on Climate Change; and in 2012 she co-authored Mercer’s First Peoples Settlements Peer Practices Report.
Jillian holds a Master of Development Studies from the University of New South Wales, a Bachelor of Arts and a Diploma of Education, from the University of Newcastle, and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment from the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.
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Maureen D’Alleva | Angelo Gordon Maureen D’Alleva joined Angelo, Gordon in 2003 to focus on investments in the leveraged loan market. She is a Managing Director and head of the firm’s leveraged loan and high yield businesses and portfolio manager of the firm’s Northwoods Capital CLOs, the Diversified Credit Strategies and Income Funds and several separate accounts. Prior to joining the firm, she spent 15 years with Morgan Stanley as a Vice President in its Global High Yield group where she focused on investment analysis and underwriting of both bank loans and bonds. Maureen holds a B.A. degree from Baruch College.
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Russ Hope | Quietroom Russ Hope is a senior writer at Quietroom, a team of writers, trainers and strategists. Quietroom helps clients in health, money, energy and society communicate in a way that’s clear, vivid and real. Changing their client’s language has tripled sales, halved complaints and once saved a bank £500m of business it expected to lose.
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Dawid Konotey-Ahulu | Redington Dawid is Co-Founder of Redington, which advises large pension funds around the world. Redington believes there is a way to solve the pensions challenge, and that it involves bringing together great minds in conversation, as well as connecting unlikely dots to provide new and better ways for pension funds to reach their goals.
Dawid qualified as a barrister of Lincoln’s Inn in 1987, before transitioning into banking to work for NatWest Capital Markets in 1990. He joined Merrill Lynch in 2000 where, in his last role, he was Managing Director responsible for Merrill Lynch’s Pensions and Insurance Group, Europe.
In 2003 he implemented the market’s first full derivative LDI hedge for a defined benefit pension fund, making history in the risk management arena. In 2005 on the advice of his clients, he left Merrill Lynch and, with Robert Gardner, set up Redington.
In 2009, Dawid took the lead in setting up the firm’s second business, mallowstreet.com, which is now the established online community for the UK pensions industry. The 3,500 members of the site represent over £2.4 trillion in pension fund assets through 700 pension schemes. Pension plan trustees and CIOs come together on the platform to discuss their issues in forums and in blogs. mallowstreet is also home to solutions providers: asset managers, hedge funds, investment consultants, actuaries, lawyers, and other assorted wise people. mallowstreet has won an award or two for innovation in pensions.
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Robert Gardner | Redington Robert is co-founder of Redington, an Investment Consultancy that designs, develops and delivers investment strategies to pension funds and insurance companies around the world. Redington advises clients with over £300bn of assets. In 2008, Robert co-founded mallowstreet.com, the online community for the pensions industry. In 2012, Robert founded RedSTART, a financial literacy education program to help young people feel confident and in control of their financial future. He was named one of aiCIO’s world’s 25 most influential investment consultants and one of the top 50 most influential people in pensions by Pensions Insight.
Outside of the world of pensions, Robert is a tennis enthusiast as well as an avid supporter of Commando Spirit, a charity supporting ex-marines and their families; he recently abseiled down the Shard to raise money for them. He is also a board member of the Catalyst Club, part of Cancer Research UK, whose aim is to bring forward the day we cure cancer.
Prior to Redington, Robert was a Director in Merrill Lynch’s Insurance and Pensions Solutions Group. He started his career at Deutsche Bank in 2000 and is an alumnus of St Anne’s College, Oxford.
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Michael Temple | Pioneer Investments Michael Temple is Senior Vice President of Pioneer Investment Management, Inc., the US investment division of Pioneer Investments, and Director of Credit Research, U.S. He is responsible for oversight of Pioneer Investments’ US credit research department. His duties include independent research of credits, sector analysis, and co-ordination of research efforts in high yield, bank loan, investment grade, emerging markets and municipal credit. He has been the Portfolio Manager of an institutional “Credit Opportunity” strategy since 2008, and is also a Portfolio Manager of Pioneer Absolute Return Credit Fund.
Prior to joining Pioneer Investments in 2002, he was a Portfolio Manager at Boston Partners Asset Management, where he helped manage US$1.5B in institutional Core Plus strategies. He was also a Senior Credit Analyst at Putnam Investments, where he was responsible for the analysis of investment grade, high yield and emerging market investments. He was also a senior credit analyst at Duff and Phelps in Chicag and the Director of Planning and Investor Relations for the Public Service Company of New Mexico.
Michael received a BA and MBA from the University of Colorado in 1982 and 1984, respectively.
