Speakers
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Sammy Cooper-Smith | Rothesay Life Co-Head of Business Development Sammy is Co-Head of Business Development at Rothesay Life. His role is to lead the deal process, liaising with prospective clients and their advisers from the initial stages through execution. In this role Sammy has worked on a number of risk transfer processes including the reinsurance arrangement with Zurich and the £1.6bn buy-in with the CAA Pension Scheme among others. Sammy has been with Rothesay Life since they acquired Paternoster in 2010 and has worked in pension de-risking for 10 years, and annuities in general for 18 years.
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Arif Joshi | Lazard Asset Management Managing Director, Lazard Asset Management Arif Joshi is a Portfolio Manager/Analyst on Lazard's Emerging Markets Debt team. He began working in the investment field in 1998. Prior to joining Lazard in 2010, Arif was with HSBC Global Asset Management (formerly Halbis) where he served as Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager. At HSBC, Arif was responsible for global emerging markets, focusing on corporate and sovereign credit analysis, risk management and quantitative modeling. He began this role at The Atlantic Advisors LLC (acquired by HSBC in 2005). Prior to HSBC, he was an associate at Strategic Management Group where he advised Fortune 500 companies on finance and corporate strategy. Arif has an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
