Speakers
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Lok Ma Lok Ma, Solutions Specialist, Willis Towers Watson
Lok is a solutions specialist with over 20 years’ experience at Willis Towers Watson, across both the Retirement and Investment Practices. He works mainly with well-funded pension scheme clients looking to adopt a low-risk strategy as they prepare for the end game. His areas of specialism include Integrated Risk Management (IRM) and Cashflow Driven Investment (CDI). Lok is a member of the IRM Working Party for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and chairs our internal Run-Off Technical Committee.
Besides working with clients, Lok writes articles for WTW and a variety of external publications. During lockdown he also began the “PODfolio” podcast for WTW, interviewing a variety of expert guests on the latest investment hot topics.
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Professor John Van Reenen Professor John Van Reenen, Professor, London School of Economics and Digital Fellow, Massachusetts Institute for Technology
John Van Reenen is Ronald Coase School Professor at the London School of Economics and Digital Fellow, Institute for the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT). Until 2020 he was Gordon Billard Professor MIT Economics Department and Sloan Management School. He has published over a hundred papers on many areas in economics with a particular focus on firm performance and the causes and consequences of innovation.
He was the 2009 winner of the Yrjö Jahnsson Award (the European equivalent of the Clark Medal); the Arrow Prize (2011); the European Investment Bank Prize (2014), and the HBR-McKinsey Award (2018). He is a fellow of the British Academy, the Econometric Society, the NBER, CEPR and the Society of Labor Economists. In 2017, he was awarded an OBE for “services to public policy and economics” by the Queen.
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Nick Horsfall Nick Horsfall, Managing Director, Redington
Nick is fascinated by assets, risk, returns, economics and stats. They are ever-evolving challenges, and helping clients navigate those challenges is a joy. Nick has over 30 years’ experience in the Investment Industry, focusing on strategy and risk management. His specialisation for most of that period has been risk management, primarily through managing and hedging interest rate, inflation, credit and longevity risk. Nick’s view is that bad risk management can destroy a journey plan, but good risk management provides the framework for financial security and a base on which to build real long term sustainable value.
