Speakers
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Neil Dissanayake Neil is a Principal and Director of European Trading for Milliman, where he leads the London team for their global hedging platform, the Milliman Financial Risk Management group.
His team is responsible for the management of European exposures for Milliman’s global hedging clients, which are primarily portfolios of insurance guarantees or risk-managed investment funds. This includes ongoing monitoring of client risk, and executing derivative trades in a wide range of equity, bond, currency and interest rate markets to rebalance hedge positions.
He has an insurance actuary by background, and has a wealth of experience in designing, implementing and managing derivatives-based hedging strategies for insurance companies. In particular, he has a leading expert on retirement income guarantees for multi-asset unit-linked funds, and managing financial risk for those in retirement decumulation. He is also active in thought leadership and responding to industry consultations.
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Russell Ward Russell is a Principal in Milliman’s London office and has been with Milliman since July 2010.
He has had significant involvement in the development of Milliman’s retirement and fund services propositions for the UK market. He has led the production of a number of Milliman white papers, contributed to industry consultations, and supported clients in assessing existing retirement products and designing new ones.
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Ian Colquhoun Ian has worked for Global Financial Services Companies in both the Retirement and Mutual Fund markets, with experience of building and running businesses the UK and Europe.
In the retirement market Ian has been involved with some of the UK’s largest Defined Contribution schemes and their investment structures and has experience of working with Fund Managers on both Defined Benefit and Defined Contribution products.
Ian’s roles have included Managing Director/Board Member of a UK and European Fund Manager, where he was also CF1 for the business, UK Managing Director of Corporate Pensions business for Global Insurance company, and Non-Executive Director of large UK Independent Financial Advisor.
