Speakers
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Vincent McEntegart Vincent, who has 26 years’ investment experience, is an investment manager in Kames Capital’s multi-asset team. He is responsible for managing multi-asset solutions for institutional clients. He joined in 2013 from Goodhart Partners, where he was a partner. Prior to this, he was Co-Head of Investment Manager Research at Hymans Robertson. Vincent has a BSc in Mathematical Sciences from the University of Strathclyde and a Diploma in Actuarial Techniques from the Institute of Actuaries. -
Alan Collins Alan Collins MSci FIA
Alan heads Spence & Partners Corporate Advisory services and has particular expertise in pension scheme de-risking, funding negotiations and discontinuance from an employer perspective, as well as corporate restructuring advice.
Alan’s role incorporates expert assistance for employers, particularly SMEs, with the key financial decisions that they face with regards to their scheme. This includes increasingly important on-going activity around risk mitigation, data quality and funding negotiations, as well as large standalone events such as contracting out cessation, mergers & acquisitions and entry to the PPF.
Alan has gained significant experience in around 15 years of working for leading employee benefits consultants. Alan has been a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries since 2006 and has held formal Scheme Actuary roles since 2008. -
Sammy Cooper-Smith Head of Business Development
Sammy is head of the Rothesay Life business development team. Sammy started his career at Prudential before leaving to join the buy-out start up Paternoster which was acquired by Rothesay Life in 2011. At Rothesay Life’s Sammy has played a lead role in transactions with the pension funds of National Grid, telent, Asda and Allied Domecq amongst others as well as the reinsurance of the Prudential, Zurich Assurance and Aegon annuity portfolios.
