Speakers
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John Reeve John Reeve is a Senior Consultant at Premier. After a long career at a number of the large consultancies John now focuses on helping clients to manage their pension arrangements. He has a particular interest in member service having been a former MD of Administration for one TPA and former chair of Raising Standards of Pensions Administration (now PASA).
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Chris van der Gulik Chris is a senior risk manager for pension schemes at KAS BANK. As part of this he is the delegated Risk manager or investment committee member for several mid-sized pension schemes in the Netherlands. He joined KAS BANK in 2002 as a senior Performance analyst and is qualified as a Financial analyst and Financial Risk Manager. His main areas of expertise are risk monitoring solutions in the field of compliance, overlay hedging strategies and scenario and stress test analysis.
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Jonathan Crowther Head of UK Liability Driven Investing With 25 years' experience, Jonathan joined AXA-IM in 2013 to build AXA-IM's LDI capability; establishing the governance, resources and strategy to deliver best-in-class, de-risking solutions to UK pension schemes.
Previously at LGIM, Jonathan was a founding member of its Solutions Group overseeing delivery of advanced risk management and hedging solutions to 100 schemes. Jonathan was engaged in all aspects of the LDI business. When a Senior Consultant at Watson Wyatt, Jonathan specialised in LDI, governance and risk budgeting.
Jonathan is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
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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.