Speakers
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John Reeve - Premier Pensions John is a qualified actuary focusing on advice to Trustee Boards and Employers regarding the effective and efficient management of their pension arrangements. John has deliberately decided not to hold a Scheme Actuary Certificate so that he can focus more on advising clients and not be distracted by the compliance requirements that go with the statutory role. Having managed large organisations in the past, John now brings his business knowledge and experience to help clients manage their arrangements in the interests of their business and the pension plan members. Over the past 5 years, John has advised a number of clients with regards to de-risking options including ETVs, Trivial Pensions exercises, buy-ins and buy-outs, focusing primarily on options that are in the interests of the members, the employer and the trustees. John is recognised for his clear explanation of complex issues and on creating pragmatic solutions to the problems that clients face.
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Stephen Bowles - Schroders Stephen Bowles, Head of UK Institutional Defined Contribution, Schroders
Stephen joined the UK Institutional Business Development team in 2008, with responsibility for defined contribution, including sales and marketing to UK defined contribution pension schemes and their consultants. Stephen previously worked at Prudential with responsibility for the institutional investment only platform. Prior to that, as a pensions and investment consultant with Hewitt Associates and was a pension scheme administration manager with both Fidelity and Friends Provident. Commenced pensions/investment career in 1995. Stephen has an Investment Management Certificate (IMC) and Associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute and graduated with a BSc in Economics and Politics from Bath University.
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Alistair Byrne - State Street Global Advisors Alistair Bryne is a Senior DC Investment Strategist in State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) UK DC business. He is responsible for developing SSGA's investment proposition for UK DC clients, working with consultants, platforms, plan sponsors and trustees. Alistair joined SSGA in 2014. Prior to joining SSGA, Alistair was a Senior DC Investment Consultant at Towers Watson, where he advised a number of large DC plans and led a team of consultants and analysts. He has over 20 years professional experience, including as a management consultant advising financial services firms, a business school academic and a number of senior investment management roles at AEGON UK. Alistair is an honorary professor at the University of Edinburgh Business School, and a Fellow of the Pensions Institute at Cass Business School in London. He is known for thought leadership in the DC market and his research has been widely published. Alistair has a PhD in finance from the University of Strathclyde and is a CFA charter holder.
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Simon Grover - Quietroom Simon Grover is a Senior Writer and Workshop Leader at Quietroom. Quietroom is a team of writers, trainers and strategists. Their clients usually have tricky or technical stories to tell. Quietroom help them talk in a way that’s clear, vivid and real, so their story makes sense, their ideas come to life, and their message sticks. Quietroom’s work has tripled sales, halved complaints and once saved a bank £500m it expected to lose. Over the last eight years at Quietroom, Simon has worked on pensions-related projects for clients including Whitbread, Kodak Pension Plan, B&CE, Invensys, Irish Life, JLT, Atkins, First Group, Lloyds bank and NAPF. He’s currently writing and producing a dozen or more pension animations for KPMG. His work with Whitbread on their pension scheme helped increase the rate of people joining by 17 times, earning Whitbread an award for DC Scheme of the Year. Simon is also an actor and a scriptwriter for children’s TV. If you’ve got young children you may remember him from Gigglebiz. Slightly older viewers may have spotted him (briefly) as a Deatheater in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Chris Wagstaff - Columbia Threadneedle Chris has over 30 years experience of the finance and investment industry and regularly features in the pensions press. As Head of Pensions and Investment Education at Columbia Threadneedle, Chris is responsible for raising the firm’s presence and profile in the global institutional market – principally the UK pensions market – mainly through thought leadership and other generic educational initiatives. Prior to this, Chris was Client Director of Cass Business School Executive Education and Head of Investment Education at Aviva Investors. Chris is also Investment Committee Chairman and Independent Trustee Director of two pension schemes and a Senior Visiting Fellow at Cass Business School.
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