People moves
The Pensions Policy Institute (PPI) has announced the appointment of Matthew Annable as its chairman, in succession to Tom Ross OBE. Matthew will formally join the PPI Council, and become chairman, at the PPI’s next AGM on 4 June 2008.
Tom Ashton has joined Gen Re’s account management team, having joined from consultancy LECG where he worked for Clare Spottiswoode in her negotiations with Norwich Union over the NU Inherited Estate.
The Accountancy & Actuarial Discipline Board has appointed Graham Aslet and Dr Norval Bryson. Mr Aslet is a former executive director of Friends Provident and Dr Bryson is a director of Scottish Widows.
Monoline insurer MBIA announced in February that Joseph Brown will return to the company, resuming his positions as chairman and chief executive officer, and becomes president of MBIA, effective immediately.
Alliance Trust has announced the appointment of John Hylands as a non-executive director of the company with immediate effect. He will join the Audit Committee, becoming its chairman when the current Audit Committee chairman, Gordon McQueen, resigns from the board on 31 March.
Mr AAM Kok AAG, managing director of Watson Wyatt Insurance Consulting BV has indicated that he wants to step down as of 1 August 2008 to further his career elsewhere. Mr Kok, who has worked with Watson Wyatt since June 2003, will concentrate on activities in financial, economic and actuarial fields, including risk management and on his international professional responsibilities as chairman of the Groupe Consultatif.
Watson Wyatt has appointed Mayur Lodhia as an investment consultant in the client consulting team in London. He joins from Old Mutual Asset Managers where he was an investment structuring actuary, prior to which he was a quantitative analyst with African Harvest Fund Managers. In addition, the firm has appointed a number of investment analysts to various teams in Europe. These appointments include: Kevin Jeffrey from Alexander Forbes Financial Services; George Aristides from Deloitte & Touche and Mihir Shah from Barnett Waddingham LLP.
Jarvis Securities has announced the appointment of Graeme McAusland to the board as a non-executive director.
Roger MacNicol has joined Scottish Pensions Trustees, the Scottish arm of Capital Cranfield Trustees, as client director.
Standard Life Investments has announced the appointment of David Millar as investment director, multi-asset investing.
Carl Overy will assume local senior management responsibility in London as OdysseyRe’s new CEO of the London market division.
LV= has announced a new life and pensions management team. John Perks will become customer solutions director, Chris McFarlane has been promoted to the new role of head of protection and pricing.
Scott Robertson has joined JP Morgan as an executive director from HSBC Bank.
Andrew Waring joins the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund as chief executive from Benfield Group.
Neil Robjohns has joined the life team of Barnett Waddingham LLP, where he will act as a consultant on longevity, critical illness and reinsurance. Mr Robjohns was previously head of pricing at Munich Re UK.
Watson Wyatt has appointed Jeremy Nurse to its Insurance and Financial Services practice. Mr Nurse has more than 20 years’ experience in the industry with a number of major UK and international companies.
The Axa Supervisory Board — chaired by Institute honorary fellow Claude Bébéar — met on 27 February. Mr Bébéar confirmed his decision not to seek the renewal of his mandate as a member of the Supervisory Board upon expiration of his mandate on 22 April 2008.
Ian Costain has been appointed head of public affairs at Axa UK. In this role, Mr Costain will be heading up a team that focuses on the key public policy issues that impact the life and pensions, general insurance, and healthcare industries. The team actively engages with government ministers and officials, the regulator, trade bodies, and with other key opinion-formers.
Richard Hall has joined Gazelle Corporate Finance as a director of their pensions advisory team. He joins from rating agency Standard & Poor’s, where he headed their sponsor covenant business, providing covenant assessments on a wide variety of employers. Prior to this, he worked as a consulting actuary for both Mercer and Watson Wyatt.
Pension consultants Hazell Carr have made three senior appointments to their actuarial teams in Stirling and Reading. Jonathan Seed has joined from Buck Consultants as regional head of actuarial services in the Stirling office where he will take on the role of scheme actuary to their largest clients. He is also joined by William Short, from Hewitt in Cork. Thomas Laws has joined the Reading team from Aon.
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Claude Bébéar steps down from Axa Supervisory Board
