Blackrock has announced that Paul Tebbit has joined its UK real estate team as a director. He will use his property investment and finance experience to source new opportunities for the UK property fund. Tebbit joins from Telereal Trillium where he dealt with debt raising, valuation and transaction structuring. Prior to joining Telereal Trillium, Tebbit worked as an acquisitions manager at Wesgroup Properties in Vancouver, Canada

Brendan Coffey has joined Capita Hartshead’s investment consulting team. Coffey joins as senior investment consultant and specialises in investments and derivatives and works with pension funds to help them manage and reduce their investment risk. Prior to this role, Coffey worked at HSBC Actuaries and Consultants/JLT where he dealt with asset liability modelling, transition management and performance monitoring. Heena Desai has also been appointed as associate consultant and moves across to investment consulting from Capita Hartshead’s annuity team. She will advise trustees on AVC investments for schemes that are in wind up.

Burges Salmon has strengthened its pensions team with five new appointments. The new members are, Bethan Edwards who joins from Linklaters, Catrin Young who joins from TLT, Helen Trethewey who joins as an associate from Bond Pearce, and Chris Brown and Andy Prater who trained at Burges Salmon and qualified as solicitors into the pension’s team in September.

AXA Investment Managers has announced the appointment of Madeline Forrester as head of institutional sales UK. Forrester will be responsible for the ongoing development and promotion of AXA IM’s proposition for the institutional market in the UK. She joins from Threadneedle where she led the company’s business expansion in the UK.

Sacker & Partners LLP has appointed Joanna Smith and Sarah Henderson as solicitors. Both solicitors will advise on general pensions arrangements. Smith joins from Hogan Lovells International LLP, where she was a senior associate in the pensions group, advising companies and trustees on benefit changes, pension scheme mergers and corporate transactions. Henderson joins from SNR Denton UK LLP where she advised trustees and companies operating large occupational pension schemes and assessed the impact of new law on those schemes.

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has appointed Zitah McMillan as its new communications director. She will take up her new role in January and joins from the Department for Work and Pensions where she was acting director of communications. McMillan has also worked at worldwide communications agency, Publicis, dealing with a variety of global blue-chip brands.

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