The NAPF has appointed Helen Forrest as their new head of policy and advocacy to strengthen policy work. She will work alongside Mel Duffield, head of research and strategic policy, and will report to Darren Philp, director of policy. Helen joins on 24 September from the DWP where she led the Pensions Stakeholder Team.

Baring Asset Management has appointed Christopher Mahon as director of asset allocation research, based in London. He reports to Percival Stanion, head of the Global Multi Asset Group. He is responsible for multi asset investment, providing strategic recommendations for asset allocation to the multi asset team. He joins Barings from Momentum Global Investment Management where he was head of investment strategy and lead portfolio manager for their flagship multi asset funds.

Aberdeen Asset Management has recruited Julie Pine as client director at the Group’s London office to focus on building relationships with UK pension funds and other institutional clients. The group manages £31bn in assets for UK institutional clients over equity, fixed income, property and investment solution mandates.

Blackrock has hired Arnos Kitts as head of UK institutional and is responsible for pension funds and other institutions and Andy Tunningley as head of the UK strategic team, responsible for Blackrock’s largest UK institutional clients. Kitts joins from Henderson Global Investors where he spent 9 years and has also served as chairman of the NAPF Investment Council and IMA’s Institutional Business Committee. Tunningley held global leadership positions at Aon Hewitt in his 21 years in investment management consulting businesses. He held the position of global practice leader in the Investment Consulting division.

Ignis Asset Management has appointed Jo Howley as product specialist of LDI and fixed income. She will be responsible for growing Ignis’ business in these areas and will work closely with Ignis’ investment professionals and clients, and interact with all distribution channels. She joins from BlackRock where she worked since 1997 and played a key role in helping to establish BlackRock as one of the UK’s leading providers of LDI solutions.

Ignis Asset Management also appointed Martin Powis as institutional sales director and will be responsible for managing key institutional accounts and developing Ignis’ institutional business in the UK across a broad range of capabilities. Martin will be based in London and will report to Liisa Juntunen, head of UK institutional. He joins from Deutsche Asset Management where he was vice president institutional, responsible for corporate pension scheme, local authority and consultant relations.

Source Pensions has expanded their London team with the appointment of Garry Crackle as sales and implementation manager and Brian Curran as business analyst. Garry Crackle has over 30 years experience in finance service, notably with Standard Life and Legal & General working with IFAs. Brian Curran joins from Source Pensions in Dublin where he carried out extensive research into the UK market before moving to the London office in June.

Invesco Perpetual has appointed David Millar, David Jubb and Richard Batty to form a new multi-asset group as part of its Henley investment team. The new group will build on Invesco’s successful Atlanta-based global multi-asset capability. They have extensive experience in the successful development and implementation of multi-asset strategies gained most recently as senior members of the renowned multi-asset team at Standard Life Investments in Edinburgh.

ITM has announced an expansion with three senior appointments. Cyrus Manechksha joins as head of operations (consulting), Duncan Hollowood joins as head of operations (systems development) and Clive Hamilton joins as senior business development consultant. Cyrus Manecksha joins from Capita Hartshead where he was senior consultant. He is a Prince2 qualified practitioner and joins with over 20 years experience in pension administration consulting. He will lead the ITM consulting team and lead on a wide range of ITM data and administration consulting projects.

Duncan Hollowood joins from RM Data Solutions as development director. With over 25 years experience as a software professional and technologist in the Microsoft toolset, he is a Prince2 qualified practitioner. He will lead the systems development team covering the ITM PenScope, eDAaRT, eAsE and eMember applications. Clive Hamilton joins from Willis and has held senior business development roles and over 25 years experience in pensions business development and is a member of the NAPF Manchester Group. He will lead business development initiatives covering all consulting services and systems products.

Sacker & Partners has recruited solicitor Sonya Fraser, raising the firm’s total number of lawyers to 55. She joins from Allen & Overy where she was a pensions associate advising corporate and trustee clients on UK pensions law and her experience spans issues including auto-enrolment, the Bribery Act 2010 and TUPE, plus advising on Beckmann and Martin pensions rights on both the buy and sell-side. Sonya is an associate member of the Association of Pensions Lawyers.

Standard Life Investments has announced Wesley McCoy has rejoined the company as investment director in their global equities team. He joined Standard Life Investments in 1999 in UK retail and institutional management and was fund manager for the UK Equity Unconstrained Fund launched in 2005. He left in 2008 to pursue charity work in Malawi with the Microloan Foundation. Since his return he has worked for Odey Asset Management on their global multi asset hedge fund.

Old Mutual Asset Managers (UK) has appointed Tim Barker as head of credit research within their fixed income and macro team. He has over 20 years experience in credit research and joins from Société Générale where he was Head of European Credit Research. He will report to Stewart Cowley, head of fixed income and macro, who said the appointment is a key development for the fixed income team and their intent to compete with larger players in the corporate bond market.

Legal & General has appointed Dominic Carpenter as sales director. He has extensive knowledge of the pension de-risking market and joins from Credit Suisse where he arranged large international structured de-risking transactions, including the first longevity swap deal in the UK longevity market.

AXA Investment Managers are strengthening their LDI offering to UK clients from being at the forefront of LDI in Continental Europe. They have hired Shalin Bhagwan as UK head of Liability Driven Investment and Lucy Barron as senior pensions solution manager within its multi asset client solutions team. Both join from Legal and General Investment Management.

S&P Capital IQ has hired Roger Hirst vice president and director of equity research operations, who has 25 years experience in equity research including leadership positions in Bear Stearns, Dresdner Bank and Shroder Securities. Meanwhile, William Mack, CFA, has returned to S&P Capital IQ as consumer products analyst as an 18-year veteran equity analyst. He was with S&P Capital IQ for four years ending in 2007 and most recently a portfolio manager/analyst at Bank of Butterfield in the Cayman Islands. Roderick Wallace, CFA, also joined S&P Capital IQ, as equity insurance analyst. He was most recently a senior analyst at Brown Vanneck Partners and previously in the equity departments at Barclays Wealth and Gerrard Investment Management.

Punter Southall’s head of client services, Joanne Livingstone, is appointed to the UK’s Actuarial Council. Joanne is also Punter Southall’s technical director and principal and joins the council, part of the Financial Reporting Council, which sets technical actuarial standards and oversees the profession in the UK. She was previously a tutor with ActEd and actuary with Bacon & Woodrow.

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