Plenary speakers

Malcolm Kemp

Managing Director

Nematrian

Nematrian is a company focusing on developing intellectual property and providing consultancy services to the financial services sector. Until mid-2009, Malcolm was an Executive Director and Head of Quantitative Research at Threadneedle Asset Management. This role included responsibility for Threadneedle’s derivatives, performance measurement, risk management, liability driven investment and other quantitative investment activities. He continues to be the actuarial function holder of Threadneedle Pensions Limited.

Prior to working at Threadneedle, Malcolm was a partner at Bacon & Woodrow in their investment consultancy practice.

Ronnie Bowie

President

Faculty of Actuaries

Ronnie joined Hymans Robertson in 1980 and qualified as an actuary the same year. He is scheme actuary and investment advisor to a number of large public and private schemes in both Scotland and England. He is the President of the Faculty of Actuaries and is currently a member of the Profession's management board. He has previously chaired the member support executive committee and the pensions board and has also been a member of the Profession's finance and general purposes committee, its professional affairs board and the scrutiny committee.

Internationally he has been the Faculty's representative on the Pensions Committees of the IAA and the Groupe Consultatif and has been a member of the board and of the executive committee of Abelica Global the international actuarial consultancy organisation of which Hymans Robertson is a member. Away from the actuarial world he is a member of the board of the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice.

Sally Bridgeland

Chief Executive Officer

BP Pension Trustees Limited

As CEO of BP Pension Trustees Limited Sally has the delegated authority to direct and oversee the running of the BP Pension Fund. Her role includes advising the Trustee Board on the Fund’s strategy, executing its investment and administration policies and setting and monitoring performance targets. Her responsibilities require her to draw on her extensive pensions and investment knowledge gained during a 20 year career with benefits consultancy Hewitt Associates.

Sally graduated from Imperial College, London in 1986 with a first class degree in mathematics and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1989. She is currently a member of the Actuarial Profession’s Management Board.

Sally works a three day week to make time for her other interests, principally her growing son, Colin.

Roger Dix

Chairman

Professionalism Awareness Committee

Roger is chairman of the professionalism awareness committee. He has had a varied career in the life assurance sector, although now works mainly on risk and ERM.

Paul Fulcher

Managing Director

RBS

Paul heads the Insurance and Pensions ALM Advisory team for Europe for RBS. He joined RBS in 2009 after eight years at UBS Investment Bank in a similar role. Prior to UBS, Paul worked at HSBC advising on mergers and acquisitions for the life insurance sector in Japan and as an actuarial consultant for PwC. He qualified as an actuary with Friends Provident.

Tony Hewitt

Programme Director

Imperial College Business School

Tony Hewitt is the Programme Director for the two-year day-release MSc in Actuarial Finance at Imperial College Business School. His main interests are Actuarial Practice, Professionalism, and Enterprise Risk Management.
He has practised as a consulting actuary for over 35 years, particularly in the pensions, health and social security areas.

His personal interests include Healthcare Quality Improvement, Collective DC Pension Reform, Professionalism and attracting high quality graduates into the Actuarial Profession.

He is a strong supporter of the Actuarial Profession, helping to create greater awareness of professionalism issues.

John Kay

Economist and Author

London School of Economics

John Kay is a visiting professor of economics at the London School of Economics and a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford. He has been professor of management at Oxford University and professor of economics at the London Business School. He was also director of a think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and founder and executive chairman of the consultancy London Economics.

His principal activity today is writing and he contributes a weekly column to the Financial Times. He has also published a number of books and articles. His latest book, “The long and the short of it: finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry” was published in January 2009.

Colin McLean

Founder and Managing Director

SVM Asset Management Ltd

Colin has been an investor for over 30 years and is a frequent conference speaker in the UK and Europe. He contributes to financial publications and Bloomberg, is a commentator on television and radio, CNBC and BBC. Colin was chairman of the CFA Society of the UK from 2005-2007. He featured in a chapter of Technical Analysis and Behavioural Finance in Fund Management published in 2009. His recent conference presentations and many articles have focused on new developments in behavioural finance, and the implications for management of investment teams and interpretation of information.

Dr Riccardo Rebonato

Head of Front Office Risk Management/Quant. Analytics

RBS

Riccardo is a visiting lecturer at Oxford University in mathematical finance and Adjunct Professor at Imperial College Business School, London. He is also the author of several books including, Coherent Stress Testing: A Bayesian Approach (2010), The Plight of the Fortune Tellers (2007) and The Perfect Hedger and the Fox (2004), Volatility and Correlation in Option Pricing (1999), a published author in various academic journals, and a regular speaker at conferences worldwide.

Bruno Solnik

Emeritus Professor

HEC-Paris

Bruno Solnik is Professor at Hong Kong University of science and Technology and Distinguished Emeritus Professor at HEC-Paris. He was previously on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and has been a visiting professor at the University of California at Berkley, UCLA, Université de Genève, UNSW (Australia) and Todai (University of Tokyo).

His expertise has been called upon by many pension funds, foundations, asset managers and central banks, in Europe, the USA and Asia, to assist them in structuring their asset management efforts. He sits on the Investment Management Advisory Council of Zurich Financial Services.

Elliot Varnell

Principal Advisor

KPMG

Elliot is a Principal Advisor at KPMG LLP where he specialises in Solvency II, ERM and leads on Economic Scenario Generation for Europe.

He joined KPMG in May 2009 having previously been Head of EMEA Insurance for Barrie & Hibbert.

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