PARTICIPANTS Mark Nash
Senior investment manager, Head of fixed income alternatives Jupiter Asset Management
Ben Clissold
Head of fixed income and treasury Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) Investment Management
Ben Clissold has led USS Investment Man- agement’s fixed income strategies since in January 2020, covering government bonds as well as non-government and emerging debt. The maths graduate from Durham University joined the scheme from BlackRock, where he managed its $350bn (£268bn) LDI business in EMEA and chaired the investment oversight committee. Prior to that, Clissold honed his skills at firms including ING, P-Solve and State Street.
Scott Freedman
Fixed income portfolio manager Newton Investment Management
Scott Freedman focuses on global invest- ment-grade and high-yield bonds in the energy, consumer and healthcare sectors. He co-manages the Newton Sustainable Sterling Bond strategy and is part of the firm’s portfolio management team dedicated to all sustainable fixed-income strategies. A chartered accountant by training, he joined Newton in 2009 after spending three years analysing the high yield credit market at Standard Asset Management.
One of Mark Nash’s responsibilities as head of fixed income alternatives at Jupiter is to man- age its Strategic Absolute Return Bond fund. He joined Jupiter in 2016, 15 years after he began his investment career at Invesco. Nash rose to head of multi-sector fixed income at the firm managing its flagship Invesco Bond and Invesco European Bond strategies.
Colin Reedie Head of active strategies Legal & General Investment Management
Colin Reedie has 30 years of bond market experience, specialising in non-government debt. He is currently responsible for LGIM’s global credit strategy as well as its London- based fixed income and global equity teams. He joined the firm in 2005 from Henderson Global Investors where he was head of invest- ment grade credit funds. Reedie has also held positions at Scottish Widows and Scottish Amicable.
Huw Evans Director BESTrustees
Huw Evans chairs six of the seven pension schemes for which he is a trustee. Before joining BESTrustees in 2014, he spent seven years at Willis Towers Watson specialising in pension scheme valuations, mortality and professional affairs. He has also been part of the management team in Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow’s combined benefits consultancy and administration department. Evans was a volunteer for the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries for many years, chairing its pen- sions board.
Celene Lee Principal Buck
Celene Lee has advised pension schemes on investment and financing matters for more than two decades. Before joining Buck, she advised defined benefit pension scheme sponsors on investment strategy, manager selection, liability hedging, de-risking and default fund design for a global consultancy. Lee has also spent time on the provider side as global head of pensions at Moodys Analyt- ics, which provides asset and economic risk modelling to pension investment consultan- cies, banks, insurers and asset managers.
Lloyd Thomas Portfolio manager Border to Coast Pensions Partnership
Lloyd Thomas oversees Border to Coast’s externally managed fixed income funds. He joined the pool in April 2021 to establish a multi-asset credit fund. Thomas brings more than 12 years’ experience of managing absolute return strategies to the pool during his time at Insight Investment and Mediola- num Asset Management.
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