PARTICIPANTS


Alan Pickering President BESTrustees


Not only is Alan Pickering president of BESTrustees but he is also a trustee of the retirement plan for plumbers and mechanical engineers as well as for workplace scheme The People’s Pension.


Jim Cielinski


Global head of fixed income Janus Henderson


Jim Cielinski oversees all of Janus Hender- son’s global fixed income products and teams as well as leasing corporate credit. He joined from Columbia Threadneedle in 2017, where he was global head of fixed income for seven years. Before that he spent 12 years at Gold- man Sachs Asset Management as managing director and head of credit. He has also been the head of fixed income for Utah Retire- ment Systems, assistant manager of taxable fixed income for Brown Brothers Harriman & Co and an equity portfolio manager for First Security Investment Management.


Kilian Thevissen Investment manager


National Grid UK Pension Scheme


Since 2016, Kilian Thevissen has been responsible for National Grid’s UK pension scheme’s portfolio construction and manager selection. He also monitors its asset alloca- tion sleeves, which include LDI, fixed income, equities, alternatives and private market investments. Before joining the scheme, he spent seven years at Philips’ pension scheme in the Netherlands, holding various roles within its investment team focusing on analytics and risk management as well as manager selec- tion and monitoring.


His industry experience is vast having served as a non-executive director of The Pensions Regulator and a member of the Occupational Pensions Board. Pickering is also a former chair of the body that is now known as the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) and held the same position at the European Federation for Retirement Provision. In 2002, he wrote the government-sponsored report A Simpler Way to Better Pensions.


Carl Hitchman


Chief investment officer UK investment consulting Buck


Ian MacRae


Pensions investment manager JaguarLandRover


Ian MacRae manages JaguarLandRover’s defined benefit (DB) scheme’s asset and liability risks together with its funding arrange- ments. He also chairs the management com- mittee of the car-maker’s defined contribution (DC) pension scheme.


For nine years MacRae has worked within the treasury function to improve the stability and predictability of the DB scheme’s funding. Before joining JaguarLandRover he was an investment consultant at Mercer in Edinburgh.


Peter Martin


Investment officer Medical Defence Union


Prior to becoming the investment officer of the UK’s largest medical defence unions, Peter Martin was head of manager research at pension consultancy JLT Employee Benefits. Martin sits on the Society of Pension Profes- sionals’ investment committee and represents the organisation in the Debt Management Office’s quarterly consultation.


Carl Hitchman is responsible for Buck’s investment philosophy and approach to advising on managers and markets. This has included strategic asset allocation, asset/ liability modelling, liability-driven investment, cashflow-driven investment, derivatives and asset transfers. His experience extends to asset administration, fiduciary manager over- sight and investment governance. He has spent more than 35 years in the retire- ment industry. He started his career as a pen- sions actuary before becoming an investment consultant in 1993.


May 2021 portfolio institutional roundtable: Fixed income


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