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Pensions World keeps you up to date with the latest news of hires and flyers

Consultants

Capita Hartshead Actuarial and Consultancy Services has appointed Martin Good as a senior consultant to work in its London office. Martin has over 25 years’ experience at Mercer, Towers Perrin, Aon and Hewitt.

Martin Freeman, previously head of development at Profund Solutions, is the new head of technology product strategy at JLT Benefit Solutions.

Mike Roberts has been promoted to executive managing director of Buck Consultants, a Xerox Company, and will be based in New York.

James Lewis has joined Mercer’s outsourcing business as a senior consultant from Aon Consulting. Wayne Fitzgibbon has also joined the firm as a principal and senior consultant in its investment consulting business based in London. He previously worked at Macquarie Investment Bank.

KPMG has appointed Ferdia Byrne as partner and Claire Farrelly as associate partner to its insurance risk and actuarial practice, both joining from Towers Watson.

Lane Clark & Peacock has appointed Martyn Phillips as a senior consultant.

Lawyers

Sacker & Partners has appointed Claire van Rees, from Hogan Lovells, as a solicitor.

Associations

Geoff Ashton (Buck Consultants), Gerry Degaute (Royal Mail) and Anne Jones (Capita Hartshead) have been newly elected to serve on the Pensions Management Institute Council. Susan Smith of Mercer has been re-elected to serve a further term.

As director of policy, Malcolm Small takes on a wider remit at TISA, the Tax Incentivised Savings Association.

Insurance

Pension Corporation has made several appointments to its client services team: Richard Hawke as head of transition programme management: Toby Gravett as PMO manager; Rupinder Eardley as senior transition manager; and Jamie Dobbin as senior pensions administrator, all reporting to Matt Gore.

Investment

Simon Putt, a former head of UK institutional clients at Fidelity, has joined rpmi as head of client investment services.

Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed Marius Penderis as director in the UK pension solutions group.

David Rothon, director of cash and fixed income product management at Northern Trust Global Investments, has been elected to the board of directors of the Institutional Money Market Funds Association.

Star movers

New TPAS management team in place

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) has finalised its senior management restructure with the appointment of Jonathan Kalemera as head of corporate services; Alison-Jane Bailey as head of policy and technical development; Charlotte Jackson as head of information and guidance; and Tony Attubato as head of dispute resolution.

TPAS chief executive Marta Phillips OBE commented: "The new team brings a wealth of experience and expertise in pensions, finance and customer service."

The restructure follows the departure of technical director, Des Hamilton and director of administration, Barry Wilkins, of whom Ms Phillips said: "Both Des and Barry have made invaluable contributions to the development of TPAS, over the past 12 and 20 years respectively."

Mark Wood is JLT chairman

JLT Benefit Solutions has confirmed the appointment of Mark Wood as non-executive chairman.

Before founding Paternoster in 2006, Mark Wood was the former UK chief executive of the insurance giant Prudential (2001–05). Prior to this, he was CEO of AXA UK (1996–2001). He began his career at Price Waterhouse where he qualified as a chartered accountant. He was deputy chairman of the ABI from 1997–2000.

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