AMNT Live: Road To Skills For The Future

Maggie Rodger

AMNT Co-Chair

Maggie joined AMNT in 2016 and has been an MNT of The Church of England Pensions Board for 5 years and currently chairs their Audit and Risk Committee. CEPB is a fund for those connected to the Church of England with £3bn AUM, 41000 members and almost 700 employers. It encompasses a number of different schemes including DB, which is open to accrual and new members, plus a number of Hybrid schemes and a small DC scheme for different groups of members. Just to be a little different it is a Charity which also manages retirement housing for Clergy and others serving the Church. CEPB, together with other central Church investment funds, takes ethical and ESG investing very seriously and has an in- house team managing their engagement activities. They were a founder signatory to Net Zero and have committed to using the Net Zero Investment framework.

Tim Brown

VP, Head of UK Institutional Group and EMEA Consultant Relations

Tim Brown is Dimensional’s Head of UK Institutional and Consultant Relations for the EMEA region in the firm’s London office. Within the firm’s Global Client Group, Tim is responsible for Dimensional’s relationships with UK-based institutional investors and consultants across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He joined the firm in May 2011. Prior to joining Dimensional, Tim was a director and head of consultant relations at UBP. Before that, he worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management for five years in European wholesale marking and as a consultant relations manager within UK Institutional. Tim began his career in asset management at HSBC, where he worked within the UK sales team. He graduated with honors in history from the University of Wales.

David Fairs

Partner, LCP

David Fairs is a Partner at LCP and was the former Executive Director of Regulatory Policy, Analysis and Advice at The Pensions Regulator.  During his time at the Regulator he was involved in many high profile policy issues including the development of the new funding code and of course was fully immersed in the challenges arising from the September 2022 Fiscal event, providing evidence on that to the Work and Pensions Select Committee in December last year.

Janice Turner

AMNT Co-Chair

Janice Turner is founding co-chair of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees. She helped to found the AMNT because she believed that the voices of ordinary member-nominated trustees were not being heard. For more than eight years she has been putting forward the views of trustees to the industry and the government.

Janice has been a member of the Department for Work and Pensions Trustees Panel and the Actuarial Users' Committee of the Financial Reporting Council, and was a guest speaker at Harvard Law School's international pensions and capital stewardship conference. She has been named by Pensions Insight as one of the top 50 most influential people in the pensions industry.

Janice believes very strongly in the right and necessity of pension scheme trustees to take seriously the longterm sustainability of their investments. But, faced with the difficulty so many pension schemes have in adopting and implementing environmental, social and governance policies in relation to the stewardship of their investments,  she devised a new approach to ESG, called Red Line Voting.  The campaign continues with government, regulators and the pensions industry to further the rights and ability of pension schemes to direct their own stewardship policy.

Janice has appeared before the Work and Pensions Select Committee to give evidence on behalf of AMNT. She is currently a member of the Financial Reporting Council's Investor Advisory Group.

Janice's pensions background is in the defined benefit sphere, and she is a member-nominated trustee of the BECTU Staff Retirement Scheme. She has achieved the PMI Level 3 Award in Pensions Trusteeship. Janice is employed at BECTU, the film and broadcasting union, as the Editor of the union's journal Stage Screen & Radio magazine and she is also the union's award-winning diversity officer.

Tim Brown

VP, Head of UK Institutional Group and EMEA Consultant Relations

Tim Brown is Dimensional’s Head of UK Institutional and Consultant Relations for the EMEA region in the firm’s London office. Within the firm’s Global Client Group, Tim is responsible for Dimensional’s relationships with UK-based institutional investors and consultants across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He joined the firm in May 2011. Prior to joining Dimensional, Tim was a director and head of consultant relations at UBP. Before that, he worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management for five years in European wholesale marking and as a consultant relations manager within UK Institutional. Tim began his career in asset management at HSBC, where he worked within the UK sales team. He graduated with honors in history from the University of Wales.

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Robin Ellison

Author, Chairman of the Cambridge Colleges’ Federated Pension Scheme, and is General Counsel with STM Group

Robin Ellison is Chairman of the Cambridge Colleges’ Federated Pension Scheme, and is General Counsel with STM Group, based in its London office where he specialises in the development of pensions and investment products. He has acted for a number of government agencies and foreign governments and has been an adviser to the House of Commons Select Committee on Work and Pensions. He wrote a monthly column on pensions law for 40 years for Pensions World.

His study of regulation, Red Tape: managing excess in law, regulation and the courts is published by Cambridge University Press, and he is the author of a number of pension texts including the standard work on pensions law published in four loose-leaf volumes (Sweet & Maxwell), Pension Fund Investment Law (Bloomsbury Professional), The Pension Trustees Handbook (Thorogood, seven editions), and edits the Pension and Benefits Law Reports (Pendragon/Perspective). He now works with a wide variety of UK and international asset managers in relation to regulation and product design. He is currently working on a new book, Rulemaking, intended as a practical guide for regulators and lawmakers, and a fresh edition of the Trustees’ Handbook..He is Visiting Professor in Pensions Law and Economics at The Bayes Business School, City, University of London, and is trustee of a number of pension plans both in the UK and overseas. He gained his PMI Diploma in Pension Trusteeship in 2021.