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UK's NEST Hires Deputy CIO from PPF

John St. Hill will work directly with CIO Mark Fawcett in the newly created position.

The UK’s National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) has added a deputy CIO to its investment team.

John St. Hill, formerly a portfolio manager at the Pension Protection Fund (PPF), has been hired for the newly created role. He will work with CIO Mark Fawcett and the rest of the team as NEST continues to expand, the trust said.

“We’re delighted John will come on board as deputy chief investment officer,” Fawcett said in a statement. “We’re already looking after over £1.3 billion ($1.6 billion) on behalf of our members and that’s set to grow rapidly over the next few years.”

Fawcett said St. Hill’s appointment adds to “the expertise and experience of the investment team at this crucial time.”

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“NEST’s investment team have built a really strong, award-winning investment approach,” St. Hill said. “I’m looking forward to working with Mark Fawcett as the organization continues to focus on giving its members a better income in retirement.”

While at the PPF, St. Hill served as a principal leading the fund’s equity and bond investments. Prior to that role, he was quantitative research director at SEI Investments.

St. Hill has previously held a variety of portfolio management and strategy roles at organizations including IKANO Bank, Steria Mummert Consulting, Coutts Bank, and JP Morgan.

He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

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Forty Under Forty Nominations Open

Recommendations for this year’s list of rising stars in the industry will be accepted until Feb. 20.

It’s time to send in your nominations. CIO is now accepting recommendations for our annual Forty Under Forty list. In previous years, we’ve gathered more than 300 nominations, with the forty individuals who make the cut each year representing the industry’s brightest young talent. 

We want to know who you think should make this year’s list. Email your nominations here before Feb. 20 to be considered.

A few rules:

  1. They have to be asset owners (not managers, or outsourced-CIOs, or multi-family offices)
  2. They have to be under 40 as of April 30, 2017.
  3. They need to be a new potential winner and cannot have been on the list before. Check the 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, and 2012 editions of the list to see who has already appeared on the Forty Under Forty (and is thus ineligible in 2017).

Give us as much information as you can, including nominees’ contact details and what makes them impressive. We’d love to know why you think they’d make great candidates, and any of their worthy accomplishments thus far in their careers.

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Let’s make this inspirational. We’re seeking to shine a spotlight on the rising stars among the next generation and those worth watching. Let’s face it, younger people with ambition, idealism, insight and ability give us good feelings about the future.

In the past, we spotlighted rising all stars such as Jagdeep Bachher, who became the CIO of the University of California Board of Regents within a few short years, and Mark Baumgartner, who went on to take the helm as CIO of Institute for Advanced Study.

So email me your nominations. You will remain anonymous to all but me and my editorial team.

 

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