SPP Event: Investment Strategies for Different Endgames
Online
Tuesday 13 January 2026
09:00-10:15
Following the Pensions Bill and the outcome of the DB options consultation, the choices available for pension schemes to settle their liabilities over the long-term are becoming clearer. In this session, we will explore the potential implications for future investment strategies, including the different considerations under each option, and ensuring there is sufficient flexibility if objectives change.
Speakers
Dave Aleppo
Managing Director, Willis Towers Watson
Dave is a Managing Director in the Willis Towers Watson UK pensions investment business. His client list spans various corporate sectors and means that Dave has great experience of strategic discussions with Trustees who have very different Sponsor considerations, with complex regulatory requirements and multiple stakeholders. Dave was also Head of our UK Investment Advisory Team for nearly 10 years, before stepping away from business management recently to focus solely on client relationships.
Alastair Baillie Strong
Global Head of Systematic Investing, Fidelity International
Alastair is the Global Head of Systematic Investing at Fidelity, leading the firm’s systematic investment capability across equities and fixed income. He oversees the direction of Fidelity’s systematic approach and its application across portfolios.
He has worked in solutions design, asset management, quantitative modelling, risk analysis and consulting since 2001. Since joining Fidelity in 2015, he has held senior roles including Head of Solution Design for Asia and Head of Portfolio Research and Engineering. Prior to joining Fidelity, he was Head of UK Investment strategy at MN, a Dutch fiduciary manager with over €92 billion of assets.
Alastair holds a Master of Science in Operations Research and Management Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Edinburgh.
Callum Duffy
Senior Solution Designer, Insight Investment
Rachel Titchen (Chair)
Charities and Investment Director, Broadstone Corporate Benefits
Rachel has 13 years’ experience as an advisor to pensions and charities clients, and her enthusiasm in developing investment strategies has been demonstrated by the feedback from her clients over the years. She is determined to be collaborative in all her work, and to ensure that she creates solutions for her clients that are bespoke to them. This is at the heart of the way she develops solutions with different clients in mind.
Rachel has taken a special interest in the benefits of forward looking risk analysis – and always ensured she focused on the whole journey – not just investment returns when providing advice to client.
Rachel has worked with charity clients for the past 13 years and specialised with them for the last 5. She’s got an unrivalled passion for this sector and is driven to ensure that her clients have a strategy that reflects their specific beliefs.
In 2024, Rachel founded and now Chairs the Charity Investment Consulting Partnership, a group made of 8 independent advisers within the charity sector.
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