Appointments

RPMI has appointed former Towers Watson managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Babloo Ramamurthy as a non-executive director to its board.

Legal & General (L&G) pensions strategy director Adrian Boulding has succeeded Railways Pension Trustee Company chief executive Chris Hitchen as chairman of the Pension Quality Mark (PQM).

LCP has named former Rothesay Life co-head of business development Myles Pink as a principal in its pension buyout practice.

The Pensions Trust chief executive Stephen Nichols has resigned and left last week after more than a decade with the organisation.

The Pensions Regulator's (TPR) search for a new chief executive to take up the role vacated by Bill Galvin last June continues, a spokeswoman has confirmed.

The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has appointed Mark Boyle as chairman from 1 April for a four-year term, replacing Michael O'Higgins, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed.

The Bank of England (BOE) has announced the appointment of Ben Broadbent as deputy governor for monetary policy, responsible for chairing meetings of the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) in the governor's absence.

Towers Watson has appointed Jo Kite to the newly-created role of head of pensions and benefits in its Scottish division.

Mercer has appointed partner Alan Baker as UK head of defined benefit (DB) risk, replacing Ali Tayyebi who will concentrate on client work.

Blackrock has named Simon Pardoe as head of proposition to its defined contribution (DC) team in a bid to develop bundled and investment-only workplace services.