Appointments

Barry McKay has joined Barnett Waddingham to build its public sector pensions business after more than 22 years working for Hymans Robertson, PP can reveal.

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has named the 17 members of its inaugural policy board after a competitive application process with 60 candidates.

The Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association (PLSA) has announced it will shrink its board by more than one-third as part of a governance overhaul to make it "agile and more appropriate".

The Royal Mail Pension Plan (RMPP), which manages £10bn of assets on behalf of more than 120,000 members across the UK, has appointed Richard Law-Deeks as chief executive.

Travers Smith has appointed Sebastian Reger from Sackers to join its pensions sector group from 1 October.

Lawrence Churchill has been appointed as the first chairman of defined benefit (DB) consolidator Clara's corporate board.

NEST has appointed its chief financial officer (CFO) Richard Lockwood as a member of its reshaped trustee board which unites executives and non-executives.

Aon has appointed Damon Hopkins as a principal consultant and Adam Fisher as an associate investment consultant for its defined contribution (DC) team.

Andrew Warwick-Thompson is to step down from his role as chief executive of LGPS Central next spring, the £45bn pool has announced.

Defined benefit (DB) consolidator Clara has named Alan Pickering as the inaugural chairman of its trustee board as it prepares for its first transaction.