Appointments

Stephen Crosbie has been promoted to protection director at Aegon UK.

Jayne Nickalls has been appointed a non-executive director by the Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

Tomas Carruthers and Ron Jarman have been appointed as trustees to the National Employment Savings Trust (NEST) by the pensions minister.

Debbie Abrahams has been promoted to shadow work and pensions secretary following a series of resignations and promotions.

Anna Copestake and Kevin LeGrand have been hired by Arc Pensions Law as the firm reaches its first anniversary.

Schroders has restructured its multi-asset and portfolio solutions teams following the departure of Nico Marais.

Ashu Bhargava has been hired as a director in strategic transactions to work in Legal & General's (L&G) pension risk transfer business.

Carl Short has been appointed director of engagement at Hermes EOS in London and started work in March.

Redington has elevated Dan Mikulskis as head of defined benefit (DB) pensions in a newly created role.

Ali Toutounchi has been appointed a trustee of Legal & General's (L&G) master trust as well as a member of its independent governance committee (IGC).