FBC Chairs/CEO Council Meeting: 14 Nov 2023
Camille Blackburn, the FCA’s head of asset management supervision and policy joined our annual Chairs/CEO Council meeting on Tuesday, 14th Nov and delivered a keynote address.
Agenda:
2:30 PM
Registration & Refreshments
2:50 PM
Welcome by Shiv Taneja, FBC CEO
Opening remarks by Rhodri Mason, Chief of Staff, Legal & General Investment Management and SMF1
3:00 PM – Session 1
Fireside chat with Camille Blackburn, FCA Director Wholesale Buy-side, and Philip Warland, Chair of FBC’s Advisory Council. This session will also have time for Q&A.
4:00 PM – Session 2
Panel discussion: FBC senior advisers, Brandon Horwitz and Simon Hynes, will host the discussion with:
- Rhodri Mason, Chief of Staff, Legal & General Investment Management
- Hamish Forsyth, President of Europe & Asia and board Chair at Capital Group
- Jane Leach, Chair at J O Hambro Funds.
4:45 PM
Closing remarks by Catherine Battershill, FBC Managing Director
THEREAFTER
Informal drinks
Contributors
Jane is Board Chair, NED and Senior Advisor with over 30 years’ experience in the financial Services Industry.
She began her career at KPMG, and after becoming partner she ran KPMG’s Financial Services Risk Practice for several years, working with clients across the financial services industry. Her Executive career also includes HSBC where she was Group Capital Controller, managing capital across HSBCs global businesses.
Current appointments
Jane is Chair of JO Hambro Capital Management Funds (UK), and is a NED and Chair of Risk Committee at JO Hambro Capital Management Ltd. She is a Senior Advisor at the Bank of England where she advises on matters involving the financial services industry including firm supervision, and policy development. She is a member of the Board of the national child protection charity Lucy Faithfull Foundation, and will chair the charity from January.
Camille joined the FCA as Director of Wholesale Buy-Side in October 2022. Most recently she worked at Legal & General Investment Management where she was Chief Compliance Officer and was responsible for the company’s global compliance framework and team. Before that she was Chief Compliance Officer at Aviva Investors and was Chair of the Investment Association’s Brexit Committee. She has held international chief compliance officer roles in investment banking and money services businesses.
Camille has held senior policy roles at the Central Bank of Ireland and for the Australian Government. She was a Principal Advisor to the Australian Treasury on the 2014 Australian Financial System Inquiry and the 2016 Capability Review of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. During the financial crisis she was the Head of Investment Banking at the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.
Hamish Forsyth is President of Europe and Asia at the Capital Group. He has 31 years of investment industry experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career, Hamish was part of the team that launched Capital’s mutual fund distribution activities outside the U.S. and he is currently chair of Capital Group’s Luxembourg and UK management companies. He holds a master’s degree with first-class honours in philosophy, politics and economics from Trinity College, University of Oxford. Hamish is based in London.
As Chief of Staff, Rhodri is responsible for LGIM’s global Strategy, Product and Marketing teams. Rhodri is the Chief Executive Officer of Legal & General (Unit Trust Managers) Limited as well as being the lead executive responsible for LGIM’s relationship with key client Legal & General Retirement. Rhodri joined LGIM in March 2016 following a series of senior Product Strategy and Development roles at leading asset managers including M&G, BlackRock and Federated Hermes. Rhodri graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Social & Political Sciences. Rhodri is Chair of the Board of Trustees at RedSTART, a charity committed to educating young people in personal finance.
Philip Warland spent the first part of his career in the Bank of England. He was the Governor’s Private Secretary, Adviser on Oil and Energy and Chief Press Officer amongst other roles. After a brief time with Standard Chartered the rest of his career has been in asset management. First as head of the trade association, now the IA. Then with PWC, and a head-hunter Halsey, and finally with Fidelity where he was Head of Public Policy.
Currently he is a part time adviser to a Brussels based policy consultant, Kreab. He also was the founding chairman of the Oasis Trust which, amongst other things manages fifty two City Academies and works in eleven countries worldwide.
Shiv Taneja is the CEO of Fund Boards Council. He has over 30 years’ research and consulting experience in and around the global asset management industry. This is combined with a deep professional interest in corporate and investment fund board governance developed over the past decade. Shiv leads FBC in its overall services, including membership, consultancy and training.
Shiv has degrees in accounting and finance, and is a professional non-executive director, having qualified with the FT-NED, Level 7 Advanced Professional Diploma in 2013.
In addition to his work around investment fund board governance, Shiv is a recognised industry authority, media commentator and regular conference speaker on trends in the global asset management industry, having led and completed numerous large industry-wide studies in the area of market sizing, product development and distribution trends in both the retail and institutional segments of the industry.
Catherine Battershill has over 15 years of experience in asset management in Europe and Asia. Prior to the founding of Fund Boards Council (FBC), Catherine led major marketing and communications initiatives across major institutional and wholesale retail markets. She spearheaded a myriad of campaigns, including the development of an international thought-leadership programme for a leading multi-national asset manager.
Catherine has held voluntary board roles in education and a children’s charity, through which she has developed a strong interest in governance topics. This, combined with her asset management background, led her to join Shiv in setting up FBC.
Brandon is a Senior Adviser and non-executive director at FBC and is involved with FBC’s consultancy and thought-leadership work, with a focus on product governance, assessment of value and investment governance, including oversight of sustainable investments.
He is also a qualified actuary and Principal Consultant at NomBon Consulting, a boutique management consultancy focused on helping firms to design, manage and distribute regulated products and advice services which deliver good outcomes for retail customers.
Brandon also chairs the Appointments Committee of the Financial Reporting Council’s Tribunal Panel and has experience as a Non-Executive Director of organisations regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), The Pension Regulator (TPR) and the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission (GFSC).
Simon joined the Fund Boards Council as a Senior Adviser in January 2022 to work on the Distributor oversight and Product governance initiatives. He has extensive UK & European Investment Management distribution experience with leadership and board roles at Jupiter and Legal & General Investment Management.
His UK AFM board experience saw detailed involvement in Assessment of Value, PROD and other regulatory initiatives. He also built LGIM’s Retail sales presence in Europe and was integral to the development of its ETF business. This gave a fascinating insight into the work of European fund regulators and increased his latent enthusiasm for sharing best practice in fund governance.
Since 2020 Simon has also served as a non executive director for NedGroup Investments.