LGPS Central, the pension pool for eight local government pension schemes (LGPS) in the Midlands, has appointed Louis-Paul Hill to the newly created role of investment fund oversight and strategy manager.
Hill, an investment professional with more than 20 years of LGPS experience, joins LGPS Central from a consultancy role at Aon. During his tenure, he served as the FCA-regulated lead adviser to numerous local government funds.
His clients included The Northern Ireland Local Government Officers’ Superannuation Committee, North Yorkshire and Shropshire.
Hill also led investment projects for multiple funds, including West Sussex, West Yorkshire, Rhondda and Teesside. He was also the lead adviser to Merseyside for a decade. Most recently, he provided investment advice to Cumbria Pension Fund.
His skill set includes setting investment strategy, conducting risk modelling, tactical asset allocation, portfolio construction, manager selection and ongoing monitoring.
Richard Law Deeks, LGPS Central’s chief executive, said Hill’s “extensive experience delivering advice to LGPS clients over many years will be an invaluable addition to the internal talent we already have”.
And he added: “Louis-Paul’s new role ensures we continue to deliver a first-class service to our partner funds as we transition assets in line with the government’s vision for pooling.”
There have been a number of key recent additions to the LGPS Central team, notably the newly bolstered fixed income team welcoming Roger Webb, formerly of Aviva and Aberdeen Asset Management, and Simon Hancock, who was a portfolio manager at Tesco Pension Investment.
They will be joined by Carl Shepherd, formerly of Newton Asset Management, later in January, who will also look after the £4.8bn in fixed-income assets.
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