I am a partner at LCP and advise clients (primarily UK pension schemes and their sponsors) on a range of issues concerning investment strategy. One of my areas of expertise is developing investment strategies to manage pension scheme risk. I am a senior member of LCP's Liability–driven Investment (LDI) research team and regularly meet with fund managers and investment banks to discuss strategies to manage inflation and interest rate risk inherent in a scheme’s liabilities. Further, I am also a senior member of LCP’s specialist De-Risking team, and have worked on the investment aspects of a number of large pensioner buy-in transactions for funds such as ICI and Total, ranging in size from