Judging panel 2026
Chair of the judges: Adam Cadle, Editor, Corporate Finance News, Insurance Asset Management and MoneyAge
Adam Cadle is a business and finance journalist with over 15 years’ experience, and is currently the editor of Insurance Asset Management, MoneyAge and Corporate Finance News. He previously worked as deputy editor on Pensions Age and European Pensions. Adam has chaired a number of award judging panels and conferences over the years both in the personal finance and insurance asset management spaces. He is a graduate from Sussex University with a BA honours in French and History and is NCTJ qualified.
Corrado Pistarino, Chief Investment Officer, Foresters Friendly Society
Corrado has over 25 years’ experience in investment banking, asset management and insurance. He is CIO and chair of the Climate Risk Forum at Foresters Friendly Society. Corrado holds a degree in Physics from Turin University and a Masters in Finance from London Business School.
David Devlin, Strategic Partnerships for Asset Management, Life & Pensions, Standard Life
David is a director in the strategic partnerships team at Standard Life as has been a qualified actuary since 2010. He joined then Phoenix, now Standard Life, from Scottish Widows where he was head of shareholder assets. His role at Scottish Widows was focused on annuity fund investment strategy in a Solvency 2/UK Matching Adjustment context. This included portfolio optimisation, portfolio trades, ALM, bulk annuity pricing/proposition and new asset/instrument implementation. David was also responsible for asset manager and investment bank relationships, including manager selection. David’s existing role focuses on asset manager performance, commercials and operating models, as well as significant SME input on M&A. David has also worked as a consultant in EY’s insurance investment team – this was a wide-ranging role which covered multiple aspects of insurance investment – M&A, ALM, Solvency 2 implementation and authored and co-authored multiple papers on private asset investment. David holds an MA in economics, an MSc in actuarial science and is a fellow of the Institute of Actuaries.
Sumit Mehta, Head of Strategy, L&G
Sumit heads Investment Solutions in Legal & General’s Retirement division (AUM: ~£70bn), where he leads portfolio construction, strategic asset allocation and implementation for new tranches of AUM acquired via its market-leading Pension Risk Transfer (buyout) business. Sumit has led investment strategy on some of the UK’s biggest buyout transactions, such as the Aegon back book acquisition and derisking deals with BA, ICI PF and the Vickers scheme. Sumit also leads the Quantitative Analytics group, currently focusing on building LGR’s quantitative infrastructure for the long term. Prior to L&G, Sumit worked for 8 years at Royal Bank of Scotland in its fixed income division, where he held responsibility for inflation structuring. In 2016 he was nominated by the Trade Magazine as one of the "Forty under Forty" Rising stars in the finance industry. Sumit holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.
Deepak Seeburrun, Head of Global Insurance & Key Partnerships, HSBC Asset Management
Deepak Seeburrun is the head of global insurance & key partnerships at HSBC Asset Management and has been working in the insurance industry since 1998. Prior to joining HSBC in 2015, Deepak worked as executive director, insurance solutions at Natixis Investment Bank and formerly in the same capacity at Lloyds Banking markets division. Prior to banking, Deepak held a number of actuarial roles on the buyside performing ALM work including derivatives trading at AIG and Legal and General. He holds an Msc in mathematical finance from the University of Oxford and is a fellow and Chartered Mathematician.
