Royal London has announced the appointment of Vidur Bahree as group investment director.
Reporting to Daniel Cazeaux, group chief financial officer, Bahree will lead on delivering investment strategy for Royal London’s insurance businesses.
He has over 20 years’ experience across insurance and reinsurance M&A, liability-aware investment management and capital management. He was also a member of the Phoenix Group management team that led the consolidation of the UK closed life funds sector from 2005. While there, Bahree established and led the Financial Management Group, developing and implementing investment and asset-liability management strategy.
After his time at Phoenix, he was group investment director at Aviva and brought together the group’s insurance investment management leadership worldwide. More recently, he has served as a senior adviser to global strategy consultants Boston Consulting Group and consultant to UK retirement insurer Just Group.