Speaker Profile: Sumit Mehta

Sumit is head of strategy in Legal & General’s retirement division (AUM: ~£70bn), where he leads corporate strategy across LGR’s businesses globally. Previously, he led the investment solutions division during which he led investment strategy and asset execution on some of the UK’s biggest buyout transactions, such as the Aegon back book acquisition and de-risking deals with BA, ICI PF and the Vickers scheme. Prior to L&G, Sumit worked for eight years at Royal Bank of Scotland in its fixed income division, in trading and structuring roles, holding 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, and co-edited the book “Derivative Markets: The New Regulatory Paradigm”. Sumit holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.