Speaker Profile: David Devlin

David is a Director in the Strategic Partnerships team as has been a qualified actuary since 2010. He joined Phoenix 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 optimization, 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 model, 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.