Barclays has appointed Lydia Fearn and Jesal Mistry with the aim of strengthening its Investment consultant capabilities.
Fearn and Mistry have been hired to Barclays’ corporate and employer solutions (C&ES) business.
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Fearn joins Barclays C&ES from Lane Clark & Peacock where she has been advising clients on their investment strategy for both defined benefit and defined contribution plans for the past six years, having previously spent five years as an investment consultant at Hewitt.
Mistry joins from Aon Consulting where he has been working since 2005 across a number of practices before specialising in investment consulting for the past four years.
As investment consultants, Fearn and Mistry will focus on advising corporate clients (both employers and trustees) on the investment strategy for their workplace pension schemes in order to meet their specific scheme objectives.
Fearn and Mistry will be based in London and will report to Paul Wilson, head of Employee Benefit Consulting at Barclays Corporate & Employer Solutions.
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By GlobalDataWilson said: "We are excited to welcome Lydia and Jesal to our growing team. Their appointments are further evidence of our unrelenting focus on bringing the very best consultants in the market into the Employee Benefits Consulting team and are a reflection of our ambitions and commitment to this space.
"Barclays is the UK’s largest wealth manager and we have an enormous depth of resource and expertise in investment fund research, analysis and in behavioural science. As a wealth manager we understand both the investment and decision making challenges individuals have in accruing wealth – and this means that we are far more attuned to the DC market than those that approach the challenge from an institutional perspective. With a focus on service and superior client relations, Lydia and Jesal will combine their significant experience with the strength and investment expertise of Barclays for the benefit of our corporate clients, their pension schemes and plan participants."
