TISA boosts policy and retirement teams
TISA, the investments and savings membership organisation, has announced the appointment of Stephen Gay to the new position of Policy Team Manager and Renny Biggins as Pensions Technical Officer.
Both have extensive industry experience. Stephen Gay began his financial services career 35 years ago; he is a former Director of distribution development at Aviva, Director General of AIFA and Director of life and pensions at the ABI. Renny Biggins has more than 25 years’ experience including roles at Royal London, an IFA and a variety of management and senior management positions at Suffolk Life and most recently IFDS.
David Dalton-Brown, TISA Director General said:
“I am delighted that we have been able to add the considerable talents of Stephen and Renny to the TISA team. Stephen’s expertise in policy development and presentation will be an invaluable resource for us to draw on. In particular, he will help to shape our policy work in distribution and in wrap & platforms to make it more consumer focused, including our ongoing work on FAMR and the development of our proposals to enable a guidance service to be made widely available.
“Retirement saving is another key TISA theme in 2017 as we build on the work in our acclaimed response to the HMT pension tax relief consultation, prepare our input into the review of auto-enrolment and continue to tackle the pressing need for the self-employed to be brought into the pensions regime. Renny has a wealth of experience to support this work and will also help us to add value to the technical pensions service we provide to our members.”
The appointments form part of TISA’s development plan to extend its strategic policy thought leadership and to re-focus the work of its policy councils. TISA recently announced Robert Gardner as the new Chair of its Children’s Savings Policy Council.
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Notes for Editors
TISA is a not-for-profit membership association operating within the financial services industry. The focus of our recommendations and actions is improved outcomes for consumers and UK plc with this approach leading to a stronger UK financial services industry.
TISA’s growing membership comprises over 150 firms involved in the supply and distribution of savings and investment products and services. These members represent many different sectors of the financial services industry, including asset managers, insurance companies, fund managers, distributors, building societies, investment managers, third party administrators, consultants and advisers, software providers, financial advisers, pension providers, banks and stockbrokers.
TISA has a successful track record in working cooperatively with government, regulators, HMT, DWP and HMRC to improve the performance of the industry and the outcomes for the public. Effective policy and regulation and the creation of efficient industry infrastructure continues to be the major focus for our members. TISA is unique in that it represents the entire financial services industry, incorporating cross-sector policy, industry and technical expertise. Whilst we maintain a solid partnership with government, the regulators and wider industry, we remain independent and develop neutral views and opinions. This impartiality is reflected in our ability to drive development projects which improve industry performance and consumer outcomes, putting us in the unique position of being able to constantly challenge the status quo to bring about material improvement.
Website: www.tisa.uk.com