Towers Watson
Biographical Sketch: Robin joined Towers Watson in 2004. He writes papers on investment subjects that interest the global client base. Many of these papers appear elsewhere, be that in print or at conferences. Subjects covered include: the risk of equities; frontier markets; new methods of performance evaluation; low volatility products; manager research ratings and concentrated investment strategies. Current research interests include the best mandates for excess return and network effects in asset management.
Robin also chairs the Research Prioritisation Group within the Investment business and is Deputy Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Society of Pensions Consultants.
Towers Watson has hundreds of investment consultants worldwide, who are often asked similar questions by their clients. It therefore aims to ensure that each consultant knows the best practices being developed by their colleagues on any particular subject. Robin has a global role to make this happen.
Before joining Towers Watson, Robin worked as a consultant at Russell Investments, both in the US and the UK. Joining as a client consultant, he switched roles and began to write papers on interesting investment subjects. Topics included the performance of risk models, investor expectations about future performance and collateralised commodity futures. He also spoke at, and helped to organise, Russell's global consulting conferences.
Robin graduated from the University of Warwick in 1993, with a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics, Operational Research, Statistics and Economics. He is an Associate of the CFA Society of the UK and tends to waste his spare time by rooting for sports teams that rarely win.