Capital Cranfield has announced the appointment of Nicky Hardcastle and Bobby Riddaway as professional trustees.

Hardcastle was previously Nobia head of corporate compliance, and brings more than a decade of experience chairing both defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes. Riddaway, who specialises in investment consulting, joins from Capita, having previously held roles at Buck, Aon and HSBC. He has also served on and chaired a number of professional committees, including the Association of Consulting Actuaries Investment Committee and the Actuarial Professions Finance Board.

Cartwright has named Steve Robinson as head of investment implementation.

Robinson joins from Mobious Life, where he spent four years as head of asset transfers and latterly two years as implementation director. Prior to this, he was BlackRock vice president responsible for designing, implementing and managing asset transitions for BlackRock’s platform clients, and at Mercer Investment Consulting, where he managed the asset transition function.

Legal & General has appointed Heather Lauder and Helen Carey to its Independent Governance Committee (IGC).

Lauder holds over 30 years’ experience in retail and business banking, having previously held large-scale customer strategy, customer operations, digital and transformational executive roles at NatWest, RBS, Tesco, VirginMoney and Co-Op Bank. Carey, meanwhile, is AV Trinity compliance & operations director, and has 25 years of experience working in financial services. She is also an independent member on the Hargreaves Lansdown IGC and an examiner for the Chartered Insurance Institute.

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