LGPS appoints Ross as CIO

Based in Wolverhampton, Ross joined the company as an investment director for fixed income in February 2018 and became deputy CIO in March 2019. He will start in his new role as permanent CIO on 1 July 2020.  

Ross has more than 39 years' experience in financial markets and has a background in trading, portfolio management, building fixed income businesses, and managing active portfolios in global fixed income sectors.  

Prior to joining LGPS Central, Ross spent a brief period at the Financial Conduct Authority as a technical sector specialist following his role with Fidelity Management and Research as a product specialist. 

Before that, he was a head of global fixed income at Deutsche Bank, Invesco, HSBC and JP Morgan Chase over a period of more than 18 years.  

Ross started his career at Morgan Grenfell as a fixed income portfolio manager, where he spent four years as a proprietary trader specialising in derivatives. He later spent four years at Lombard Odier as an institutional investment manager.

LGPS Central manages the pooled investment assets of Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Worcestershire, West Midlands, and West Midlands Integrated Transport Authority (ITA). It is one of the eight partnerships between 89 local government pension schemes in England and Wales.

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