Pete is the Pensions Manager at Schroders and has over 20 years of experience in the pensions industry. He began his career with Mercer before moving to a pension manager role at Liverpool Victoria and then to Schroders. At Schroders, Pete has a dual role. He supports the Trustee of the Schroders Retirement Benefits Scheme, which is our hybrid UK pension scheme, helping them fulfil their responsibilities. He also acts as the corporate representative to the Trustee and in house expert, helping guide Schroders as it navigates the ever-changing landscape of its UK pension offerings. Pete also lends his expertise to the various pension scheme offered by Schroders in different regions around the world.

Lawrence is Head of Endgame Solutions within our Client Solutions team.
He started his career as an actuarial consultant and now specialises in advising on and implementing investment solutions for UK DB pension schemes, with a focus on ‘endgame’ objectives.
Lawrence leads the development of Schroders’ endgame proposition, whether that’s to design investment strategy to ensure safe transfer to an insurance company (buy-out), or to continue to run a pension scheme on, either in a ‘Low Dependency’ manner or to explicitly generate and distribute surplus.
Lawrence has over 18 years of experience in the pensions industry, covering traditional actuarial consulting, investment analytics and investment advisory services including Fiduciary Management.
He is a part qualified actuary and holds a BSc in Neuroscience and Physiology from the University of Bristol.

Ajeet is the Global Co-Head of Client Solutions at Schroders. He focusses on working with institutional clients to understand their specific investment and governance needs in order to design innovative solutions to achieve their investment objectives. As a qualified actuary with extensive experience in both investment consulting and asset management, Ajeet is part of the senior management team with responsibility for the quality and evolution of our client-driven services. Ajeet has also worked in Deutsche Bank’s asset management businesses. Prior to that, he was a lead investment consultant advising several of our largest defined benefit and defined contribution clients

Ryan has worked in the DC Pension marketplace for over 30 years and has gained experience in all aspects of the industry.
He joined Schroders in 2015 as a UK Institutional Client Director and is focused on building and developing relationships with Trustees and Pension Managers of DC and DB pension schemes. This involves understanding each client’s requirements and offering a service designed to anticipate and meet these needs through the delivery of Schroders’ investment capabilities.

He previously spent time as an Investment Consultant, which included managing the DC Investment Team at Aon Employee Benefits. His main responsibilities included the development and delivery of all investment-based services to UK DC clients, including: thought leadership and developing the DC Investment Centre of Excellence.

Prior to this Ryan worked for a number of pension providers where his roles included Investment Proposition Manager and was part of the Fund Strategy and Selection Group at Friends Provident, where he was responsible for the positioning of the investment proposition both externally and internally, whilst supporting the development of investment knowledge for all external facing employees. He also worked at Aviva (8 years) where he held a number of roles including Senior Sales Consultant and Pensions Development Manager.

Ryan obtained a BEng (Hons) and MSc (Eng) from Leeds University and has also passed the IMC.

Vikram Bhandari is Head and Chief Investment Officer of Schroders Capital Solutions (“SCS”) and Chair of the SCS Investment Committee. He leads the design, implementation, and management of multi-private asset investment solutions that integrate in-house, direct/indirect investing expertise with external manager capabilities. SCS delivers outcome-oriented portfolios across the full spectrum of private market strategies, including private equity, infrastructure, private debt and credit alternatives, real estate, and opportunistic diversifiers. Prior to joining Schroders Capital, Vikram was the most senior Portfolio Manager for BlackRock EMEA Alternative Portfolio Solutions, where he led the development and oversight of multi-alternative private markets portfolios tailored to income, growth, and thematic outcomes for DB, DC, insurance, and OCIO clients. Earlier in his career, Vikram was a direct investor across multiple asset classes, including public and private markets, beginning as a credit specialist at Bain Capital Credit. He graduated summa cum laude with dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics from the Wharton School and in Civil Engineering and Systems Science from the University of Pennsylvania.