Key Contacts


 

Fred Jaffe

Fred Jaffe is the co-founder and Executive Director of The European Pension Fund Investment Forum.

Fred is involved in all aspects of running The European Pension Fund Investment Forum but has particular interest in selecting and preparing speakers for presentations and in monitoring current

investment topics. Fred regularly meets with members to ensure close contact with the needs of the pension fund community to enable The European Pension Fund Investment Forum to meet these needs.

Fred's career started with the US Congress as a Senior Legislative Aide and he then continued in Government as a Trial Counsel for the Federal Energy Regulating Commission. After six years in Washington, Fred joined Standard & Poor's as Vice President Corporate Finance (bond analyst) and then moved to Jefferies & Co. (an investment banking firm) as Senior Vice President, International Business Development - working in New York and then in London.

Fred is a qualified lawyer and a member of the Washington DC Bar.

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Trevor Cook

Trevor is Executive Director of The European Pension Fund Investment Forum and is the founder of Specialist Pension Services Ltd and SPS Conferences . He advises Pension Funds and other investment institutions throughout Europe and in the United States.

Trevor's career started at the Legal & General Assurance Society,

and progressed through Swiss Life Insurance & Pension Company to GEC where he became Assistant Pensions Manager in charge of scheme administration. After a brief spell with Lonrho, Trevor joined Maxwell Communication Corporation and subsequently transferred to The Mirror Group as their Pensions Manager.

He left The Mirror in October 1992, a year after the Maxwell debacle, to start Specialist Pensions Services. In his position with EPFIF, Trevor organises seminars and other events in Antwerp, Copenhagen, Helsinki, London, Stockholm and Zeist (Netherlands) for Pension Funds with assets approaching €1,000 billion. Pension Fund members of the Forum are based throughout Europe.

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R Nevill F Brooke

Nevill is the Senior Executive Officer for The European Pension Fund Investment Forum.

Nevill started his working career in 1962 as a management trainee in Barclays Bank Plc based in their Birmingham Local Head Office.

He then joined the Finance division of IBM UK Limited where he worked for 29 years. During this time he had management secondments to

New York, Paris and Dublin. He was Pension Investment manager for IBM UK Pensions Trust Ltd for 5 years in the mid 1980's and in his last role with the company he headed up the pension operation for IBM Europe. In this capacity he established a central pension consulting unit responsible for pension investment, accounting and control matters in the various subsidiaries of IBM Europe.

Nevill then moved to Sedgwick Noble Lowndes (SNL) in April 1998 as European Research director responsible for both institutional and retail operations. Following the merger shortly thereafter between SNL and William M. Mercer, Nevill assumed the role within Mercer Investment Consulting as European Principal and Senior Investment Consultant responsible for clients largely based in the South West and Wales. As part of this responsibility he was the lead researcher for a number of UK based fund managers and he also headed up the Private Equity research team.

Nevill joined The European Pension Fund Investment Forum in March 2001 as the Senior Executive Officer.

He was educated in South Africa and is an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (England and Wales). He is married with 2 grown up sons.

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