Andrew Connell, Head of LDI at Schroders, has announced two hires to the team:

Abhishek joins Schroders as a Fund Manager responsible for the day to day management of Schroders Matching Plus pooled fund and segregated mandates. Prior to joining Schroders Abhishek worked at MetLife where he was a Portfolio Manager, working on LDI and ALM hedging strategies. At MetLife he was responsible for designing the interest–rate and inflation immunization strategies in the portfolio and was also supporting the credit portfolio construction process.

Michael Bach Nielsen has joined the Structured Solutions team, where he will be responsible for the execution of LDI related derivative positions, on behalf of both pool and segregated LDI clients. Prior to joining Schroders Michael worked for AEGON Asset Management where he managed a number of derivative overlays and was responsible for modelling LDI solutions for clients as well as trading OTC derivatives on fixed income and currency products. Previous to AEGON Michael worked in fixed income research at Danske Bank.