Legal & General Investment Management

Background

LGIM is the investment management arm of Legal & General Group, a FTSE 100 company with a heritage dating back to 1836. The Investment Management business is one of Europe’s largest asset managers, offering investment solutions to a broad range of clients globally.

psd’s specialist investment management recruitment team, lead by Geoff Eaton, began working with LGIM in 2015. Over the past 5 years the organisation has invested significantly in technology and business change projects to underpin their development and growth whilst having to react to an ever-changing regulatory environment. We have been instrumental in staffing many of these projects and have worked closely with LGIM’s technology, data and business change teams to build an unrivalled understanding of their requirements.

During this time psd has placed over 30 people with the organisation, providing skills in Programme/Project Management, Business / Data Analysis, Architecture, Testing and Application Development. These individuals have combined both subject matter expertise across a range of specific domains in the Investment Management business together with knowledge of a number of vendor technologies.

The Results

Programmes / Projects Staffed

  • MiFID II – Trade / Transaction Reporting and Best Execution
  • Enterprise Trade Compliance – Implementation of a CRD Compliance (SaaS)
  • Counterparty onboarding and risk management – selection of a solution to support an improved target operating model
  • Implementation of a Risk Analytics solution, Axioma
  • Delivery of a platform to process cash flow and pooled fund orders received from clients.
  • Implementation of a strategic portfolio management system (CRD) and trading tools for the Front Office
  • Implementation of a new Private Credit system (Black Mountain)
  • Transformation programme for the development and implementation of a target operating model for the Real Assets business incorporating the implementation of a new technology platform (including a hosted property investment modelling tool – MRI IM – SaaS)
  • Instrument and Party reference data project
  • Client portfolio reference and valuation data project

Feedback from the Client

“psd helped us to recruit a Programme Manager into a key role in our team. They understood
the brief at first explanation and quickly identified strong candidates with relevant skills and
experience. Their duty of care extended beyond the appointment of the successful candidate,
following up post appointment to ensure both parties were happy with how the appointee had
settled in.”

Portfolio Manager