Lifestyle Article - Nigel Aston joins UK DC Solutions team at Aon

 Nigel Aston brings over 20 years of experience in driving DC investment strategies within the UK market and abroad. Prior to joining Aon, he was a senior managing director at State Street Global Advisors, where he was responsible for global workplace strategy and ESG. He also previously held roles at Standard Life, AXA, SEI and technology start-up DCisions, spanning areas including investment design, sales, and marketing and communication.

 In his new role Nigel Aston will be focused on working with clients and market evaluators to ensure client needs are well understood and addressed.

 Tony Britton, head of UK DC Solutions at Aon, said: “We continue to grow our DC Solutions team and Nigel Aston’s considerable expertise will further support our rapid expansion in the UK market. As we continue to invest in our offering to clients, Nigel’s experience across distribution, strategy and investment will be invaluable.”

 Nigel Aston, associate partner and market development lead UK DC Solutions at Aon, said: “The UK pension industry is currently in a state of transition. There is a wholesale shift to master trust, which is unfortunately accompanied by a somewhat limited choice of quality providers with sufficient bandwidth to serve the needs of the market. This means that scheme sponsors, as well as the professional service providers that serve them, are suffering a capacity crunch.

 “With The Aon MasterTrust, we are ideally placed to help expand effective DC coverage. I am very excited to be part of a great team within a global business that really wants to make a difference.”