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Simon Partridge

Head of EMEA OCIO

Simon is Head of EMEA OCIO and leads the evolution and growth of the firm’s fiduciary management offering for UK pension schemes. Based in London, he works with prospective clients to develop custom solutions to meet their needs, bringing together our fiduciary strategy, investment and client teams.

Simon is a qualified actuary and has over 20 years’ experience helping UK defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes achieve their objectives.

He joined Russell Investments in 2021 from BlackRock where he worked in a variety of client-facing roles for 11 years. There, he co-founded the fiduciary client team and was responsible for business development and relationship management on key accounts.

Before that, Simon was an Investment Consultant at Mercer where he advised UK pension schemes on setting objectives, strategy design and manager selection. He started his career as a Pensions Consultant at Watson Wyatt (now WTW).

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