he spent two years as retirement and savings director<\/a> \u2013 and will take up his new role in September.<\/p>\nAt Standard Life he was responsible for producing thought leadership on current and future savings and pensions issues for consumers and the pensions industry.<\/p>\n
Before that, he spent 17 years at Hymans Robertson as a partner, leading firm-wide propositions and overseeing DC Master Trust consolidation for several high-profile corporate clients.<\/p>\n
He also advised on M&A and helped create one of the UK\u2019s leading independent benchmarking tools for the provider market.<\/p>\n
In his new role, he will be tasked with working alongside colleagues and industry and government bodies to help shape and implement wealth policy.<\/p>\n
He replaces Emma Douglas, who held the role for two years before recently becoming chair of The Pensions Regulator (TPR).<\/p>\n
Ambery said: \u201cI\u2019m thrilled to be joining Aviva and working closely with the leadership team within its wealth business.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith major regulatory change and savers\u2019 needs evolving quickly, this is an important time for pensions.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to helping Aviva build on its success while keeping customers firmly at the centre.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ambery will report to Michele Golunska, Aviva\u2019s managing director of wealth, which is part of the firm\u2019s wider insurance, wealth and retirement (IWR) business.<\/p>\n
Golunska said: \u201cMike joins us at a pivotal time for our industry, following the recent introduction of the Pension Schemes Act and ahead of the forthcoming Pensions Commission recommendations.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re delighted to welcome him to the team. He brings huge experience and a genuine passion for policy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aviva has appointed Mike Ambery as director of policy within its UK wealth business. Ambery joins from Standard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[72,176,61,60,174,175],"class_list":["post-573363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-business","tag-finance","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}