Northern Trust

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Northern Trust is a leading provider of asset servicing solutions for European pension schemes. Pensions are central to our business, with solutions for DC schemes ranging from asset administration to global custody and specialist investment accounting. As their DC plans evolve and grow, clients also draw on our knowledge of open-architecture infrastructure to support their requirements for greater investment capability and sophistication.

In addition, our investment business, Northern Trust Asset Management, is a leading global asset manager, with capabilities spanning all markets and asset classes. These include customised index, factor-based and ESG strategies, delivered in tax-effective vehicles.

Mark Austin

Mark is the current Chair of DCIF (2025). Mark is the head of the UK in the institutional investor business looking after principally pensions and insurance clients.

Marks background is based in the servicing, management and stewardship of retirement assets having worked at an asset manager with a significant pension market share and two asset servicing institutions predominately servicing the UK and European defined benefit and defined contribution markets.

Mark is also the executive sponsor l on new sales to major or strategically important asset owners and managers in both the pension sector, and the insurance market as well. Mark has been with Northern Trust for 12 years.

In these roles Mark spends a significant amount of time working with clients and consultants helping support the more complex aspects of pensions including the movement of asset management in house and de-risking and other deficit reduction structures as well as implementing the various pension pooling structures available.

Prior to Northern Trust mark was at JP Morgan covering the pension client base as well as the offshore manager constituency in various capacities from strategy to sales and relationship management.

Mark Joined JP Morgan from Henderson Investors where he held various positions.

Mark is a director of Northern Trusts Luxembourg Management Company, Northern Trusts Irish Management Company and is Chair of the Northern Trust UK Pension Plan covering both the DC and DB section.

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Jacquelynne Anderson

Jacquelynne is responsible for leading the UK Relationship Management team in Northern Trust with responsibility for the Asset Owner segment covering Defined Contribution, Corporate Defined Benefit, Consolidators and LGPS Pension and Partner/Investor Schemes.

Jacquelynne brings a wealth of experience from her diverse background which has included a decade in Pensions Administration and Investment Management, including Transition Management. Jacquelynne has most recently spent the last 12+ years with BNY Mellon as their Regional Executive and Country Manager for South Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa, where she was responsible for the organisation’s interests across multiple business lines in the Region and globally. Jacquelynne relocated from Johannesburg to London in 2019, taking responsibility for several of the most highly regarded clients in the EMEA region.
Jacquelynne has 27 years’ experience in Financial Markets and joins us with expertise and knowledge across all client segments and geographies.

The asset managers that make up the DCIF are committed to promoting investment best practice within DC pension schemes.