
Irish Life
Irish Life the largest life and pensions group and fund manager in Ireland, employing 2,000 people and servicing one million customers.
Irish Life Health
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Irish Life Corporate Business
The largest provider of company pensions, life insurance and income protection for companies and affinity groups across Ireland.
Recognising the varying investment needs and risk tolerances of our investors, we offer a bespoke portfolio modelling service to help you create solutions that are truly aligned to your requirements.
Robust and repeatable, our approach has delivered results for our customers, which in turn is reflected in the large defined benefit, defined contribution, corporate and sovereign wealth customers who utilise this service.
The first step is understanding our client requirements. We focus on your required outcomes, considering factors like liquidity requirements, time horizons and tolerance for risk. Our highly experienced team then considers global sources of returns, covering a full range asset classes, risk exposures and investment styles to deliver a tailored solution that expressly targets your desired outcomes.
This rigorous analysis is driven by our own proprietary models. A differentiating aspect of our approach is that it is completely bespoke, and designed to meet our clients’ own specifications.
Our portfolio modelling framework incorporates four key elements that assist in the design of appropriate portfolio solutions for clients. These are underpinned by our proprietary multi-asset stochastic modelling engine.
Our Portfolio Solutions team provides in-depth analysis to identify the risk factors that drive portfolio performance and portfolio risks. We discuss potential alternative portfolios on client request, before deciding on a final version that is appropriate.
We can also analyse the aggregate impact on a portfolio of incorporating non-standard investment solutions. Such solutions include (but are not limited to) overlay strategies, active strategies, dynamic asset allocation strategies and life-styling strategies. Some of the services we provide are:
When designing our portfolio solutions framework, we sought to address a number of key aspects that we felt significantly impacted performance. These include modelling for extreme events, allowing for the changing volatilities and correlations of asset classes through different economic periods, and allowing for tactical positioning as per client demand.
Key Contact
Darragh is Head of ILIM’s Portfolio Solutions team. He is responsible for the overall design and management of Irish Life’s MAPS, Ireland’s fastest growing retail multi-asset solution. Darragh and his team are also responsible for helping our clients, across all distribution platforms, design portfolios congruent with their specific objectives and constraints.
Darragh joined ILIM in 2007 as a Quantitative Analyst within the Quantitative Strategies Group. Prior to joining ILIM, Darragh worked as a research assistant within the College of Business at UCD and taught various courses undergraduate and postgraduate courses. While at ILIM, Darragh has also lectured on a part-time basis at the UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School to MSc Finance, MSc Quantitative Finance and MSc in Aviation Finance students.
Darragh earned a Bachelor of Commerce (BComm) from University College Dublin in 2000, a master’s degree in Quantitative Finance from UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School in 2002, and a master’s degree in Statistics (MSc) from UCD in 2013. He holds both the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) designations.
Ruoxi has worked in ILIM’s Quantitative Strategies Group since June 2015. He is primarily responsible for portfolio modelling as part of the Portfolio Solutions team. This includes simulation, backtesting, research and implementation of modelling methodologies, along with modelling system maintenance.
Prior to joining ILIM, Ruoxi obtained a BSc in both Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Finance from Xiamen University China over the course of 2010-2014. He graduated with first class honours in MSc Quantitative Finance at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, Ireland in 2015.
Brian is part of the Indexed Fund Management team, responsible for managing a range of equity and fixed income indexed funds.
Prior to joining ILIM in 2012, Brian spent three years with Johnson & Johnson. Working in the Treasury department, he was primarily responsible for the management of Johnson & Johnson’s internal money market fund.
Brian graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2008 with a B.A. Honours Business & Economics degree and received his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2014.
Jack joined ILIM in 2018 and is a quantitative portfolio manager within the Quantitative Strategies Group.
Prior to joining ILIM, Jack worked for RPMI Railpen in London where he was responsible for strategic asset allocation and investment modelling across a range of multi-asset funds.
Jack holds a BA Economics from Trinity College Dublin and an MSc Finance from Warwick Business School. He is a CFA charterholder.
Leonie joined ILIM in 2020 and is a Senior Multi Asset Portfolio Manager in the Portfolio Solutions team.
Prior to joining ILIM, Leonie worked for IBM in their in-house asset management team covering the non-US pension plans. This covered strategic asset allocation, manager selection and portfolio management of a number of pension plans and in-house funds. Before this Leonie worked with Davy in their Private Clients business and spent a number of years as an investment consultant with Willis Towers Watson.
Leonie earned a B.A. Honours degree from Trinity College Dublin in Economics and Philosophy, a Masters in Finance from Cass Business School London and is a CFA charterholder.
Sarah joined ILIM in 2020 as a Quantitative Analyst Specialist within the Quantitative Strategies Group. As a member of the Portfolio Solutions team, Sarah is responsible for modelling portfolios for our clients across all distribution platforms.
Prior to joining ILIM, Sarah graduated with a first class honours Bachelor of Science degree in Financial Mathematics from University College Dublin.
Irish Life Investment Managers (ILIM) is the appointed asset manager to Irish Life Group Limited. ILIM is committed to innovating and leading the market with best in class investment solutions designed to meet the specific investment needs of our clients. Call us at: +353-1-704 1200 or email [email protected]