The Big Interview: Mark Stopard

Helen Morrissey
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Helen Morrissey talks to Mark Stopard about Sun Life Financial of Canada's acquisition of Lincoln Financial and how they will look to develop the variable annuity market

Tell me about your career so far? I started off my career in pensions with seven years at Mercer and I then went to work as a technical compliance director at a pensioneer trustee company. I then joined Aon and through a management buyout I joined Momentum which was then bought out by Aegon. I was working on the distribution side of group pensions. I then became head of pension and product research at Origen. I was given the option to join The Hartford as a new company looking to enter the UK retirement market – it was very much a gamekeeper turned poacher scenario. I joined Sun Life Fi...

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