Eric Hunt

Eric Hunt
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Eric Hunt is Group Pensions Manager at BAA and is responsible for all matters relating to policy, investment and administration of the fund which has assets in excess of £1.7bn.He has been with BAA for 25 years and is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute.Previously a consultant with Sedgwick Noble Lowndes for ten years, the earlier days of his career were spent with a major insurance company."

Eric Hunt Group Pensions Manager
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GI: Eric, what are the problems you're facing at BAA?

Eric Hunt, BAA: Geof outlined the issues very well, but it's important that you concentrate on what's appropriate for yourself and not be swept away by the big picture.
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Hunt: I think that's right.
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Hunt: That's right, you've got to be able to generate those discussions and there's got to be that flexibility on everybody's part.
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Hunt: That's exactly right ? it's about are they doing what they say they're going to do?
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Hunt: That's true, but what I'm saying is we only get to see that after the event.

Eric Hunt, group pension manager at BAA, the London-based international airport company, says his pension fund dropped its allocations in UK equities from 85% to 35% last year, and considered property, private equity and guaranteed products for the first time.Hunt said it was the best "funded" of all FTSE 100 corporate pensions in November 2003.

"Despite the stock market falls of recent years, the BAA scheme remains in modest surplus on its standard actuarial assumptions.We continue to review other asset classes, including alternatives, and will be looking very closely at 'financial engineering' solutions in the next three to six months," he told Financial Engineering News in early November.

Eric Hunt, group pension manager at BAA, the London-based international airport company, says his pension fund dropped its allocations in UK equities from 85% to 35% last year, and considered property, private equity and guaranteed products for the first time.Hunt said it was the best "funded" of all FTSE 100 corporate pensions in November 2003.

"Despite the stock market falls of recent years, the BAA scheme remains in modest surplus on its standard actuarial assumptions.We continue to review other asset classes, including alternatives, and will be looking very closely at ‘financial engineering' solutions in the next three to six months," he told Financial Engineering News in early November.

Eric Hunt
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Eric Hunt is Group Pensions Manager at BAA and is responsible for all matters relating to policy, investment and administration of the fund which has assets in excess of £1.7bn.He is a Fellow of the Pensions Management Institute.

The Forum is advised by an Advisory Committee comprising only pension fund representatives: Wendy Mayall (Chairman), Unilever Superannuation Fund; Penny Green (Vice Chairman), SAUL Trustee Company; Eric Hunt, BAA; Geoff Reader, Bedfordshire County Council; Colin Hartridge-Price, BT Pension Scheme; Chris Hitchen, Railways Pension Trustee Co.