Phoenix Group, the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, today announces the appointment of Anna Franekova as Corporate Development Director, effective 1 March 2022. Anna will report directly to Andy Briggs, Group CEO, and serve as a member of Phoenix Group’s Executive Committee.

In this new role, Anna will be responsible for driving and overseeing Phoenix Group’s corporate activity, including identifying and delivering growth opportunities through M&A. This Executive Committee position has been created to reflect the Group’s ambition to continue its inorganic growth strategy and build on its position as the market leader in heritage M&A and integration.

Anna joins from JPMorgan Chase where she was a Managing Director within the investment banking division. She brings over 15 years of experience in the insurance sector across mergers and acquisitions, capital markets transactions, balance sheet management and other strategic leadership activities.

Andy Briggs, CEO of Phoenix Group, said: “We are delighted Anna will be joining us, who brings a breadth of capital markets, advisory and leadership experience that will support us in continuing to achieve progress against our strategic priorities. With an estimated market size of £480 billion, there is a huge opportunity for further UK heritage book consolidation. With Anna’s experience in M&A we will continue to build on our position as the market leader in the sector.”

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Enquiries

Shellie Wells
Head of Corporate Communications
Phoenix Group
07872 414 137 / 0203 735 0922
Shellie.wells@thephoenixgroup.com

Notes to editors

About Phoenix Group

Phoenix is the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business, with £300 billion of assets under administration and c.13 million customers.

We are a growing and sustainable business with a clear purpose – helping people secure a life of possibilities. This means taking responsible and sustainable investment decisions, and using our presence and voice to advocate on behalf of the UK’s savers. We understand that our scale and expertise means that we have an important role to play for our customers, colleagues and our communities.

As life expectancy continues to increase and the pension landscape continues to shift, we will continue to be a safe and dependable ally in the journey to and through retirement for millions of customers, by providing the right guidance and products, at the right time, to support the right choices. We offer a broad range of products for people across all stages of the savings life cycle.

Our strategy focuses on delivering long term, sustainable value and, to fulfil our purpose, focuses on five key areas to ensure we respond to changing customer needs, manage our capital position well, create value, inspire our people, and put sustainability at the heart of our business.

Phoenix is a FTSE 100 company and we feature in the FTSE 100 ESG Select Index. In 2020 we committed to our operations being net zero carbon by 2025 and our investment portfolios by 2050. We have also set near term targets as part of our journey, which will reduce carbon emission intensity by at least 50% by 2030 for £250bn of investments where we have control and influence. Within this, some £160bn of pension investments will be contributing to this reduction, helping millions of people to invest in the future they want to live in.

We are playing an active role in helping to build back better and greener as we invest for the future.

We are a Living Wage Employer and recognised as a Carer Positive Exemplary Employer for offering the best support to colleagues who are carers.