Sam Gervaise-Jones

Sam Gervaise-Jones, CFA

Senior Director, Head of Client Consulting UK & Ireland

Sam Gervaise-Jones is head of client consulting for the UK and Ireland. Sam has over 20 years of experience in financial markets. He joined bfinance in 2004 where, as a Senior Associate in the research team, Sam advised clients on manager selection in a wide range of asset classes. Since 2007 Sam has been responsible for relationships with many of bfinance’s largest Corporate and Local Authority Pension clients in the UK. More recently, Sam led the expansion of bfinance into the US and bfinance’s activities with the LGPS Pooling organisations. In 2020, Sam was appointed as Independent Adviser to Cambridgeshire Pension Fund. Prior to bfinance, Sam spent 4 years with Standard & Poor’s in their fund rating business. Sam holds the CFA charter, IMC and Series 7, 24, 62 and 79 designations in addition to an MA (Oxon) in Mathematics from the University of Oxford.


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