This week we had the pleasure of talking to Ben Habib

Ben founded and is CEO of First Property Group plc, an award winning commercial property fund manager with operations in the United Kingdom and Central Europe.

Prior to setting up First Property, Ben was Managing Director of a private property development company, JKL Property Ltd, from 1994 – 2000. He started his career in corporate finance in 1987 at Shearson Lehman Brothers. He moved in 1989 to PWS Holdings plc, a FTSE 350 Lloyds reinsurance broker, to be its Finance Director

Over lunch we discussed some of the issues surrouning pensions investing by trustee boards.

• how do you approach working with pension funds 


• What do you think pension funds can do to steady investments in this time of economic uncertainty 


• Do you think Brexit is going to negatively affect pensions investing 


• If you could influence the government what changes would you like to see