Martin Dietz – Head of Diversified Strategies, Asset Allocation. Martin is a fund manager and asset allocator in LGIM's Multi-Asset Funds team and has over 15 years of experience with alternative asset classes and the management of fund-of-funds. At LGIM, he is currently responsible for a range of DC-focused diversified growth funds typically holding 40% in alternatives (real assets and alternative credit) including up to 10% in illiquids (property and private credit). Prior to joining LGIM in September 2012, Martin was a senior investment consultant at Towers Watson where he was a member of its Global Investment Committee and UK Portfolio Construction Group. At TW, his responsibilities included asset class and manager research on liquid and illiquid alternatives. Martin previously worked as a manager at Ernst & Young in its Financial Services Risk Management. He has a PhD (summa cum laude) in economics and finance from the University of St Gallen, graduated from the doctoral programme of the Swiss National Bank at Gerzensee and was a visiting PhD student in economics at UC Berkeley.