Edmund is CEO and Founder of Pension Corporation. Pension Corporation was set up in 2006 to provide pension insurance, or the selling of bulk annuities to UK defined benefit pension schemes. It has also pioneered the direct acquisition of corporate assets with large pension schemes and is now the corporate sponsor of schemes totalling over £4bn of assets.
Edmund has twenty two years experience in private equity and debt market. He led the 1998 buyout and formation of Duke Street Capital (“DSC”), having been Chief Executive since 1994. During his tenure as Group CEO, DSC’s private equity funds under management grew to over €2 billion on the back of excellent performance. DSC’s 27 realised private equity investments in the last eleven years have had an average gross IRR of 34%. The firm boasts one of the most complete exit records of any mid market European buyout investor, with only eleven investments left in the portfolio.
Edmund was responsible in 2000 for creating and building Duke Street Capital Debt Management, one of Europe’s largest and most successful CDO managers, which was sold to Babson Capital in 2004.
Edmund was Chairman of the British Venture Capital Association 2001-2002. He is a Trustee of the Galapagos Conservation Trust.
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