Future of Retirement press room

Welcome to the Future of Retirement 'Press Room'.

This 'Press Room' provides a convenient resource for journalists and media organisations to complement planned coverage of HSBC Insurance's Future of Retirement 2008.

Clive C R Bannister

Group Managing Director of Insurance, HSBC Holdings plc

Clive Bannister has been the Group Managing Director of Insurance since 1 November 2006, responsible for all aspects of Insurance in the HSBC Group. Employing 10,000 professionals in ten major countries, HSBC's insurance business comprises direct, reinsurance, life and general insurance, focusing primarily on individuals and their families. In addition, the Group operates a wholesale broker, HSBC Insurance Brokers Ltd, as well as a captive insurance company called HSBC Insurance (Bermuda) Ltd, which provides reinsurance for the Group's risks.

Prior to this, Mr Bannister was appointed Chief Executive of HSBC Group Private Banking in 1998. He became Group General Manager and CEO of HSBC Group Private Banking in July 2001.

Between 1996 and 1998, Clive was Head of Investment Banking and Deputy CEO of HSBC Securities Inc in New York, overseeing the Group's debt and equity securities business in the Americas.

In 1998, Mr Bannister also took up a role of Special Advisor to the then Group Chairman, John Bond, for developing HSBC Group’s five-year strategy "Managing for Value".

From 1994 to 1996, Clive Bannister was Director and Head of Planning and Strategy, HSBC Investment Bank Holdings plc.

Before joining HSBC in 1994, Clive was a Partner in the financial consulting practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton. He has an MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Exeter College, Oxford University.

Kyran Bracken

Career Achievements

Club Level
Bristol RFU 1992-96
1992-93 Northern Division (tours of Zimbabwe, Namibia)
Saracens RFU 1996-03
90 Appearances 10 Tries

International Level
England 3 Tries 51 Caps
England A (1994)
England Under 21
England Schools 16 Group (1988-1990 as captain)
British and Irish Lions South Africa (1997)
Barbarians (1997)

Honours
South West Division Championship (1993)
Tetley Bitter Cup (1998)
IRB Rugby World Cup (2003)

Awards & Qualifications

LLB (Hons) Bristol University (1992)
BBC West Player of the Year (1993/1994)
Law Society Finals (passed 1994), admitted to the Roll of a Solicitor (1996)
Awarded MBE in New Year’s Honours List (2004)

Kyran Bracken has experienced the highs and lows of first class rugby union and has witnessed first-hand the transition to the professional game. During his time at Bristol Kyran continued to have a successful career in law until the advent of professionalism in 1996 and his transfer to Saracens.

During his time on the field, Kyran could pass accurately off both hands, was a strong defender, kicked well and always posed an attacking threat with great speed from a standing start.

He battled back from a career threatening back injury to regain his captaincy and scrum half position at Saracens and won a place in Clive Woodward's triumphant 2003 England World Cup, making 4 appearances including winning his 50th Cap against Wales in the quarter-final.

Kyran's contribution to English rugby has been immense over his career, celebrating his testimonial year with Saracens in 2004/2005 and is now carrying out more commercial engagements.

Kyran starred in and won ITV1's celebrity ice dancing competition 'Dancing On Ice'. In the semi-final he received the highest score in the history of 'Dancing on Ice' so far (29.5 out of a possible 30) and was voted into the final alongside actress Clare Buckfield and former Blue member Duncan James.

He won the final on 17th March 2007 after a performance which included the required element of "flying" on wires and a final performance of Bolero. On the 24th March 2007 he won the special edition of Dancing On Ice 'The Champion of Champions', after repeating his record 29.5 point score.

Kyran is currently touring the country with the extremely popular show, "Holiday on Ice". Interests include cooking, squash, golf and the theatre. He is also established as a superb motivational and after dinner speaker.

Professor Sarah Harper

Sarah Harper is Professor of Gerontology at Oxford University and Director of the Oxford Institute of Ageing, a multi-disciplinary research unit concerned with the implications of population ageing. Her research concerns globalization and global ageing, and the impact of population change, in particular the implications at the global, societal and individual level of the shift in population ages from predominantly young to predominantly older societies. Particular research interests are the impact of this demographic shift on family relationships and work. She is PI with George Leeson on the HSBC Global Ageing Study, a survey of 21,000 men and women aged 40 to 80 in 21 countries.

She continues her professional commitments as a Governor, Pensions Policy Institute; member of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) Advisory Board; Global Advisor on Ageing to HSBC; Member, Help the Aged's Research Strategy Committee and Help the Aged's Social Policy Committee; and Chair of the Global Commission on Ageing. Sarah is a founding joint editor (with George Leeson) of the new Journal of Population Ageing, published by Springer. She serves as the UK International Collaborator on the Australian Research Council/NHMRC Research Network in Ageing Well; and member of the Scientific Programme Committee of the 2008 IFA Conference (Montreal). She is the author of several books including most recently Ageing Societies: Myths, Challenges and Opportunities. Hodder Arnold, 2006.