Rubicon Investment Consulting was founded in 2005 by Fiona Daly and Dr Steven Harford. Rubicon was set up to meet the growing demand for clear, comprehensive, impartial and professional advice on the increasingly complex issues facing institutional investors in the modern economic environment.
Fiona Daly is Managing Director and co-founder of Rubicon Investment Consulting. A qualified actuary, Fiona has worked in investment and pensions consulting since 1994. Previously she has worked for Irish Pensions Trust (now Mercer) in their investment consulting department, and Buck Consultants (now WatsonWyatt Heissmann). During her time with Buck Consultants, she was instrumental in setting up and developing the investment consulting department, which she headed for 4 years. She qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1999, choosing investment as her specialist subject for the fellowship exam.
Fiona has many years experience working with pension schemes to determine the most appropriate investment strategy for their individual liability profile. She has also worked with schemes to implement these strategies, from selection of investment managers, through transitioning of assets, to ongoing monitoring of performance and strategy.
Fiona is considered to be one of the leading investment consultants in Ireland, and has written many articles for industry magazines and national newspapers. She frequently speaks at international pensions and investment conferences, and is a regular contributor to both print and radio coverage of pension matters.
Dr Steven Harford is a director and co-founder of Rubicon Investment Consulting. Steven has been working in the pensions industry since 2005. Since then he has been involved in investment strategy, manager selection, performance monitoring and research projects for a range of pension clients.
Prior to setting up Rubicon, Steven was a Computer Scientist with many years of industrial and academic experience. He holds a B.Sc. degree (first class honours) and a Ph.D. degree, both of which he received from Dublin City University. His doctoral research applied Artificial Neural Network technology to the problem of processing temporal patterns, with applications ranging from music retrieval to stock market analysis. Steven was formerly employed as a Software Engineer at IONA Technologies, where he worked on their flagship product Orbix.