Andy Glazier

Partner

Glazier Research & Consulting Ltd

Registered Member

Member since: 27 Mar 2009

Andy, founding Partner of Glazier Research & Consulting, has worked in the ever-changing world of financial services research for some 25 years. Andy started his career as a Graduate Trainee at Taylor Nelson in 1989, working initially alongside Liz Nelson herself, By 2000 he had risen to Director of tns’ Financial & Professional Services Division, with specific responsibility for numerous global accounts, including Abbey, Standard Life and Visa International.In 2006, after a brief spell at Kadence International, Andy joined financial services research experts Consensus, now known as Bright Blue Research. Andy was soon heading-up this greatly respected research team, proudly partnering the likes of the City of London, EY, Legal & General, Lloyds Banking Group, Tesco Bank and Worldpay.In addition to these relationships, Andy continues to work very closely with Swiss Re, having orchestrated the research behind their 2009, 2011 and 2013 UK Insurance Reports, as well as the 2010, 2012 and 2015 European Reports and the inaugural Latin America Report in 2013. The research underpinning the 2013 UK Report was a finalist in both the 2014 Financial Services Forum’s Marketing Effectiveness Awards and the 2014 MRS Financial Services Research Awards.Andy also retains very close links with world-leading savings and investments providers. For the last 3 years of his tenure at Consensus he was Account Manager for NS&I, and he continues to design, manage and present the Fund Manager’s insight benchmark that is the Investment Funds Survey, IFS. Amongst his current clients Andy can count AMP Capital, Canada Life, EdenTree, Inferno, Fidelity, Henderson, Jupiter, LGIM, M&G, Platforum, Spider Marketing and TeamSpirit.Andy is a regular speaker on the Conference circuit, usually sharing the stage with fellow industry voices: - ‘Creating Value for Customers through TCF’, co-presented with Roger Ashworth, Head of Customer Insight at Tesco Bank, at the 2009 MRS Financial Services Conference - 'The Future of the Funds Industry', co-presented with Judy Jones at the ‘IFS 25th Year Anniversary’ Conference in November 2009 - ‘The UK Protection Gap’, co-presented with Ron Wheatcroft, Technical Manager at Swiss Re, at the 2010 MRS Financial Services Conference - 'The Fall and Rise of the Direct Investor', alongside Lucian Camp, at the 2011 MRS Financial Services Conference - ‘Orphaned or Empowered?’ again with Ron Wheatcroft, at the Cello ‘Disruption in FS’ Conference in 2012 - ‘Brand Tracking in FS’, for the Financial Services Forum in November 2013.Andy is an Associate Member of the MRS and a Practitioner Member of the Financial Services Forum.