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Zurich cleans up at Plan For Life awards

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2015
... also in the range of products available and the increased levels of service provided to purchasers," said Plan For Life actuary Simon Solomon. "During the last five years it has matured to the point where it now has the ability to meet much of the needs ...

FEATURE: Reshaping insurance

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... regular basis we review the insurance offer that we provide to the members at REST," he says, "and we use an independent actuary to help us understand what would be fair value for our members in terms of giving them different forms of life insurance. ...

Government could force QIC to fund Queensland infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... "The scheme will remain 100% fully funded at all times," Pitt said, and added that according to valuations by the State Actuary, the defined benefit scheme has a funding surplus of more than $10 billion. "Queensland is the only Australian jurisdiction ...

PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... statistics. She then decided to pursue an actuarial career and joined an insurance company that acted as a consulting actuary for South African pension funds. "The industry was quite male-dominated at the time. Back then I didn't really see it as a challenge. ...

AIST and Mercer launch new super tracker

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015
... policy changes may have on the overall costs of the superannuation system to Government. Mercer senior partner and senior actuary Dr David Knox said that recent inquiries into superannuation reiterate the need for evidence based evaluation. "We've had ...

La Trobe Financial appoints head of institutional mandates

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ in Sydney prior to accepting his new role. He also worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an actuary and was at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in 2001 within the London based Global Securitisation team. La Trobe Financial ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... eastern part of the city, he studied commerce and actuarial science at the University of Toronto. His first job was as an actuary at life insurance company Canada Life. It was there that his lifelong association with pensions began. But in 1990, eight ...

PROFILE: AMP SMSF managing director Natasha Fenech

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... finishing her Bachelor of Economics and Mathematics in Adelaide. She was 22 and had just moved to Sydney to work as an actuary. "I realised quickly that I didn't want to have a career as an actuary," she says. "But the real shock was when my boss told ...

FSC appoints AMP exec to the board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... was managing director of RGA Reinsurance Company of Australia and before that was chief financial officer and appointed actuary for Asteron Life. She was previously on the FSC board from February 2010 until November 2012. Blight-Johnston is also a director ...

Industry fund claims experience worse than retail: PWC

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... difference between industry and master trusts will be in the insurance offering," he said. RGA Australia chief pricing actuary Martyn Gilling acknowledged that the claims experience is different in industry and retail funds, but added that "different ...