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Actuary of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
The Actuaries Institute named the principal at Sydney-based actuarial consultancy Taylor Fry as the 2021 Actuary of the Year for his work on social issues. Hugh Miller focuses on using data and complex analysis to improve public policy outcomes including ...

UniSuper's O'Sullivan on what's next

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... staying away from mergers. O'Sullivan arrived at UniSuper in 2013, after a career that started as a life insurance actuary in his native country of Canada. He moved to Melbourne in 1990 for a consulting job with Towers Perrin. Later he worked as ...

DWS Group hires client coverage head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
... for Asia Pacific. Prior to this, Wang spent over 15 years at Mercer, starting as a principal consultant and consulting actuary before becoming partner Asia head of retirement, risk and finance consulting. "We are delighted to welcome Vanessa to the team ...

AIA executive joins MLC Life

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... responsible for the completion of AIA's purchase of CommInsure Life. He initially joined AIA as executive manager - portfolio actuary and business partner. He was previously in the same role at CommInsure where he focused on the CommInsure life product ...

Generational wealth gap continues to widen

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... intergenerational wealth gap only widening. Speaking at the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, Taylor Fry principal actuary Hugh Miller explained the gap in wealth between the older age group and the younger age group is widening. "The long-term ...

COVID support temporarily improves inequality

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... younger people doing slightly better than they have previously, closing what had been a record gap between generations," actuary Hugh Miller, who compiled the Index along with actuaries Ramona Meyricke and Laura Dixie, said. "But the change is likely ...

Rice Warner prepares to shut up shop

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... and VicSuper (which created First State Super, now Aware) and the proposed merger between Media Super and Cbus. Rice and actuary David Knox have both been active in public policy discussions on superannuation. Rice Warner said that in 1996 Knox and Rice ...

ClearView bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
... risk officer for Australia and head of research. Prior to that, he was corporate actuarial manager at Swiss Re and chief actuary at ANZ Wealth. "Given my background and experience, I can bring the perspectives of risk management, product structure and ...

Super funds to answer to new APRA enforcer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... of the group. "Superannuation is a natural fit for Margaret given her background. Helen, as well as being a qualified actuary, was one of APRA's senior insurance supervisors earlier in her career and was heavily involved in the design of APRA's ...

Challenger names new head of life unit

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... in senior human resources positions. Plater has moved onto a newly created role of head of operations and technology. Actuary and chief financial officer of the life business Anton Kapel acted as the life business' chief executive for about four ...