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Celebrating women in financial services

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... your earliest memory of being treated differently to your male colleagues? A: In my early twenties, I was presenting actuarial results to the trustee board of a pension fund and every member of the board was male and at least twice my age. The chair ...

Industry fund reviews DB payments

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2021
... said. Defined benefit members joined the fund before the end of 2009 and worked for an eligible Salarylink employer. An actuarial report from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2020 found that the employer contribution rate will remain unchanged at 6.3% based on ...

NEOS shakes up leadership team

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... Sanlam and was the chief actuary for their retail insurance business. During his time at Sanlam, he was involved in actuarial reporting, product development and pricing, business intelligence, risk management and compliance. Kathryn Cussell is the new ...

Actuaries Institute names new president

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... later. He previously worked at Willis Towers Watson. Also hailing from KPMG, Bui first joined the consultancy firm's actuarial business in April 2004 and left eight years later to work at Westpac as an appointed actuary. She rejoined KPMG in July ...

WTW names new head of retirement

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
... Campbell will take on the position effective immediately, after rejoining WTW in 2017 when it acquired the Australian actuarial practice of Russell Investments. She has 30 years' experience, having commenced her actuarial career with WTW as a graduate ...

Insurers must shape up on mental health: TAL

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... products the latest statistics on mental health are "generally not taken into account", with the insurer noting that actuarial tables should be updated regularly to include new diagnostic and treatment regimes and economic factors that predict mental ...

Rice Warner hires fintech, product data lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... footprint. Anthony Saliba will focus on developing client solutions across retirement, advice and technology for the actuarial firm. He worked most recently as a senior actuary for superannuation and investments at CommInsure/AIA Australia for three ...

VFMC hires State Super investments chief

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2020
... State Superannuation Scheme (SSS) and Police Superannuation Scheme (PSS). "[He was] responsible for the investment and actuarial teams and determining and executing the fund's investment strategies, which currently total around $43 billion. This ...

Many who accessed ERS unsure of impact: Research

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... or had not thought about that, or did not care." Co-author and professor of economics at the UNSW School of Risk and Actuarial Studies, Hazel Bateman, said they also compared respondents' estimates of the impact of their withdrawal with a projection ...

Actuary of the Year named

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... briefings and more than 70 articles." Actuaries Institute president Hoa Bui said Lang's work highlights the relevance of actuarial skills in policymaking and real-time national events. "Jennifer's ability to bring rigor with her actuarial skill set ...