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QBE chief executive departs in leadership restructure

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... restructuring of the executive team has also seen the introduction of a chief underwriting officer role. QBE's group chief actuary, Declan Moore, will take on the newly created role as of 22 August. Moore has over 25 years of insurance operations and ...

APRA outlines plans to refocus Appointed Actuary role

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has proposed improvements for the Appointed Actuary role within insurance companies. The Appointed Actuary is a mandatory position insurers must have to provide independent, expert advice to boards ...

Align with super's purpose, not politics

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2016
... that," Ashenden said. "When you look at segregation from a tax purpose you tend to look backwards - you might need an actuary to give you a certificate to say this is how much income of the fund will be exempt from tax. Going forwards, it's about looking ...

QSuper calms super raid fears

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) funding standards that apply to similar corporate schemes. The State Actuary has advised that a repatriation of up to $5 billion could be undertaken while maintaining consistency with APRA funding standards," ...

PROFILE: Mercer senior partner David Knox

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... for the institution known as National Mutual - which is no longer - for four years. During this time he qualified as an actuary through what was the London Institute. "I wanted to do a bit more thinking on actuarial matters and went back to Macquarie ...

Government acts on income streams review

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2016
... annual minimum drawdown requirements be consistent with the objective of superannuation and the Australian Government Actuary should be asked to undertake a review of the annual minimum drawdown rates every five years. "Any other changes to the minimum ...

New insurance industry guidance on its way

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2016
... readily be maintained. Also speaking at the session named "An industry plan for sustainable insurance" was CHR Consulting actuary Jeff Humphreys who said the insurance market suffered a profitability "crisis" during 2013 which saw a withdrawal of capital ...

PROFILE: Mercer chief customer officer Renee McGowan

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2016
... subsidiary of Colonial that focused on superannuation. "I didn't know what the word superannuation meant and I heard the word actuary for the first time then," she says. But "I had a fantastic mentor and she pushed me really hard and helped me learn ...

FEATURE: The circle of life

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... "it starts to shift what the solution might be." "We ran a whole stack of different sort of scenarios. We worked with an actuary, we worked with our investment advisers and went through all the data to try and find or work out what delivers the optimal ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... explains. AMP picked his, even though "in those days you were never set out to have a career in finance unless you were an actuary. But I'm glad I did." Three years later Smith started working for consultancy firm Noble Lowndes Superannuation Consultants ...