Actuarial People

Emma is a Senior Consultant at Aon and has recently celebrated her 15 years work anniversary! She sits in the corporate consulting team, advising final salary schemes, some DC schemes and also provides wider pensions advice. We explore Emma’s journey to date, including how she first became an actuary, her experience with the exams, moving from trustee to corporate consulting, becoming a people man...

Jen worked a Life Insurance Actuary for almost 18 years, and today is a Coach for her own business – Soulfire Coaching. Coaching has been mentioned a number of times by my previous guests as an invaluable way to help get the most out of their actuarial careers, so I was absolutely delighted to spend some time with someone who has been both an Actuary and a Coach! After getting a feel for how and w...

In this special episode of Actuarial People, I'm delighted to be joined by Erik Snaathorst! Erik is an Early Careers Manager at Barnett Waddingham, where he is responsible for recruiting for new graduates, internships, apprentices and work experience opportunities across the business. Erik shares his amazing experience on all things relating to getting your first step on the actuarial career ladde...

This week I’m delighted to be joined by James Nunn. James is a qualified actuary, and an Actuarial Tutor for ActEd. He has over 20 years of actuarial experience across both Life Insurance and Pensions Consulting. We discuss everything from James’ love of maths (and running!), to starting his first actuarial role, working for consultancies of different shapes and sizes, transitioning from pensions...

This week on Actuarial People I had the pleasure of speaking with Lloyd Richards! Lloyd is a Director & Head of Actuarial at Crowe UK, and specialises in risk & sustainability consulting. His client base spans across Insurance, Asset Management and other sectors, and he helps to develop and embed their risk management frameworks. In this episode we discuss how Lloyd discovered the actuaria...

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Phillip White! Phil is an Actuarial Consultant at Buck (a Gallagher company) and has 14 years of experience in the pensions industry. We explore Phil's journey to date, and discuss setting sights on becoming an actuary in year 9 of school, getting his first job in pensions as an administrator, transitioning across to an actuarial career path, managing people...

My guest this week is the wonderful Ingrid Chiu! Ingrid is a Lead Consultant at WTW in Reigate, and has 11 years' experience in the pensions sector. We explore Ingrid's career journey to date, discussing her initial 6 week internship, starting full-time on the graduate scheme, her experience with the actuarial exams, and gaining broader experience via secondments & specialist teams. Ingrid als...

This week I'm joined by the wonderful Ji-Hyang Lee! Ji-Hyang is a Senior Consultant & Pensions Actuary at Aon, and has 18 years experience in the industry. We discuss her experience to date, from when she first discovered that Actuaries existed, securing her first role as a graduate, advice on actuarial exam technique, working for consultancies of different shapes and sizes, client relationshi...

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Kylie Arbon! Kylie is a qualified Pensions Actuary, and Head of Transformation at Broadstone. We discuss how Kylie discovered the actuarial profession, her path to qualification, becoming a client facing consultant, her experience with Coaching & Mentoring, and transitioning from a traditional role to specialising in change management and business improv...

This week I'm joined by the wonderful Alexis Tate! Alexis has worked in the actuarial industry for 20 years, and is currently a GMP Operations Lead for Mercer. She is also a people leader, a mental health first aider and has taken on many different roles over her career. In this episode we discuss her journey to date, including how she first joined the actuarial profession, why she decided not to...

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Ilona Roberts! Ilona is a Pensions Actuary & Senior Manager at EY, and specialises in Pensions Risk Transfer consulting. Ilona shares her journey to date, from her first role in pensions working on the pensions review, her path to becoming a traditional pensions actuary (despite her school teacher advising her not to!), her experience of working for cons...

This week on Actuarial People I'm delighted to be joined by Chris Anderson! After a couple of internships in pensions consulting whilst at university, Chris began his actuarial career in life insurance with Standard Life. Today he is a Director and Head of Life Actuarial - Scotland at EY. Chris gives incredible insight into his journey to date as an Actuary. We discuss beginning his career in life...

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Masimba Zata. Masimba is a Director in the Insurance Solutions business at Moody's Analytics. He is also an IFoA Council Member, a member of the Board of Trustees for the IFoA Foundation and a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University. Masimba shares his story to date, from where he first discovered the actuarial profession, beginning his career as a pensio...

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Suchi Dench. Suchi is a Consultant in the Risk Transfer and Funding & Benefits Teams at Mercer. We get to know Suchi and her 10+ year career journey to date, from when she first discovered the actuarial profession, her experience of working on US and UK pension schemes while working in India, her experience of relocating to the UK in 2020, developing her...

Welcome to episode three of Actuarial People, where I'm joined by Simon Harris. Simon began his career as a traditional Pensions Actuary, and is now a Associate Director in the Internal Audit Team of an international Investment Manager, where he is responsible for overseeing audits of the workplace investing business. We spend time getting to know Simon and his career journey to date, from when he...

Welcome to episode two of Actuarial People where I'm delighted to be joined by the wonderful Tasneem Rahman! Tas is a Risk Transfer Consultant with 6 years experience in the UK pensions industry. We talk about everything from when she first discovered actuaries existed, starting her career in pensions, her experience with the actuarial exams, moving from a traditional trustee consulting role to sp...

Welcome to the very first eposode of Actuarial People, where I am delighted to be joined by John Harney! John is a Senior Consultant in Aon's UK pensions team. We start by going right back to when he first became aware that actuaries existed, and discuss everything from his journey to securing his first job, his experience with the actuarial exams, developing a specialism, mentoring & advocacy...