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Moves Hymans Robertson senior partner John Dickson has been appointed chairman of the board, replacing Ronnie Bowie with immediate effect. JLT Employee Benefits (JLT EB) has recently announced the promotion of James Auty (above) to managing director of The Annuity Bureau. Auty has worked in the pensions industry for 25 years, and he has been a scheme actuary and corporate advisor with JLT EB for 11 of those years. His appointment is subject to the usual formal regulatory approvals.
BBS Consultants & Actuaries have announced that Jude Bennett (below) is to join their board as investment director from 1 April 2014. The internal promotion follows a highly successful year for the
Bristol based firm. The investment division has grown significantly since Bennett joined as an investment actuary in 2009. Sarah MacDonnell (right), a leading expert on periodical payment orders (PPOs), has joined consulting actuaries LCP as a senior consultant. MacDonnell has 20 years’ experience in general insurance actuarial consulting. Her particular areas of interest are PPOs,
industrial disease claims and reserve uncertainty. She has written and presented widely on the subject of PPOs and has been a core member of the PPO working party since its inception in 2010. This year she is chairing the actuarial profession’s GIROC
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Leading legal expenses insurer DAS UK has appointed Richard Percy (right) as chief actuary. Percy will lead the actuarial department, which specialises in all types of legal expenses insurance in
the UK, Canada and Norway. Before joining DAS, Percy was head of commercial & corporate partnership pricing with Lloyds Banking Group General Insurance. Prior to this, he worked as an actuary for Lloyd’s of London.
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Aon Hewitt, pensions consulting.
If you could learn one random skill, what would you learn?
If you could go back in history, who would you like to meet?
How would your best friend describe you?
A good first touch would help my faltering football career enormously.
Crikey, it would have to be Steve Irwin.
Favourite Excel function?
My ‘Tough Mudder’ sweatband is worn with pride after suffering through a half marathon, electrocution and ice baths to earn it.
A bit of a lightweight.
What motivates you? To be the best I can be, and all of the fan mail I am likely to receive after this.
What would be your personal motto? Be yourself because everybody else is taken (I might have stolen that off Mr Wilde).
iferror() manages to hide all my mistakes.
How do you relax away from the office? In the day I like to watch the Arsenal strive to end their trophy drought and at night throw some shapes on the dance floor.
Alternative career choice? Name five dream guests you would invite to your dinner party? I was going to say the band 5ive but then found out there are now only four members mbers so I will go with Arsene Wenger, Derren Brown, Barack Obama, Peter Kay and Mila Kunis.
t? What’s your most ‘actuarial’ habit? For the last World Cup I built a model to try and make money when betting ting but it turned out to be less successfull than Paul the octopus.
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Reserving Practice Survey working party. Before joining LCP, MacDonnell worked for Towers Watson for 16 years and prior to that was with General Accident in Hong Kong.
I have always wanted to be a teacher, something about having a quarter of the year off appeals to me.
Greatest risk you have eever taken? I have done the stand standard adrenaline sports su such as sky diving and bungee jumping, but the questionab questionable kebabs I have eaten after a night out certainly presente presented a greater risk to my health.
What’s your most treasured possession?
What are the top three things you would like to achieve in your lifetime? Get my weekends back (ie qualify), learn to play the guitar as well as David Brent, get a tan.
If you ruled the world, what would you change first? Introduce a scheme that would give all young people the opportunity to see different parts of the world.
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