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Moves Insight Risk Consulting has appointed Matthew Evans (above) as a director. He will be responsible for growing the firm’s pricing offering. He joins from Amlin, where he held actuarial pricing manager roles for both the syndicate and, latterly, the wider property and casualty business unit. Before Amlin, he was head of pricing for Chaucer Syndicates, having started his career at consultants EMB.
Alan Swallow (below) has joined actuarial and pensions firm Cartwright Group as senior actuary. He was previously at Capita, and qualified 17 years ago. Swallow will report to Robert Sweet, director of Cartwright Group and its actuarial business, and will be based at the firm’s Farnborough office. Swallow was pivotal to growing SBJ’s employee benefits proposition in the Midlands, which was latterly subsumed into
Capita Employee Benefits. He chaired their Economic Assumptions Group and has been involved with the IFoA, chairing a number of pension seminars for actuaries. He brings a wealth of experience in providing integrated investment, funding and risk management solutions to clients. Cronje & Yiannas Actuaries and Consultants has expanded its consulting team by recruiting Stephanos Hadjistyllis
the group chief actuary. Roberts was previously a director at Towers Watson, where he had been for nearly 21 years.
(above). He previously worked for P-Solve and Punter Southall in London, where he trained as a consulting actuary, advising pension funds on actuarial valuations and investment matters. Phil Roberts (right) has joined Old Mutual as
Mercer has announced the appointment of Simon O’Regan (right) to president, North America. O’Regan was previously president of the Mercer EuroPac
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How would your best friend describe you? A Chandler Bing level of sarcasm, mixed with a Ross Geller level of nerdiness, sprinkled with a Joey Tribiani fondness of food.
What motivates you? The people I work with – family, and life credos are always important motivations – but you spend most of your day working with your team.
What would be your personal motto? As Shaggy said: ‘It wasn’t me’.
Name five dream companions to be stuck on a desert island with? Captain Jack Sparrow (an
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region, which includes Europe as well as Australia and New Zealand. He is a 27-year Mercer veteran, with a career spanning multiple financial areas and business segments, including life and health insurance, pensions, investments, retirement, risk and finance.
ACTUARY OF THE FUTURE expert in this field), Sir Alex Ferguson (an extremely wise man), Novak Djokovic (for beach tennis), Beyoncé (for campfire songs)… and Wilson, from the film Cast Away.
What’s your most ‘actuarial’ habit? Modelling my revision plans on a spreadsheet.
Favourite Excel function? IndexMatch – my life’s never been the same.
How do you relax away from the office?
What song best describes your work ethic? Kanye West – Touch The Sky.
Greatest risk you have ever taken? I’m not fond of taking risks – which explains why I’m going to be an actuary.
If you could go back in history, who would you like to meet? Steve Jobs – for having the foresight to see what people needed in the future.
If there was a movie produced about your life, who would play you, and why? Tom Hardy – because he’s awesome.
Music, exercise and movies.
If you could be anyone else, who would it be?
What is the funniest thing that has happened to you recently?
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Losing to my 10-year-old cousin at Monopoly – I saw the funny side eventually.
Alternative career choice? The next Paul Scholes.
Do you know an actuary destined for greatness? You can nominate an Actuary of the Future by emailing
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