Actuarial Event
| 14.00 — 14.15 |
Welcome and Introduction |
| 14.15 — 15.00 | Keynote Talk: Stuart R. McDonald MBE Chartered Actuary | LCP Partner | CMI Deputy Chair | Longevity and Demographic Insights |
| 15:05 —15:30 |
Breakout Session 1: Learn about the training track early-career actuaries go through. |
| 15:35—16:00 |
Expert Talk 1: Amy Zhang Actuary & Manager PwC Reading |
| 16:05—16:30 |
Breakout Session 2: Tips and advice from early-career actuaries on how to make a successful application. |
| 16:35—17:00 |
Expert Talk 2: Gulfraz Ahmed ERM Project Actuary at the Phoenix Group |
| 17:00—18:00 |
Networking and refreshments |
When & Where
Week 4, Wednesday 29th October at Oculus
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Breakout Sessions with early-career actuaries
- Tim Robinson (MORSE '24) —prev. actuarial intern in summer '23 and now Actuarial Analyst at Aon.
- Rosie Burgess (MORSE '24) — Actuarial Analyst at Aon.
- Neel Shah (MMORSE '24) —Associate in the P&C Consulting Team in the Strategy and Technology Group, Aon.
- Nayan Mistry (MORSE '22) —Marine and Property Retro Actuarial Analyst at Aon.
- Megan Harper (MORSE '23) — prev. Investment Analyst and now Senior Investment Analyst (since Jan '25) at Barnett Waddingham.
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Arjun Das (MSc MathStat '23) - Actuarial Trainee at Canada Life.
- Ben Doran (BSc Maths '19) — prev. trainee, associate and now Actuary at First Actuarial.
Keynote
Stuart R. McDonald MBE
(BSc Mathematics & Statistics, 1998) is Head of Longevity and Demographic Insights and a Partner at LCP. Stuart helps clients understand and manage the impact of mortality trends, leveraging insights from LCP’s Health Analytics practice. He advises some of the UK's largest pension schemes as well as leading insurers and reinsurers. Prior to joining LCP, he held a variety of commercial and technical actuarial roles with insurers and global reinsurers.
He is Deputy Chair of the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) and founded and co-chaired the influential Covid-19 Actuaries Response Group. Stuart was awarded an MBE for services to Public Health in the 2022 New Year Honours for his work during the pandemic.
Expert Talks
Amy Zhang
(MMORSE, 2019) is a Pensions Actuary Manager at PwC. Amy joined PwC’s actuarial pensions team as an intern in 2018 and returned as a graduate in 2019 after completing her MMORSE degree. Since then, she has worked on a wide range of projects in relation to Defined Benefit pension schemes, from liability valuations, financial reporting to advising companies on long-term strategies and preparing pension schemes for insurance transactions.
Amy became exam qualified in 2022, and what she has enjoyed most since then is combining technical actuarial work with consulting - helping clients navigate the evolving pensions landscape, solving problems and translating complex ideas into something clear and actionable.
Amy is also passionate about upskilling, training and wellbeing. She has led PwC’s graduate training programme and now supports student actuaries as part of her people management role.
Gulfraz Ahmed
(BSc Mathematics, 2017) is ERM Project Actuary at the Phoenix Group.
Gulfraz joined the Phoenix Group as an intern in the With-Profits Management team in 2017 and then joined the Phoenix actuarial study scheme. He has worked across a range of departments at Phoenix, starting in the Economic Scenario Generator team. He then worked on a project to harmonise Phoenix's Internal Model with that of Standard Life, who were acquired by Phoenix in 2018. Since qualifying as an actuary, he has worked in the Actuarial Review team, reviewing Phoenix's Solvency Capital Requirement and recently moved into the Equity Release Mortgages (ERM) Development team working on projects relating to Phoenix's ERM business.
Gulfraz is passionate about supporting student actuaries at Phoenix. He has line managed a student in his team, acted as a student mentor and delivered internal tutorials for the CP1 (Actuarial Principles) exam.