TRANSCRIPT https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=d8a41000-795d-40d6-99f7-00eb8f57880c DESCRIPTION In this installment of the Actuaries Institute podcast series, Angat Sandhu interviews Peter Tilocca, an executive in the underwriting industry for over 25 years and currently Chief Underwriter at ANZ wealth to discuss the partnership between OnePath and UTS Advanced Analytics Institute, the importance of complex data collection, analysis and how it’s beginning to transform und...
May 24, 2019•15 min
TRANSCRIPT https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=ecb33806-ad71-4397-a782-fbba63c3f877 DESCRIPTION In this instalment of the Diversity and Inclusion podcast series, Mark Baxter and Stephen Kwa discuss their experiences as gay men in the profession. Discussion topics include: •Societal shifts towards acceptance of same-sex attracted people •Being a minority within a minority •Conservative attitudes in families and the workplace •Straight allies and the importance of stepping ...
May 15, 2019•17 min
TRANSCRIPT https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=1fe5c8de-7a06-4e4f-9f3e-5af6b09b6362 DESCRIPTION In the final instalment of this four-part series, Martin Mulcare (Actuary, Director at the Growth Project and Facilitator of the Professionalism Course at the Actuaries Institute) interviews Ian and Jess Pollard, on their co-authored book Mental Spinach. This episode revolves around "The Sustainability Lens” and how to avoid burnout by living and working sustainability. Discuss...
May 10, 2019•16 min
TRANSCRIPT https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=7eaaea3e-7c6b-48b8-8992-1bc898b76d72 DESCRIPTION In part three of this four-part series, Martin Mulcare (Actuary, Director at the Growth Project and Facilitator of the Professionalism Course at the Actuaries Institute) interviews Ian and Jess Pollard, on their co-authored book Mental Spinach. This episode revolves around "Your Productivity Equation", and how to create the greatest impact in your career, relationships and life...
May 03, 2019•18 min
TRANSCRIPT https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=4fbb268b-f85a-47b8-a680-9b6e2dde85fe DESCRIPTION In part two of this four-part series, Martin Mulcare (Actuary, Director at the Growth Project and Facilitator of the Professionalism Course at the Actuaries Institute) interviews Ian and Jess Pollard, on their co-authored book Mental Spinach. This episode revolves around "The Opportunity Lens", and how to create your own luck and opportunities. Discussion topics include: • The ...
Apr 12, 2019•15 min
Public Policy Advisor at the Actuaries Institute, John McLenaghan interviews Ian Laughlin and Hadyn Bernau on their thought leadership paper "the dialogue - social condition report". They reflect on the impacts and fallouts of the royal commission, financial services enquiries and how a social condition report can help identify future social risks that were previously not taken into account. TRANSCRIPT https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=eb437683-2d14-483f-97a9-4b2a1db36c...
Apr 08, 2019•15 min
TRANSCRIPT https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=b22fc111-456f-472b-be5d-c12d447cc3b2 DESCRIPTION In part one of this four-part series, Martin Mulcare (Actuary, Director at the Growth Project and Facilitator of the Professionalism Course at the Actuaries Institute) interviews Ian and Jess Pollard, on their co-authored book Mental Spinach. Ian is an actuary, Rhodes Scholar, international tennis player and currently the chairman of RGA Reinsurance Australia. Jess is a career ...
Apr 05, 2019•19 min
Transcript https://actuaries.logicaldoc.cloud/download-ticket?ticketId=7df02de6-bf3d-481c-97f5-1ffe50a39af4 David Whittle (Principal at Deloitte, Councillor of Actuaries Institute) and Matthew Maguire (Partner at NMG Financial Services Consulting, President of the Singapore Actuarial Society) discuss the General Insurance market in Asia. Discussion questions include; - What are the catastrophe risks within General Insurance and reinsurance in Asia? - What are the key considerations for insurers ...
Mar 07, 2019•21 min
Ashish Ahluwalia (Principal at Finity Consulting and member of the Diversity and Inclusion Working Group) interviews Nicolette Rubinsztein, the 2019 President of the Actuaries Institute on her life, career and experiences with gender diversity in the workplace. Nicolette is committed to increasing focus on diversity in the workplace alongside the Institute's Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (DIWG) Find out more: https://actuaries.asn.au/about-us/governance/committees/all-committees/members?...
Feb 15, 2019•21 min
Partner at Oliver Wyman and Chief Editor of Actuaries Digital, Angat Sandhu interviews Simon O’Dell, CEO of InsurTech Australia to discuss how the Insurance industry is facing disruption by a new wave of insurtechs and startups. Show Notes: Fast Five with Fintechs: https://www.actuaries.digital/?s=fast+five Insurtech articles: https://www.actuaries.digital/?s=insurtech Follow the Actuaries Institute across all social; ↳ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Actuaries-Institute/183337668450632...
Jan 24, 2019•18 min
Angela Tatarow interviews self described 'actuary without border' and runner up of the Institute's Weapons of Mass Deduction video competition Queenie Chow. Queenie discusses her career path, experiences working abroad, why she's passionate about being part of the institutes Diversity and Inclusion working Group and what inspired her to create her entry for the Weapons of Mass Deduction competition. Queenie also touches on her niche role in microinsurance. SHOW NOTES Actuaries Without Borders ww...
Dec 14, 2018•19 min
Ignatius Li interviews Dr. Raymond Yeow on his experiences and career as an actuary turned doctor. Show Notes Future of Health Seminar https://actuaries.asn.au/microsites/future-of-health-seminar-2018 Health Practice Committee https://actuaries.asn.au/practice-area/health Making Medicare: The Politics of Universal Health Care in Australia Authored by Anne-Marie Boxall and James Gillespie http://www.publish.csiro.au/AH/pdf/AHv38n1_BR1 Davidson's Principles and Practice of Medicine: 12th edition h...
Dec 14, 2018•21 min
John McLenaghan (Public Policy Advisor Advisor at the Actuaries Institute) sits down with Andrew Brown, a consulting actuary and Council member to discuss his new paper, 'Building Adaptive Capacity - Individuals, Groups & Society' as part of the Institute's Dialogue thought leadership series. John and Andrew discuss; - How and why culture can come from the top - Factors that cause venerable public and private institutions to fall from grace - How boards and management can really transform cu...
Dec 02, 2018•17 min
Tuan Ming and Elayne Grace discuss the rapid growth of online insurance in Asia and the Chinese appetite for product innovation and business opportunities in this area. This is the second instalment in our ‘Inside Asia’ podcast series which aims to explore the experiences of actuaries working in Asia or moving between the Australian and Asian markets. On 27 August 2018, Elayne Grace, CEO of the Actuaries Institute, and Tuan Ming, Head of ASEAN, China, HK and India Regions at Gen Re (for Life &am...
Nov 27, 2018•12 min
Tuan Ming, Head of ASEAN, China, HK and India Regions at Gen Re (for Life & Health), travels extensively for work and he joins Elayne on the inaugural ‘Inside Asia’ to discuss life, career and advice for actuaries. This is the first instalment in our ‘Inside Asia’ podcast series which aims to explore the experiences of actuaries working in Asia or moving between the Australian and Asian markets. The second instalment on the booming online insurance market in China is here. What do you do in ...
Nov 27, 2018•18 min
Tim Andrews (Principal at Finity Consulting) and Vanessa Beenders (Practice Excellence Advisor at the Actuaries Institute) met to discuss Tim's involvement in the creation of the Australian Actuaries Climate Index and why it's necessary for businesses and actuaries to utilise the data. Tim expands on how the Australian Actuaries Climate Index was created and why actuaries and wider industries should be utilising the index to inform their business decisions and inform their risk management framew...
Nov 12, 2018•29 min
Effective data scientists need to understand the workings of IT teams and identify the limits of truth in models, says Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Ambiata. Tiberio was interviewed by Anthony Tockar on the Actuaries Institute’s podcast last month. This is the second episode from that conversation (the first explored the ethics of machine learning). If an actuary is working as a data scientist for a large organisation with millions of customers and complex internal IT legacy systems, being a...
Oct 31, 2018•20 min
Head of Actuarial and Analytics at World Nomads and Weapons of Mass Deduction judge Jacky Poon interviews Andrew Xu, Actuary at Finity Consulting, on his entry into the WOMD competition, focusing on Geospatial analysis and a career in data analytics. Andrew created an entry that incorporated animation, Google Maps street view and motion graphics to explain the importance of Geospatial analysis and how it is used by actuaries for geographical models. He is one of the Top 3 entrants along with Min...
Oct 30, 2018•26 min
Angat Sandhu and Katherine Gobbi share their unique insights into claims management, it's place in the insurance value chain, future opportunities and key trends in the area. Katheirne Gobbi is Chief Executive Officer at EMLife, leading a team of life insurance claims specialists dedicated to making life easier for insurance partners and their customers with over 15 years experience in personal injury claims management and working with regulatory bodies. She met with Angat Sandhu on September 19...
Oct 25, 2018•24 min
Download the MP3 file here https://api.spreaker.com/v2/episodes/15816934/download.mp3 Dr Raymond Yeow and Dr Kevin Cheng discuss the future of health insurance including a focus on Dr Kevin's Osana care model and a sneak peek into his plenary session at the upcoming Future of Health Seminar. Register now! https://www.actuaries.asn.au/FOHS2018...
Sep 27, 2018•15 min
The Institute’s latest Dialogue thought leadership paper explores where better outcomes can be delivered and significant savings can be made in social welfare through better data analytics. Vanessa Beenders from the HQ Public Policy team interviews Hugh Miller, Principal Actuary at Taylor Fry, on his new Dialogue thought leadership paper titled ‘People, projections and payments: A look at modern government service delivery’. For each vulnerable individual in society, services spending across wel...
Sep 25, 2018•15 min
Tackling the big issues in the general insurance industry, representing actuaries and motivating a group of volunteers has been the remit of IAG’s Chief Actuary Tim Clark for the last five years. After five years as the Convenor of the Institute’s General Insurance Practice Committee (GIPC), Tim Clark has stepped down due to work commitments. In this podcast, Tim speaks with GIPC member Kitty Ho about memorable moments over the last five years, including debates over general insurance cover of m...
Sep 23, 2018•14 min
Estelle Pearson and Tony Coleman share their unique insights into the HIH Royal Commission, from watching lawyers "excitedly finding smoking guns in emails" to getting "requests for interviews from 4-Corners within 24 hrs". They reflect on lessons learned, as the current Financial Services Royal Commission enters its sixth set of public hearings. Tony was President of the Institute when HIH collapsed, in what was the largest corporate collapse in Australia's history, in March 2001. The events th...
Sep 07, 2018•27 min
With companies starting to pay the price for inadvertent unethical outcomes created by their systems and engineering, there is a need for data scientists, actuaries and professionals to respect the discipline of ethics. "Artificial Intelligence" (AI) conjures fear, excitement and confusion in humans. In this podcast episode, Tiberio Caetano, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist at Ambiata, one of the most respected data science companies in Australia, clears up some of the confusion by unpacking the c...
Sep 04, 2018•23 min
Transactions Actuary at Swiss Re, Eric Tsui, discusses the challenges he encountered when taking parental leave, and the support he received from his employer to do so. This instalment of the Institute’s Diversity and Inclusion at work series discusses the topic of parental leave with an interview between Ashish Ahluwalia (Principal at Finity Consulting) and Eric Tsui. The pair discuss how employers who are: 1. committed to diversity and inclusion in its broadest sense; and 2. allow their employ...
Sep 03, 2018•17 min
As the Australian Government Actuary (AGA) nears 100 years of service, Elayne Grace caught up with its current leader, Guy Thorburn, to find out what the agency of the Treasury does and has achieved. Australian Government Actuary and Macquarie University graduate Guy Thorburn joined Elayne Grace (CEO of the Actuaries Institute) on Tuesday 14 August 2018 on the Actuaries Institute Podcast. The pair discussed how the AGA, with its team of 12, operate in providing services to more than 40 Governmen...
Aug 27, 2018•25 min
This instalment of the Institute's Diversity and Inclusion series asks the Chief Actuary at MLC Insurance, Darren Robinson, about his experience managing employees with flexible work (remote location and part time) arrangements. Darren discusses the value of an 'agile coach' in supporting part-time staff and how productivity, retention and morale can be affected by flexible working. Ashish Ahluwalia (Principal at Finity Consulting) discusses with Darren, the increasing take-up of flexible work a...
Aug 14, 2018•16 min
Public Policy Advisor John McLenaghan, asks Michael Rice, CEO of Rice Warner and 2017 Actuary of the Year about the story of his career. From early beginnings in South Africa, Michael decided to switch from accounting to actuarial after a conversation with a golfing friend. His first practice area was Pensions - a sphere that he has now had significant influence on through his public policy work. Michael is a well known actuary in the profession, the Australian government, media and the broader ...
Jul 18, 2018•18 min
In this instalment of the CareerView Podcast, Jas Singh and Mariella El-Azzi discuss how to create satisfaction in actuarial roles to build a fulfilling career including advice on negotiating conflict, forming relationships with team members and choosing the right role. Jas Singh (Managing Director at SKL Actuarial) and Mariella El-Azzi (Pricing Analyst at IAL Insurance) discuss how actuaries can advance their career through identifying key areas to help build fulfilment and satisfaction in role...
Jul 05, 2018•10 min
Ashish Ahluwalia (Principal at Finity Consulting) and Lesley Traverso (Director at Talent Insights) discuss the Institutes' Diversity and Inclusion Working Group (DIWG) and how diversity and inclusion is crucial for innovation in the workplace and how businesses can create a strategy that includes diversity as a key focus. Ashish Ashulwalia and Lesley Traverso discuss the three main areas that council have put forward into the Diversity and Inclusion action plan as part of the working group's st...
Jun 04, 2018•17 min
