Lifestyle Article - Aon appoint actuary Mike Smaje as Partner

 Mike Smaje has over 25 years’ industry experience in both pensions and investment consultancy, and asset management. Previously, Mike worked as an investment specialist for Aberdeen Standard (formerly Standard Life Investments) delivering advice to UK pension scheme trustees, with a particular focus as a liability driven investment (LDI) product specialist on risk management strategies. Prior to this, Mike was director of Investment Services at First Actuarial, where he led the development and delivery of its investment consulting capabilities. He had previously gained almost 20 years’ experience in investment and actuarial consultancy roles at Willis Towers Watson. 

 Mike Smaje has a first class BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from the University of Manchester and has been a qualified actuary since 1999.

 Guy Willard, Aon investment partner and co-head of Clients and Client Development, said: “Aon’s Investment practice relies on a combination of talents and skills from around the financial industry, allowing us to have a broad view across the markets and the economic factors that drive them.

 “Mike Smaje brings extensive experience from many areas of actuarial and investment consulting, from holding scheme actuary appointments to asset liability modeling, risk analysis and manager selection. We welcome Mike to the team and look forward to the value his expertise will bring to our clients.”