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First Actuarial announce four new Associate Partners

First Actuarial has promoted four of the firm’s leading professionals to its layer of Associate Partners. The role of Associate Partner was created in 2024, originally for 14 colleagues, to recognise exceptional talent and foster retention amid ongoing business growth. The four new Associate Partners work in some of the firm’s key growth areas.
Posted on Tuesday Jul 29

Relief for Bank of England but stress for everyone else

Job vacancies fell by 56,000 to 727,000 in April-June. It was the 36th successive quarter of falls, and vacancies are now 68,000 below their pre-pandemic level. The unemployment rate was 4.7% in March-May - up over the quarter and the year, and above pre-pandemic rates. Before inflation, wages in March-May were up 5% in a year – both excluding bonuses and including them. After CPI inflation, wages rose 1.8% in a year excluding bonuses and 1.7% including them. The employment rate was 75.2% - up over the year and the quarter. It’s still below pre-pandemic rates. The economic inactivity rate was 21% - down over the quarter and the year. It’s still above pre-pandemic rates.
Posted on Thursday Jul 17

Paul Sweeting becomes IFoA President

The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) is delighted to announce that Paul Sweeting has begun his presidential term, taking over from Kartina Tahir Thomson.
Posted on Friday Jul 11

Broadstone appoints Rob Kerry as Actuarial Director

Broadstone, a leading independent UK consultancy delivering expert advice to employers, insurers, pension scheme trustees and lenders, today announces the appointment of Rob Kerry as Actuarial Director.
Posted on Thursday Jul 10

WTW appoints experienced actuary Gary Finkelstein

WTW has announced the appointment of Gary Finkelstein as Senior Director to its Insurance Consulting and Technology (ICT) business. Based in London, he will help to further expand WTW’s market-leading transaction, complex structuring, and advisory business to (re)insurers and private equity players increasingly active in the sector.
Posted on Tuesday Jul 8

Serious bullying and harassment now qualify as misconduct

Serious bullying and harassment in financial firms qualify as misconduct, under rules confirmed by the FCA. Previously, it was often unclear when these types of behaviours would amount to a conduct rules breach in a firm other than a bank.
Posted on Wednesday Jul 2

Aon announces nine new partners in Wealth Solutions business

Aon has announced nine new UK-based partners in Wealth Solutions within the firm’s Human Capital capability.

Posted on Monday Jun 23

Barnett Waddingham appoint Principal Risk Transfer Actuary

Barnett Waddingham (BW), has strengthened its bulk annuities team with the appointment of Oliver Ward as Principal and Risk Transfer Actuary.
Posted on Tuesday Jun 17

Dalriada appoints Barbara Fewkes as Head of Sole Trusteeship

Dalriada Trustees Limited ("Dalriada"), one of the UK's leading independent professional pension trustee firms, is pleased to announce the appointments of Barbara Fewkes to Head of Sole Trusteeship and Gill Howard to Operational Lead for the Pensions Management Team.
Posted on Tuesday Jun 10

LCP appoint Senior Consultant to Pension Risk Transfer team

Katie North-Walker has joined LCP’s Pension Risk Transfer practice as a member experience specialist to spearhead the team’s market-leading work on keeping members engaged and supported throughout the bulk annuity process.
Posted on Wednesday Jun 4

Barnett Waddingham announce five new partners

Barnett Waddingham (BW) has appointed five new partners to drive its ongoing business growth and expansion across key markets. They also announces eight principal and 27 associate promotions, made across the entirety of BW’s diverse service offering of risk, pensions, investment and insurance.
Posted on Monday Jun 2

Quantum Advisory appoints new Senior Consultant and Actuary

Quantum Advisory have announced the appointment of Karyn Cooke as Senior Consultant and Actuary.
Posted on Monday Jun 2

Saudi Arabia insurance regulator looks to Bayes expertise

Bayes Business School (part of City St Georges University of London) will provide post-graduate education to the next generation of leaders in Saudi Arabia’s insurance regulator.
Posted on Wednesday May 28

Mark Newman from Canopius joins LMA board

Posted on Tuesday May 13

Patrick Tiernan appointed as Lloyds CEO

Lloyd’s, the world’s leading marketplace for insurance and reinsurance, has today announced that Patrick Tiernan has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) by the Council of Lloyd’s.

Posted on Thursday May 8

Bill Pedersen joins Broadstone as Non Executive Director

Board appointment adds significant expertise in the strategically important insurance actuarial consultancy market. Bill’s career spanned over 35 years at Milliman including 20 years as CFO. Follows strategic growth investment made by Lovell Minnick Partners announced at the start of 2025 to accelerate Broadstone’s growth
Posted on Wednesday May 7

Hymans Robertson appoint new Head of Corporate DB

Hymans Robertson has appointed Sachin Patel as Head of Corporate DB. In this role, Sachin will lead the team to support corporate clients as they navigate the vast array of complex issues and decisions they face for their defined benefit (DB) pension schemes.
Posted on Wednesday Apr 30

XPS Group appoints 5 new partners and promotes 135 colleague

XPS Group has promoted 135 people including five new partners. The promotions have been made across all 15 XPS locations in the UK.
Posted on Wednesday Apr 30

Pacific Life Re announce two senior appointments

Pacific Life Re announce two new appointments to our expanding Savings and Retirement line of business in the UK.
Posted on Wednesday Apr 23

Nikhil Rathi reappointed as FCA Chief Executive

HM Treasury has today announced the reappointment of Nikhil Rathi as Chief Executive of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) for a second term.
Posted on Thursday Apr 10

Paul Macro joins The Aon MasterTrust board

Aon has announced that Paul Macro is joining the board of The Aon MasterTrust. He replaces Jonathan Reynolds who is stepping down from the board after six years.
Posted on Thursday Apr 10

Just Group appoints new Managing Director of retail

Just Group plc (“Just”), the FTSE 250 retirement specialist, has appointed Tom Evans as the Managing Director of its Retail business, effective from 1st July 2025.
Posted on Friday Mar 28

Hymans Robertson appoint Head of Alternative Risk Transfer

Hymans Robertson has appointed Richard Wellard as Head of Alternative Risk Transfer Solutions. In this role, Richard will lead the team to support Trustees and sponsors that are considering newer risk transfer options including, Superfunds, capital backed solutions and alternative insurance products, which have undergone transformational change in recent years.
Posted on Wednesday Mar 26

Hymans Robertson appoint 4 Equity members and 12 Partners

Hymans Robertson, the leading pensions and financial services consultancy, has announced the appointments of four new Equity Members and 12 new Partners. Gemma Sefton, Sally Haran, Ross Fleming and Susan McIlvogue have been promoted to equity members at the firm.
Posted on Tuesday Mar 25

Thousands of firms yet to report their Gender Pay Gaps

With just one month to go, nearly 9,000 companies still need to submit their Gender Pay Gap (GPG) reports before the 4 April deadline. Analysis shows while the proportion of late reporters has steadily decreased in recent years, one in ten companies still missed last year’s deadline, with a third filing more than 30 days after the cut-off. Isio is urging businesses to submit their reports on time and take action to address pay disparities, rather than treating Gender Pay Gap reporting as a tick-box exercise.

Posted on Tuesday Mar 4