This week I'm delighted to be joined by Phillip White!Phil is an Actuarial Consultant at Buck (a Gallagher company) and has 14 years of experience in the pensions industry.We explore Phil's journey to date, and discuss setting sights on becoming an actuary in year 9 of school, getting his first job in pensions as an administrator, transitioning across to an actuarial career path, managing people, developing specialisms, and progressing his career without fully qualifying as an Actuary. Phil also shares some valuable advice for aspiring actuaries and those at the earlier stages of their career.I hope you enjoy!Please connect with Phil here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phillip-white-21117b20b/Please feel free to get in touch via https://actuarialpeople.com or info@actuarialpeople.comPlease connect with me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/Mentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

My guest this week is the wonderful Ingrid Chiu!Ingrid is a Lead Consultant at WTW in Reigate, and has 11 years' experience in the pensions sector.We explore Ingrid's career journey to date, discussing her initial 6 week internship, starting full-time on the graduate scheme, her experience with the actuarial exams, and gaining broader experience via secondments & specialist teams.Ingrid also shares her experience of balancing family life with work (and the support she has received from her colleagues) - having had her first of two children just a year after joining as a graduate.I loved speaking with Ingrid and hope you enjoy!Please connect with Ingrid here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ingrid-c-6987a311b/Feel free to contact me via https://actuarialpeople.com or info@actuarialpeople.comConnect with me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/Mentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

This week I'm joined by the wonderful Ji-Hyang Lee!Ji-Hyang is a Senior Consultant & Pensions Actuary at Aon, and has 18 years experience in the industry.We discuss her experience to date, from when she first discovered that Actuaries existed, securing her first role as a graduate, advice on actuarial exam technique, working for consultancies of different shapes and sizes, client relationships, career mentoring, and her work on diversity, equity and inclusion.Please connect with Ji-Hyang here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ji-hyang-lee-71946031/Feel free to contact me via info@actuarialpeople.com, https://actuarialpeople.com or via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/Mentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Kylie Arbon!Kylie is a qualified Pensions Actuary, and Head of Transformation at Broadstone. We discuss how Kylie discovered the actuarial profession, her path to qualification, becoming a client facing consultant, her experience with Coaching & Mentoring, and transitioning from a traditional role to specialising in change management and business improvement. Kylie has worked for the same (growing) business throughout her whole career to date, and it was incredibly interesting to hear how varied and fulfilling it has been.Please connect with Kylie here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylie-arbon-5694ba15/Feel free to contact me via https://actuarialpeople.com or info@actuarialpeople.comMentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

This week I'm joined by the wonderful Alexis Tate! Alexis has worked in the actuarial industry for 20 years, and is currently a GMP Operations Lead for Mercer. She is also a people leader, a mental health first aider and has taken on many different roles over her career.In this episode we discuss her journey to date, including how she first joined the actuarial profession, why she decided not to qualify having passed 14/15 exams, how she navigated her career and made strategic moves internally to gain new experience, her experience with mental health, and reaching a senior level in pensions without being a fully qualified actuary.Please connect with Alexis here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexis-tate-cmgr-mcmi-3a4bb419/Feel free to contact me via https://actuarialpeople.com or info@actuarialpeople.comConnect with me at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/Mentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Ilona Roberts! Ilona is a Pensions Actuary & Senior Manager at EY, and specialises in Pensions Risk Transfer consulting. Ilona shares her journey to date, from her first role in pensions working on the pensions review, her path to becoming a traditional pensions actuary (despite her school teacher advising her not to!), her experience of working for consultancies of different sizes, becoming an actuarial contractor, working for the Bulk Annuity Pricing team of a Life Insurer, and more recently moving from her insurance role back into pensions consulting.Ilona has a wealth of experience in the industry and there's definitely something for everyone this week :)Please connect with Ilona here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ilona-roberts-aa879818/Please feel free to contact me via https://actuarialpeople.com or info@actuarialpeople.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/Mentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

This week on Actuarial People I'm delighted to be joined by Chris Anderson!After a couple of internships in pensions consulting whilst at university, Chris began his actuarial career in life insurance with Standard Life. Today he is a Director and Head of Life Actuarial - Scotland at EY.Chris gives incredible insight into his journey to date as an Actuary. We discuss beginning his career in life insurance, his path to qualification, his experience of career progression in the insurance industry, the variety of work he has had exposure to, the value of finding good mentors, how he developed his specialism in the Bulk Annuities market, his approach to posting on LinkedIn, and his experience of being a people leader.Whether you are an aspiring actuary or have already begun your own journey, I hope you find this conversation useful!Please connect with Chris here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrisanderson88/Please feel free to contact me via:https://actuarialpeople.cominfo@actuarialpeople.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/Mentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Masimba Zata. Masimba is a Director in the Insurance Solutions business at Moody's Analytics. He is also an IFoA Council Member, a member of the Board of Trustees for the IFoA Foundation and a visiting lecturer at Queen Mary University.Masimba shares his story to date, from where he first discovered the actuarial profession, beginning his career as a pensions actuary, transitioning to insurance, moving up into senior positions, and his passion for playing an active role in the development of the profession as a whole.This is a slightly longer episode than usual as he has so many useful insights to share, there really is something for everyone here.Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy the conversation!Please connect with Masimba: https://www.linkedin.com/in/masimbazataConnect with me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/For more info on Actuarial People, visit : https://actuarialpeople.com or email info@actuarialpeople.comMentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

This week I'm delighted to be joined by Suchi Dench. Suchi is a Consultant in the Risk Transfer and Funding & Benefits Teams at Mercer.We get to know Suchi and her 10+ year career journey to date, from when she first discovered the actuarial profession, her experience of working on US and UK pension schemes while working in India, her experience of relocating to the UK in 2020, developing her specialism in Risk Transfer consulting, and how she has reached her level of seniority without taking the actuarial exams until very recently.Please connect with Suchi here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suchidench/And you can connect with me here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/https://actuarialpeople.com Info@actuarialpeople.comMentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website

Welcome to episode three of Actuarial People, where I'm joined by Simon Harris.Simon began his career as a traditional Pensions Actuary, and is now a Associate Director in the Internal Audit Team of an international Investment Manager, where he is responsible for overseeing audits of the workplace investing business.We spend time getting to know Simon and his career journey to date, from when he first discovered that actuaries existed & his experience of working for a traditional consultancy, through to becoming an in-house Senior Pension Risk Manager, and then into the world of Internal Audit.Simon is a great example of how pensions actuaries can apply their skills and experience in a wide variety of settings, and he talks us through how he achieved this. Please connect with Simon here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-harris-36544535/You can contact me at info@actuarialpeople.com or via LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescturner/Mentioned in this episode:Actuarial People is sponsored by my recruitment company Turner Perkins. I specialise in helping pensions actuarial professionals across all experience levels with their career moves. Please visit https://turnerperkins.com or email james.turner@turnerperkins.com to arrange a confidential conversation!TP Website