Bas Van Boesschoten Email & Phone Number

Arnhem

Actuarial Function (holder), Financial Risk Manager, i.e. leading the second line’s advise, challenge and judgement wrt market risk, counter party risk, liquidity risk, model risk and data riskand head of Model Validation.Responsibilities include review of, policy setting for and guidance on- technical provisions- solvency capital requirement for NSLT Health Insurance Risk, market risk, counterparty risk, operational risk - risk appetite / risk budget- ALM- ORSA- underwriting / product changes- pricing- model development and model change- model validation- data quality- control framework wrt insurance risk, market risk, counterparty risk, liquidity risk, model risk, data risk

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

I have worked with clients on international (compensation and) benefits issues like multinational pooling, insurance/provider optimization, (benefits) governance issues, benefit inventories and audits, accounting consolidation (IFRS, USGAAP), derisking and pension funding strategies and have many years' experience in the field of defined benefit finance and risk consulting. I have in depth experience in managing cross border M&A projects.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

I am experienced in consulting on: - pension risk & finance issues;- derisking of pension plans including setting up a framework for dynamic hedging of interest and inflation risk;- (funding) policy frameworks for Dutch pensionfunds including Asset Liability Management studies, and (il)liquidity budgets;- pension plan redesign, including benchmarking;- corporate pension governance;- pension accounting (IAS19 / ASC715);- governance of pensionfunds;- benchmarking of pension plans;- Collective Defined Contribution (CDC) plans;- The NL financial assement framework for pension funds (FTK);- liquidation (termination) of pension funds;- pension plan buyouts;- providing training on pension(fund) issues;- Collective Labour Agreement (CLA) negotiations- M&A, pension and employee benefit risk due diligence.Other activities at Mercer Netherlands included:- leading a joint Mercer and Oliver Wyman project team (content and process) in 2015 tasked with providing a second opinion on the solvency of a major NL financial institution;- certifying actuary for a number of NL company and industry wide pension funds since 2003. Focus on adequacy of technical provisions, contributions and assessment of adherence to prudent person rule;- managing several (other) business units of the Mercer NL Retirement, Risk & Finance line of business ;- leading the DB Risk (Defined Benefit Risk) activities for Mercer NL.

Netherlands

I have contributed a series of columns to PBM magazine regarding international issues from a Dutch perspective and with a Dutch flavour.

Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary (Cera)

Master, Actuarial Science

Vwo, Dutch, English, German, Mathematics, Economics, Physics, Chemistry