Nigel Knowles Email & Phone Number

Hong Kong

Hong Kong Sar

Doing good for the community. Appointed as a non-executive member of the Industry Advisory Committee for Long Term Business to the Hong Kong Insurance Authority.

Hong Kong Sar

Hong Kong

I am the Chief Financial Officer of one of the largest, most complex businesses in the Prudential PLC franchise. I am lucky to count on the support of a dynamic, skilled team of professional staff covering all aspects of actuarial, finance, investment, strategy and office services. I have the best job in Hong Kong.- We deliver the company's financial results.- We develop strategic priorities, set goals and monitor execution across the organisation.- We monitor and refresh the product suite to ensure it continues to meet our customers' needs.- We manage the assets and liabilities to ensure the continued financial strength of the balance sheet.

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Drawing on over two decades of consulting, insurance and financial markets experience, I am responsible for leading and coordinating financial management across Asia for MetLife. My goal is to manage capital efficiently and generate cash flow for the enterprise. My capital management role is concerned with setting targets, monitoring performance and taking action to stay on track: - set targets to meet local and enterprise risk appetites and to ensure an appropriate level of financial strength;- monitor performance against targets to ensure capital is generated to in line with our expectations; and- take actions to manage capital include ensuring products are priced adequately for the capital used and to take risk management actions or other measures as necessary. For risk management, I'm the first line of defense and have a key design and approve role in hedging and ALM activities as well as reinsurance.Reinsurance oversight is concerned with all aspects of reinsurance:- ensure compliance with group policies;- manage the relationships with professional reinsurance counterparties in the region; - perform oversight of use of reinsurance in product pricing to ensure that the right amount of reinsurance is used to help meet profit target and capital target; and- support any complex structuring of reinsurance. Business development activity takes the form of leading the financial analysis of corporate transactions (mergers and acquisitions). I also perform ad-hoc analysis and provide challenge for business units regarding target operating models (distribution models and expense over-run analysis).As an experienced actuary and member of the Asia Finance Leadership team I advise and recommend actions to executive management for the region as well as provide on the ground leadership and insight to business unit professionals.

Hong Kong

Responsible for business development and leading the delivery of professional services to clients throughout Asia Pacific, with a particular focus on multinational clients and insurance operations in Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia and India. One of the firm's most experienced senior actuaries and trusted adviser to clients. Have a strong track record in a range of fields including:- advising on all aspects related to the management of participating business (including governance, bonus policy, product design and pricing);- risk management (with a particular focus on financial risks);- capital planning and management (including business planning and the use of financial reinsurance and derivatives to manage capital); - mergers and acquisitions (advising on transactions in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, and India);- external (independent) peer review;- market consistent valuations (MCEV and Solvency II); and- financial reporting (including IFRS 4 and embedded values).

Hong Kong

Practice leader for Watson Wyatt's Hong Kong office and Regional Head of Risk Management for Watson Wyatt's Asia Pacific businessResponsible for building a risk management and technical practice as well as leading the Hong Kong office. Assignments included areas as diverse as the review of the MCEV results of a top five Indian insurance company; the analysis of swap overlays for a Singapore insurance client; jump risk modelling of CPPI products; mergers and acquisitions support; and MCEV product pricing for participating business.

London, United Kingdom

Co-lead of the Insurance Solutions Group within Global Markets. Responsible for marketing and the design of risk and capital management solutions to insurance companies, occupational pension scheme trustees and banks. Innovative use of derivatives and special purpose vehicles to create capital efficiency and efficient risk transfer with a particular focus on managing adverse accounting impacts (IAS39 and IAS19) and managing taxation outcomes.Practical experience in the use of interest rate, inflation and credit derivatives, longevity swaps and securitisation/collateralisation structures.

London, United Kingdom

Structurer and marketer of derivative based solutions to major financial institutions. Specialised in derivatives covering interest rates, credit and inflation. Developed solutions covering a wide range of client demands including hedging/risk management, tax management and regulatory capital management.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Long and rewarding career with a leading UK life assurance company. Experience in a wide range of actuarial roles in UK and internationally including senior leadership roles in risk management, market consistent reporting and stochastic model development as well as mergers and acquisitions.