Ross Stevenson Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Pricing Actuary with role of Pricing lead on Longevity business.Involvement in all Longevity pricing work at Munich Re UK Life Branch.Responsible for coordinating with client managers to manage the pricing required to participate in reinsurance quotes for insurer buy-ins/buy-outs and for Longevity swaps.Involved in setting bespoke assumptions appropriate for the portfolio being reinsured or for the peer review of those assumptions. Required to present the assumptions to senior management for their scrutiny and sign-off. Input on commercial decisions surrounding setting the final client fee after consideration of risk based metrics. Assist with the formal internal sign off process for deals progressing to completion, including preparing papers for review by local and global risk management function and responding to their questions; and input into final deal submission papers.Responsible for reconciliation to client models during deal completion process, review of proposed collateral methodology and review of actuarial components of final contracts. Monitoring of quote feedback to understand our competitive position. Review and consideration of our Longevity pricing basis to ensure it remains best estimate and in line with latest data. Other responsibilities for Inforce Longevity deals include validation of updated treaty data following initial data cleanse, re-setting assumptions where required after a Mortality Basis Review is requested and monitoring Inforce deal performance.Performed thorough review of Longevity Pricing Process and implementing improvements to produce efficiency gains, improve accuracy and improve offering to clients.

London, United Kingdom

Team leader for the Experience Analysis function of the Inforce Management and Biometrics team.Responsible for all types of actuarial Experience Analysis in Munich Re UK Life Branch, both on new business opportunities and on Inforce business across all business lines.Role involved management of a team of 3 actuarial students to ensure the timely delivery of results to internal and external deadlines, peer review of actuarial work and providing valuable analysis of the results.Outputs from the team were used in new business pricing, treaty management and repricing on inforce treaties and in setting valuation assumptions. Wider responsibilities included participation in internal efficiency improvement projects focused on streamlining the use and processing of internal data.

London, United Kingdom

I worked in the Actuarial Risk Management for the UK Life and Asia, South Africa and Australia Life Reinsurance Business for Munich Re.This involved performing risk reviews for specific proposed treaties in Protection, Longevity and Financial Reinsurance, reviewing system and tool processes and calculating the risk capital required to be held by the business.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on the design and development of systematic trading strategies and adapted existing products for new markets.I created and maintained sales presentations on the whole line of products and performed competitor research within the market.