Argonauts Club

Club officers and membership administration

Chairman: Geraldine Kaye

Tel: 020 7397 6200

E-mail: gdkaye@gaaps.co.uk

Honorary Secretary: Heath Mottram

Tel: 07725 200 814

E-mail:  heath.mottram@royalmail.com

Membership

Membership of the Argonauts Club is open to qualified actuaries (Fellows or Associates) practising in non-traditional areas (i.e. areas other than traditional life actuarial or pension actuarial work), such as finance, general insurance, investment management, pension scheme administration and risk management.

Meetings

The club meets for dinner in London three times a year, usually in October or November, February, and April or May. At each dinner, two speakers are invited, one from the actuarial profession and another who is not an actuary. Speeches are normally followed by a question-and-answer session. Members may invite guests to dinners.

• Next Dinners- Thursday 23 February 2012; and Thursday 17 May 2012
  

Applications

Actuaries that are interested to join should, in the first instance, seek to attend a Club dinner as a guest of an existing member. Then, they should seek to be nominated by one and seconded by another existing member. A list of members is available from the Honorary Secretary's Assistant (see above for contact details). Once nominated and seconded, membership applications will be considered at the next meeting of the Club (which the applicant should not attend).

Membership subscriptions

The Club year runs from 1 July to 30 June. At the end of each year, subscriptions are reviewed and rates are notified to members towards the end of the summer. For the 2011-2012 year, subscription rates are £75 for active members and £40 for retired members. From time to time, due to an overseas posting for example, members may be unable to attend any dinners in a Club year; in these circumstances membership may be suspended without payment of subscriptions.

Dining fees

For the 2011-2012 year, dining fees are £90, both for members and guests, save that guests who are eligible and interested in joining, may attend one dinner at the special rate of £45.  Where members have to cancel attendance of a dinner, dining fees will not be payable provided that they have given notice of not less than one week in advance of the dinner.