The London Market Actuaries' Group (LMAG) consists of around 1000 qualified actuaries working in the Lloyd’s and London Market. Membership is open to qualified actuaries working within the London Market, and a large proportion of the qualified actuaries working in the London Market are members of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA). Members are involved in the full range of actuarial work within the market.
Monthly meetings have a mix of actuarial and guest speakers. Attendance varies from 150-250.
Cian Creedon, Chair
Cian leads the Reinsurance Pricing team at MS Amlin. Prior to this, he worked in a variety of roles in broking, primary insurance, reinsurance, and consulting which have afforded him a broad spectrum of experience across pricing, capital modelling, legacy M&A and reserving.
Cian has been volunteering with LMAG since 2018 and is also active in the Worshipful Company of Actuaries. Earlier in his career, Cian chaired the London Market Students’ Group – which could be thought of as the younger sibling to LMAG.
Although he is aware that people rarely read these bios, Cian is always flattered when people buy him whisky – Islay malts, for preference, in this uncertain world.
Natanya Taylor, Treasurer
Natanya is a senior manager in the Actuarial team at BDO UK. She has over 9 years of industry experience across both Personal Lines and Commercial insurance. Her specialties include finance transformations, capital reporting, pricing and underwriting, and enterprise risk management.
More recently Natanya has been involved in the delivery of the ORSA (Own Risk and Solvency Assessment) process, leading Actuarial Function assignments and leveraging machine learning to improve pricing and underwriting and grow footprint.
Natanya regularly chairs industry events and is also a member of the IFRS 17 working party for General Insurers.
Laura Hobern, Committee Member
Laura is a Partner in LCP's Insurance Consulting practice where she advises clients on a range of actuarial matters. Having worked directly for (re)insurers previously, she has broad experience covering reserving, pricing, product development, mergers and acquisitions due diligence, profitability and portfolio analysis, reinsurance optimisation, management reporting, and IFRS 17 implementation. She is also active in research and development work on topics such as cyber risk.
Laura is a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries and has been volunteering with the IFoA for over ten years.
Simon Ashton, Committee Member
Simon is a manager at EY in their Non-Life Actuarial team. Prior to entering the world of consulting, Simon spent 9 years working in the Lloyd’s / London Market gaining experience across pricing, analytics, reserving, business planning, and capital modelling, with a particular focus on reinsurance business.
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