Eight week internship split between the Actuarial Consulting and Investment Consulting teams Predominantly worked with Defined Benefit pension schemes Examples of work include calculating transfervalues and drafting Investment Monitoring Reports
Research projects into corporate board management attending corporate and pension board meetings and training in pension board services
Client tasks
Excel Spreadsheet R programming and building new tools
Completing client work set by junior members of the team in various business areas attending training sessions to learn about concepts within investmentactuarial work and completing student exercises set such as presentations or letter writing exercise
Day to day role was to research into the diversification of governance services that the business can venture into This includes surfing the internet reading reports having meetings all to gain market information I then undertook 3 presentations expla
Taking on work surrounding clients in for employees BW Investment and Actuarial roles This involved initial training into BW systems and excel then progressed onto doing client work This mainly involved the use of excel and research skills
Working in both the investment and actuarial teams helping with reports and valuations
The role varies day to day as you get involved in different areas of the business such as investment consulting where you produce investment monitoring reports statement of investment principles implementation statements also Actuarial consulting where
I have undertaken a mix of typical actuarial consultancy and investment consultancy tasks This includes calculating transfer values producing investment monitoring reports drafting scheme funding reports and researching funds There is a mix of short t
From day one we get involved in client work calculating transfer values writing investment monitoring reports etc
I spend time working on projects for the Investment and Actuarial Consulting teams This includes various meetings and all different types of work on clients for both I also will watch training videos to help me get to grips with the work I039m doing
As an intern I took on various tasks from the different departments This involved collating data populating spreadsheets generating reports and more creative work like improving slides or charts It also included staying up to date with financial and
Reporting to actuarial consulting and investment consulting areas This involved producing various reports calculations drafting emails and taking part in meetings
ACConducting actuarial processes for DB pension schemes IC Monitoring and reviewing the assets invested by various schemes
Administering pensions by ensuring member details are up to date and checking calculations updating systems when members come to take retirement Also communicating directly with members to answer various questions about their pensions
The daytoday varies massively depending on which particular team needs things done Generally things are done on a series of Excel sheets but sometimes goes beyond this to include some research and presentations Some of my highlights in terms of tasks
Summer internship role in the ILD division of Barnett Waddingham On a daytoday basis we are assisting with actuarial modelling carrying out data processing to investigate mortality experience and being given handson training on how to programme in R
Aiding the management of hundreds of pension schemes some with tens of thousands of members Handling financial data and personal information
I do work assigned to me by members of the insurance team often changing excel spreadsheets Also includes attending team meetings
