Erica Chan
FSA, FASHK, CERA
Principal & Consulting Actuary
Hong Kong, CN
Erica Chan is a principal and consulting actuary in Milliman’s life insurance consulting practice in Hong Kong. She has 13 years experience in the life insurance industry.
Experience
Erica has worked on numerous important merger and acquisitions, EV methodology reviews and enhancements, actuarial modelling (embedded values, Solvency II/ RBC, US GAAP) , business planning, pricing and capital management projects in most of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region, especially Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam.
- Playing a leading role or acting as a core member/project manager on various M&A and IPO projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Tasks include:
- Constructing actuarial models required in various appraisal valuations
- Conducting comprehensive Prophet model reviews
- Providing market benchmarking support, including new business margin / assumptions benchmarking, providing expense assumptions benchmarking, and assessing product trends
- Performing regular embedded value and value of new business reviews for insurance companies in Hong Kong and Thailand
- Providing support to companies in Thailand relating to enhancing embedded value methodologies and capital management
- Performing purchase GAAP reviews for insurance companies in Hong Kong, Indonesia, and Thailand
- Carrying out business planning for potential joint venture/ bancassurance agreement opportunities in several markets, including Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam
- Assisting a multinational company to build an ALM model to conduct SAA studies and capital projections under various capital regimes
- Comparing the cost of capital across various capital regimes and internal economic capital requirements for Asia companies
- Performing appointed actuary tasks for various Hong Kong and Macau companies
- Performing ORSA reviews for a Hong Kong company
- Assisting as a secondment for numerous companies in various roles, including:
- Working with a Belgium company’s IFRS 17 implementation team
- Working with an ERM team of a large multinational company in The Netherlands on Solvency II ratio sensitivities analyses, preparing the risk section in the company's Annual Report, and assisting on EIOPA stress testing projects
- Implementing and enhancing actuarial models for the purpose of Solvency II reporting, performing new product SOE analyses, model efficiency improvements, and model standardisations for companies
Publications and Presentations
- Participating business in Asia joint regional conference held in Thailand, July 2023.
- SOA Climate risk management webinar, SOA Asia-Pacific, July 2022.
- Participating business trends on selling participating products, participating fund managements and regulation in Asia markets. Society of Actuaries’ Thailand conference, November 2020.
- Comparative analysis of Asia’s life insurance capital regimes and implications. Joint regional conference held in Thailand and Vietnam, July and August 2019.
Professional Designations
- Fellow of the Society of Actuaries
- Fellow of the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong
- Chartered Enterprise Risk Analyst
Education
- Bachelor of Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Publications
Read their latest work
Article
Rising medical costs in Asia: Challenges and strategies for insurers
19 December 2024 - by Clement Bonnet, Farzana Ismail, Wen Yee Lee, Erica Chan, Pingni Eng, Shir Lynn Ong, Junaidi Amin, Joshua Ho
We surveyed life and health insurers across Asia to understand the impact of high medical inflation across the region.
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Bank Negara Malaysia 2024 Climate Risk Stress Testing exercise: Key considerations for insurers
14 May 2024 - by Farzana Ismail, Ken Lim, Erica Chan, Richard Payne
We discuss key considerations for Malaysian insurers in the wake of BNM's recent guidance on climate risk stress testing.
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「Milliman 研究報告 – 亞洲地區分紅保險業務」發佈
23 January 2024 - by Alex Bryant, Erica Chan, Scott Chow, Pingni Eng, Pushpika Seneviratne, Takanori Hoshino, Richard Holloway, Farzana Ismail, Junaidi Amin, Philip Jackson, Clement Bonnet, Linda Jin
在許多亞洲市場,分紅(participating)保險商品在人壽保險業務中占有很大比例,同時有諸多原因使得不同市場的分紅商品對其整體業務貢獻程度有所不同。
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Participating business in Asia 2023
23 January 2024 - by Alex Bryant, Erica Chan, Scott Chow, Pingni Eng, Pushpika Seneviratne, Takanori Hoshino, Richard Holloway, Farzana Ismail, Junaidi Amin, Philip Jackson, Clement Bonnet, Linda Jin
We detail the business for participating life insurance products across Asia, including eight major markets from a survey we conducted in 2Q 2023.
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Loss absorbency in risk-based capital frameworks
30 March 2023 - by Alex Bryant, Erica Chan
Across various markets in Asia, target capital buffers are likely to vary for insurers with significant par blocks of business under the different regimes.
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Climate-related risk: Stress testing requirements in Asia Pacific
27 March 2023 - by Erica Chan, Pingni Eng, Cheng Xin Yap, Shelley Yao, Jin Zhao
Stress testing and scenario analysis are only a part of the climate risk management process, but mark a good starting point.
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Climate-related risk: Stress testing requirements in Asia
01 December 2021 - by Pingni Eng, Erica Chan
As COP26 reminds us that climate change will impact the global financial system, insurers should now be thinking about stress testing and risk assessments.
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2015 Asian Actuarial Conference: Milliman Survey
19 November 2015 - by Clement Bonnet, Erica Chan, Michael Daly, Sing Yee Yeoh
A survey on innovation and potential future trends affecting the insurance industry in Asia.