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Matthew Ford

Principal and Consulting Actuary
London, UK

Matthew Ford is a principal in Milliman's London Life Practice.

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Experience

Matthew joined Milliman in 2022, and brings over 30 years of experience working in consulting and corporate roles. In particular, his skills cover capital modelling and management, asset liability management and investment, bulk purchase annuities and with-profits business. At Milliman, he has led engagements, including investment and liquidity matters for bulk annuity writers and carried out an extended secondment directly supporting the Group Chief Actuary of a FTSE 100 insurer. Prior to Milliman, his corporate roles included Commercial Finance Director for Annuities and Legacy Business and Actuarial Director, both within major UK life firms.

Publications

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CP2/24: Solvent exit planning for insurers

17 July 2024 - by Robert Bugg, Christopher Clarke, Matthew Ford, John Jenkins, Chew Hou Ng
We offer some key takeaways for insurers on the Prudential Regulation Authority’s Consultation Paper 2/24.
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Life insurance risk, capital, and asset-liability management in the age of uncertainty

05 July 2024 - by Tony Dardis, Matthew Ford, Andrew Kirk, Bryan Liu, Hanbo Zhang
In an uncertain global economy, capital models and monitoring have recently held up well, with a wider range of performance for ALM and liquidity models.
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Complex bulk purchase annuity deal features

25 June 2024 - by Florin Ginghina, Matthew Ford, Jessica Crowson
With bulk purchase annuity transactions, insurers must carry out thorough due diligence and determine their risk appetite for deals with unusual features.
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2024 Illiquid Asset Survey

20 May 2024 - by Matthew Ford, Florin Ginghina, Russell Ward
We share findings from our 2024 Illiquid Asset Survey, which covers U.K. insurers in the bulk purchase annuity sector as they adapt approaches to solvency reform.
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UK bulk annuity insurers’ 2023 results: Key themes arising

23 April 2024 - by Jessica Crowson, Florin Ginghina, Matthew Ford
We offer some themes and insights from SFCR filings by UK bulk annuity insurers for year-end 2023, such as record premium volumes and careful capital deployment.
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Life insurance risk, capital, and asset-liability management in the age of uncertainty

16 November 2023 - by Tony Dardis, Matthew Ford, Andrew Kirk, Bryan Liu, Hanbo Zhang
In a rapidly changing world, how have life insurers recalibrated their capital management, asset-liability management, and risk-management practices?
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Roundtable: Life insurer investment – looking ahead from winter 2022

02 December 2022 - by Matthew Ford, Russell Ward, Jessica Crowson, Kelly Yang
Experts from a range of UK life firms joined Milliman in early November to exchange views on various themes in investments and asset management, against a challenging economic backdrop.
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Roundtable: Life insurer ALM – Looking ahead from Autumn 2022

09 November 2022 - by Matthew Ford, Russell Ward, Lewis Duffy, Jessica Crowson
We are experiencing a regime change in relation to the behaviour of economic variables such as interest rates and inflation.