Tue 21 Apr 2026 -
09:30 - 10:30 (BST)This session presents a practical framework to help general insurance actuaries evaluate career decisions across roles, countries, and levels of seniority.
Drawing on more than 20 years of actuarial recruitment experience and hundreds of interviews, the talk:
- Introduces the ‘career trilemma’ – the trade-off between professional satisfaction, work-life balance and compensation.
- Shows how actuaries can use this 3-pillar model to assess promotions, external job offers, and long-term career direction.
- Incorporates benchmarking insights on tenure, working-from-home patterns, and compensation trends across UK and European markets, as presented in previous versions of this talk to the 2025 Society of Actuaries in Ireland Convention and the 2025 Casualty Actuaries in Europe Spring Meeting.
Key takeaways:
- A structured approach to evaluating actuarial career decisions.
- Evidence-based benchmarking of UK general insurance market trends.
- Practical scenarios illustrating common career dilemmas for actuaries.
Target audience: All general insurance actuaries (students to senior leaders). No prior knowledge required. In many ways, a webinar is the perfect setting for this kind of event.
Speaker
Michael Stefan, Hannover Re
