Michelle Acton

Experience

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  Discovery Health

  Jul 1999 - Jun 2002

  Actuarial Manager

  Worked in the Marketing department and assisted with product development, development of marketing and pricing tools and incentive structures.

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  Fifth Quadrant Actuaries and Consultants

  Jul 2002 - Jan 2003

  Director
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  Medscheme (Mtius) Limited

  Feb 2003 - Sept 2005

  Head of Actuarial,
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  OUTsurance

  Oct 2005 - Nov 2006

  Head of Client Care
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  NBC Holdings (Pty)

  Jan 2007 - Sept 2007

  Divisional Manager of Actuarial and Investment Consulting Services
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  Alexander Forbes

  Oct 2007 - Apr 2012

  Principal Consultant and Senior Actuary

  Consulting to large corporate client base on retirement funding and employee benefit arrangements and providing actuarial and Investment consulting advice to clients. Managed a consulting portfolio of approximately R10 million annually.• Chairperson of the Risk Benefit Committee;• Valuator to a number of defined contribution funds;• Managing and mentoring consulting staff;• Product development;• New business strategies and implementation across the division;• Managing client relationships;• Rolling out realization strategies into large corporate clients. Show less

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  Old Mutual South Africa

  May 2012 - Apr 2020

  Assisted senior management in establishing the new Old Mutual Corporate Consultants division and managing an Employee Benefits consulting team. As a Principal Consultant, I also developed and implemented a new pricing model for new consulting and actuarial clients within the business. My current role includes:• Strategy development for clients; • Preparing presentations and writing articles for publishing in industry and mainstream media; • Consult to a portfolio of large retirement funds, sub-funds and employers around their employee benefits;• Support to the new business team to assist in securing large consulting appointments;• Representing Old Mutual Corporate in the media, conferences and industry events;• Managing a team of consultants;• Member of the Old Mutual Corporate Consultants Exco team. Show less Managed the Old Mutual Actuaries and Consultants (OMAC) division, including; staffing, new business targets, managing budgets and reporting. As the head of Actuaries and Consultants I provided actuarial and investment consulting advice to clients. • Consulting to large corporate client base on retirement funding and employee benefit arrangements;• Senior member of the Old Mutual Corporate management team;• Managing all aspects of the OMAC division including staff responsibilities, budgeting, client management and strategy development.• Valuator to a number of defined contribution funds;• Member of the Old Mutual Corporate Thought Leadership Steercom. Show less

  • Principal Consultant, Old Mutual Corporate Consultants

    Jan 2014 - Apr 2020

  • Head of Actuaries and Consultants, Old Mutual Corporate Consultants

    May 2012 - Dec 2013
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  Old Mutual Limited

  Apr 2020 - Mar 2021

  Principal Consultant - Innovation and Strategy
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  Old Mutual South Africa

  Mar 2021 - now

  I am the Business Owner for Two Pot and responsible for implementing the new Two Pot regulations across the Old Mutual group end to end. Focus on the distribution strategy for Old Mutual Corporate. Also looking at the distribution strategy of the future.

  • Chief Customer Officer: Corporate

    Apr 2024 - now

  • Retirement Reform Executive

    Nov 2022 - now

  • Key Account Manager - Distribution Strategy

    Mar 2021 - Oct 2022