Professional Skills Course 2015 Organized by Actuarial Society of Malaysia DETAILS Date : 23rd June 2015 Venue : Connexion @ Nexus, Bangsar South Price : ASM members RM 200 Non-ASM members RM 250 OVERVIEW This Professional Skills Course, while based largely on the course conducted by the UK Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA), will still be highly relevant and useful for actuaries at large. The course will contain general discussions on professional conduct of actuaries as well as some short videos followed by group discussions, touching on various situations we may commonly face as actuaries. ASM recognises 2 hours for Professionalism from this course. For IFoA members, this should be able to count towards the 2 Professionalism CPD hours requirements. For members of other international bodies, you may record this as Professionalism hours according to your respective CPD schemes. SPEAKER Mark Birch, BSc FIA, FSAS, FASM Director of Towers Watson's Risk Consulting and Software Practice for SEA PROGRAMME 2.00 pm – 2.30 pm Registration 2.30 pm – 3.40 pm Professional Skills Course (Part 1) 3.40 pm – 4.00 pm Tea Break 4.00 pm – 5.30 pm Professional Skills Course (Part 2) CPD HOURS 2 hours (Professionalism Hours) REGISTRATION Registration link: http://actuaries.org.my/event-sign-up-professional-skills-course-2015/ Registration Deadline: 15th June 2015 Mark Birch, BSc FIA, FSAS, FASM Director, Risk Consulting and Software, South East Asia Profile Mark is Director of Towers Watson’s Risk Consulting and Software Practice for South East Asia, based in Singapore. He also is the Company’s Asia Pacific Leader for its ‘Professional Excellence’ program. This is one of Towers Watson’s five core values and the name for the full range of the Company’s quality efforts, including its Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. The key goal of Professional Excellence is to ensure that all employees produce excellent work whilst maintaining personal and professional integrity. Mark qualified as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 1988 and has had a broad-ranging career working in both consulting and corporate financial services roles. His early career was spent at a number of blue chip UK financial services companies where he held a number of actuarial, marketing and broader management roles. These included experience at the financial services arm of one of the UK’s leading retail organisations where he established a strategy for the successful marketing of life, general and investment products in-store and through the company’s customer database. He moved to Singapore twelve years ago, where he switched from corporate roles to consulting. He joined Towers Watson in 2007, following periods working for another actuarial consultancy and managing his own firm. Mark therefore has been actively involved in many aspects of a life insurance operation both from within the company as an employee and with the external perspective of a consultant. Mark currently holds a number of Appointed Actuary positions in Singapore and in Sri Lanka. He also has led actuarial valuation, product development and due diligence activities for several M&A transactions across the region.