Cherry Chan FIA
Cherry advises a range of UK general (re)insurance companies and international captives on actuarial issues including statutory reserve reviews, reinsurance and insurance programme optimisation and Solvency II implementations. She also acts as Actuarial Function to a number of clients.
Cherry’s main areas of expertise are helping clients understand their risk potential, conducting stress and scenario testings and maximising their capital efficiency. She has also utilised new reserving methodologies to help estimating long tail risks like medical malpractice liabilities.
Cherry’s extensive experience, clear advice and proactive approach have helped her to become a trusted consultant to a wide range of clients.
Related expertise
Comment & Insight
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Blog post GIST 2017 - are we all stressed out?
The PRA sent out a letter in April 2017 requesting approximately 25 mostly category 1 & 2 firms (and a small number of category 3 firms) to participate in the General Insurance Stress Test 2017 (GIST 2017).
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Blog post #StrongerTogether - actuaries and data scientists
'Stronger together' is how I see actuaries and data scientists working together in harmony – it is not about Brexit or America’s presidential campaign!
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Blog post Driverless cars - the death of the motor insurance industry?
Cherry Chan examines the potential that driverless technology has to be revolutionary in her latest blog. But to what extent will traditional motor insurance change, and how will regulation need to evolve to meet the new demands?
Career
Cherry graduated from London School of Economics with a degree in Actuarial Science and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2004. Cherry joined Barnett Waddingham in 2009, heading the General Insurance team in London, and was made a partner at Barnett Waddingham in 2013.
Memberships
- Fellow of Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
- Fellow of Society of Actuaries Ireland
- IFoA Working Party on Pragmatics Stochastic Reserving
Interests
Outside of the office Cherry plays tennis when she finds time, is a keen amateur photographer and enjoys baking cakes.