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Vivienne Maclure FIA

Partner, Insurance & Longevity Consulting

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Viv is a Partner within our Insurance & Longevity Consulting team, assisting clients in understanding longevity, mortality and morbidity risks.

Viv currently acts as Secretary for the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI) and has worked extensively with several CMI Committees.

Viv’s involvement with the CMI began when she started working at Barnett Waddingham in 2002, pausing for a number of years, from 2012, whilst she gained wider experience working alongside life insurers before returning to her specialism in longevity.

Viv’s has experience working with life insurers, which has equipped her with background and insight to better assist insurers in understanding their longevity, mortality and morbidity risks from a regulatory and more general risk management perspective.

Significant experience:

  • Supporting the CMI Executive and Management Committees and CMI Directors in overseeing the operation and management of the CMI.
  • Preparation of CMI Working Papers covering regular analysis updates of mortality and morbidity experience and more detailed analyses, such as mortality improvements, mortality experience by industry class and graduations.
  • Project management of the production of the graduations of SAPS ‘S1’ and ‘S2’ series mortality tables and Income Protection ‘IPM 1991-98’ sickness inceptions and drafting the associated collection of working papers.
  • Performing analyses and calculations required by UK insurers to meet regulatory requirements and peer reviewing the Actuarial Function, including internal and external audit support.
  • Reviewing insurers’ governance and risk management systems.

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Career

Viv graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Management from UMIST in 2001. She joined BW in 2002 and qualified as a Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in 2008. She became a Partner at Barnett Waddingham in 2024. 

Viv’s career focused on CMI-related work when she first joined the team. She moved across to the Insurance Consulting Practice in 2012, gaining wider experience of the insurance market and exposure to the regulatory requirements, risks and challenges faced by the market before resuming her focus on longevity analysis.

Interests

Outside of work Viv enjoys keeping fit and trying new activities. She enjoys running and has done a number of half marathons. In 2019, she completed her first (sprint) triathlon and has continued to train in running, open water swimming and cycling. The next activity on the list is stand-up paddle boarding. Viv is keen to be outdoors and loves to go camping with her family, recently hiring a VW campervan and touring round Cornwall and Devon, visiting as many beaches as possible on the way.