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Dear all,

Have you enjoyed yet another exam season, or you are just glad it’s done and dusted?

Either way, you are invited to CANUK’s after exam dinner where you can let off the steam, share some thoughts, meet new people or just catch up with some old friends!

Dinner will be held at: 中华楼 New China, 48 Gerrard Street, W1D 5QL, London

Time: 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. on Friday 28^th October 2016

Menu: 凉菜：五香牛肉、花生米、三丝海带、排黄瓜、凉拌东北野生木耳(拼盘)。 热菜：烧鸭烧肉拼，清蒸鲈鱼，黑椒牛肉，干煸四季豆，煎酿豆腐，蚂蚁上树，毛血旺，椒丝腐乳通才，水饺，白饭/茶水/水果

Restaurant website:  http://www.new-china.info

Cost: £25 per head including dinner, tea, fruit and service charge. Additional cost for other drinks can be paid on the day.

Please note: the number of places is limited, if you can’t attend after registering, please notify us before midnight 25^th October so we can re-allocate your seat. Otherwise you will still be liable to pay for the cost.

Registration: https://post-exam-dinner-autumn-2016.eventbrite.co.uk

Venue: Riley’s Sports Bar Victoria

Address: 16 Semley Pl, London, Victoria SW1W 9QJ

Date: Friday 26th August 2016

Time: 18:00 – 23:00 Register here: http://canuk-summer-pool-2016.eventbrite.co.uk

We are delighted to invite you to a talk event on fixed income markets held by CANUK and SEFIN (Sino-European Finance Association – www.sefin.org.uk).

At the event, speakers from both sides will deliver presentations on interest rates and fixed income investments from different angles: insurance v.s. banking. You will be able to voice your opinions and ask questions during the panel discussion section following the presentation. There will also be opportunities to network with professionals from the banking industry.

Please note, the presentations and panel discussion will be delivered in Mandarin Chinese.

Event: Two Tales of the Fixed Income Markets

Time and Date: 6:00pm – 8:30pm, Friday, the 24th June.

Venue: DC Advisory, 5 King Williams Street, London, EC4N 7DA

Agenda: 

6:00pm – 6:30pm, Registration

6:30pm – 6:40pm, Opening remark CEO, DC Advisory

6:40pm – 7:00pm, Welcome and introduction

7:00pm – 7:20pm, Presentation by Zhenzhen Jiang, Citigroup, European Government Bond Trader

7:25pm – 7:45pm, Presentation by Fulin Liang, Morgan Stanley, Equity Research Analyst

7:45pm – 8:30pm, Panel Discussion / Q&A / Networking

Registration link: https://sefin-canuk-20160624.eventbrite.co.uk

Please select “CANUK Invitation Only” if not speaker/panelist

If you are unable to attend after you have registered, could you please kindly let us know two days before the event, and if you’d like to join the event without registering, we cannot guarantee a seat for you.

In association with 

Register at: http://eu-referendum-ifoa.eventbrite.co.uk

The UK government has announced a referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Union to be held on Thursday 23 June. This is probably the most important decision the British public has faced in decades! The public debate is already heating up, with many media outlets commenting, and stakeholders taking views publicly.

What impact will this have on the British society, more specifically its insurance industry and the actuarial profession? How should we as actuaries and students cope with these potential impacts and what can we contribute? Are you thinking? Great! CANUK would like to invite you to come and join the discussion with IFoA’s EU Referendum Working Party, this would be a great opportunity to share your thoughts and find out more.

Topic: EU Referendum (IFoA)

Date: Tuesday 3rd May 2016

Place: Redington – Austin Friars House 2-6 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HD, United Kingdom

Schedule:

6:00pm – 6:30pm, Registration

6:30pm – 8:00pm, Presentation and discussion

Register at: http://eu-referendum-ifoa.eventbrite.co.uk

Speaker: Derek Cribb and Tim Werkhoven will lead the discussion.

Derek Cribb

Derek Cribb joined the Actuarial Profession in a consulting role in May 2010. He became Acting Chief Executive in September 2010 and was appointed to the role on a permanent basis in 2011. Derek has successfully steered the organisation through a period of rapid and substantial change, including a full review of its strategy and reshaping the organisational structure to deliver the strategy.

Derek has broad leadership experience across the public, private and not-for-profit sectors. His roles have ranged from Chief Operating Officer at the Pension Protection Fund and CFO of Barclays Bank UK Customers and Products to leading the business support function in a major UK record label. He has also held senior positions in the food, logistics, outsourcing and technology sectors.

Derek is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He studied at Imperial College London, graduating with Honours in Chemistry in 1987, and undertook PhD research in Mechanical Engineering from 1987-1989.

Tim Werkhoven MPA

Tim joined the IFoA in November 2015, to help the EU referendum Working Party and lead the Institute’s activities around the EU referendum.

Tim graduated from Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands) with a Masters in Public Administration. Thereafter he specialised in EU Public Affairs Management, representing a wide variety of sectors and companies (such as Tesco PLC, Royal Mail Group PLC, and British American Tobacco PLC) to the EU institutions and stakeholders. He also lived in China, where he defended the interests of UK and other European companies towards the Chinese Government.

Currently, he is –on the side- studying to obtain a Masters in Business Administration. He lives in London and loves to explore the UK, and also restore – hopefully beautifully! – antique furniture.

Do you shop at Tesco? Did you hear about them falsely overstating their profit by hundreds of millions of pound just to look strong? Or you may hold a bank account with Barclays, but you may not know the quote “if you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying” coming from a Barclay’s trader…

…they say you should never waste a good crisis. Real life examples of corporate scandals and spectacular company failures leave us with valuable lessons and for some, painful cost. It can never go too far to show how business ethics and governance are closely knitted with financial performance!

On Thursday 25 February, we’d like to welcome you to our first technical/networking event of the year – Lessons from Corporate Scandals, the talk will use case studies such as Afren, Olympus, Tesco and Barclays to highlight the importance of ethics, governance and responsibility in today’s business environment.

This event is co-organised by CANUK and TANC at Cass Business School (Bunhill Row London, Greater London EC1Y 8TZ).

Topic: Business Ethics: Lessons from Corporate Scandals.

Delivered by: Ashley Hamilton Claxton from Royal London Asset Management

Ashley Hamilton Claxton oversees Royal London Asset Management’s corporate governance analysis, company engagement and proxy voting. She also conducts environmental and social research and analysis for the banking, construction and property sectors. She writes a regular article for CityWire Wealth Manager on corporate governance and sustainability issues and has been widely quoted in UK national newspapers.

Before joining RLAM, Ashley was a Shareholder Engagement Executive at PIRC where she conducted corporate engagement and analysis for the Local Authority Pension Fund Forum (LAPFF). Prior to that she was a research analyst and corporate engagement consultant for SHARE, a proxy voting and shareholder engagement consultancy based in Vancouver, Canada. She has a Master of Arts degree from the University of British Columbia.

Schedule:

6:00pm – 6:30pm, Registration

6:30pm – 8:00pm, Presentation and Q&A

8:00pm – 9:00pm, Networking

Drinks and snacks will be served, CPD will be available and registration is free!

Please use this link to register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/business-ethics-lessons-from-corporate-scandals-tickets-21203091016

Note: if you are also a member of TANC, once registered here, you don’t need to register again via TANC’s email.

We’re sure you have all had a great start into the new year of 2016, let’s continue the vibe and our tradition for the Chinese New Year, the new year of monkey!

Come and join the CANUK family for an unforgettable night, share the good time with old and new friends over quality food and drink! There is only limited space, so please register early to avoid disappointment!

Date: Friday 19^th Feb 2016

Time: 7:00pm –10:00pm

Venue: Er Mei – Lisle Street London, Greater London WC2H 7BG

Restaurant website: http://www.ermei.co.uk/

Event capacity: 50 people

Cost: £25 per head including dinner, tea, wine and service charge. Additional cost for further drinks to be paid on the day.

Menu: 酸菜豆瓣鸡汤，宫保虾球，水煮牛肉，酸菜魔鸭，京酱肉丝，东坡肘子，金沙豆腐，干煸四季豆，姜汁芥兰，白饭。

Please note, if you cannot attend after registering, please notify us (on wechat, email or in person) before the 15^th Feb on Monday, otherwise you will still need to pay for your place.

Registration: http://canuk-2016-cny-dinner.eventbrite.co.uk

CANUK Anniversary Event 2015

The Chinese Actuarial Network UK (CANUK) is delighted to invite you to celebrate its fourth anniversary at Staple Inn after another successful year. 

 Admission is free for all CANUK members and honoured guests and is on a first-come first-served basis. 

 Special thanks to the Institute and Faculty of Actuary for providing the venue for this event and our sponsor Mansion House.

Organiser:

CANUK Committee    

Location:

Staple Inn Hall

High Holborn

LONDON WC1V 7QJ

See map: Google Maps

Registration: https://canuk-dec-2015-annual-event.eventbrite.co.uk

Join CANUK for the Risk Outlook Roadshow on Thursday 5^th November

This is your chance to make a difference.

The IFoA’s Regulation Board is identifying risks to the public interest which arise out of actuarial activity to inform the IFoA’s  Regulatory strategy for the next few years.

We invite you to come along and participate in this key element of the regulatory strategy and to learn more about this exciting new project.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30pm Registration

6:30 – 7:30pm Risk Outlook Talk

7:30 – 8:30pm Networking

CPD: 1 hour

This event is kindly sponsored by our exclusive sponsor Mansion House.

Registration

Please register for this event online at :

http://ifoa-risk-outlook-roadshow-canuk2015.eventbrite.co.uk

About Speakers

Christine McConnell has been of  Head of Regulatory Compliance at the IFoA  for 6 years.  She is a solicitor in the Regulation team in Edinburgh and works closely with both the Regulation and Disciplinary  Boards.  

Philip Doggart, FFA  has worked  within the IFoA Policy team since October 2012.  His main responsibilities are looking at the implications of the ageing population and regulatory policy on actuaries.  Prior to joining the IFoA, Phil spent over 20 years in a variety of pensions roles, including a period as a Scheme Actuary to a number of schemes.

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