Louis Rossouw

Current

Regional Chief Actuary - ASEAN & India at Gen Re

Past

Chief Actuary at Gen Re
Technical Actuary at Gen Re
Actuarial Risk Analyst at Swiss Re

Actuarial Risk Analyst at Munich Re
Actuarial Risk Analyst at BUPA

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Education

Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
University of Cape Town

Connections

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Industry

Insurance

Websites

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Louis Rossouw’s Summary

Actuary working for Gen Re on life reinsurance. Involved in product development, pricing, research and coroporate work. Research projects include longevity research and of life insurance experience.

Louis Rossouw’s Specialties:

Pricing, life insurance, product development, research, valuations, corporate, profitability analysis, reinsurance, profit share, longevity, mortality, catastrophe pricing, financial reinsurance

Louis Rossouw’s Experience

Regional Chief Actuary - ASEAN & India

Gen Re

(Public Company; Insurance industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Chief Actuary

Gen Re

(Public Company; Insurance industry)

January 2009 — March 2009 (3 months)
Technical Actuary

Gen Re

(Public Company; Insurance industry)

January 2001 — January 2009 (8 years 1 month)

I was a member of the technical team and I was involved with individual pricing, group pricing & quotes as well as internal corporate work. This included product development and pricing research.

I also had responsibility for improving Gen Re’s knowledge surrounding HIV/AIDS and ensuring that Gen Re was seen to be knowledgeable with regard to HIV/AIDS
Actuarial Risk Analyst

Swiss Re

(Public Company; Insurance industry)

December 1999 — April 2001 (1 year 5 months)

I was recruited to assist with valuation and to develop documentation for Swiss Re’s new MoSes based valuation systems:
• Involved with setting up assumptions for the system, solving data issues practically, running models and checking results.
• Gained further experience in US GAAP, Net Premium and Embedded Value calculations and their South African implementation. Experience of Financial Soundness calculations and using the MoSes projection and valuation system.
• Experience in system documentation.
• I also developed tools and methods to improve system functionality and efficiency.
Actuarial Risk Analyst

Munich Re

(Public Company; Insurance industry)

July 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 6 months)

I was recruited by Munich Re to develop an up to date valuation system for the life branch using Microsoft Access and the accompanying Visual Basic programming language. The previous system worked using hundreds of Excel spreadsheets and the task was to combine this into one program with a central database and central valuation assumptions. Key roles & experience:
• Redoing all of the projection code into a simple, understandable set of code that could be used in a flexible manner. The system also manages the assumption information related to the different bases.
• Work to enhance its capabilities to cover other business types and valuation methods including Embedded Value and US GAAP approaches.
• I was also responsible for the Electronic Data Transfer system which translates policyholder data received from cedants to a Munich Re format.
• Various business types and their workings and the basic workings of a reinsurance life office
• Dealing with clients on technical issues.
Actuarial Risk Analyst

BUPA

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Insurance industry)

January 1998 — June 1998 (6 months)

I was part of BUPA’s lifetime value team and I was also involved in various other projects of a statistical nature. My work here included:
• Statistical analyses including a marketing analysis for BUPA’s hospitals. I produced statistical models for each hospital indicating areas with high likelihood of responding to direct marketing. These were used to direct a marketing campaign for several of the hospitals.
• Production of claims models for use in the lifetime value project. This included getting the data from various sources, bringing the data together, exploration and fitting of models. This is typical of the work I did for BUPA.

Louis Rossouw’s Education

Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch

Hons. B.Com. , Actuarial Science , 1994 — 1997

Activities and Societies:

Hockey, Wine Culture Society, AIESEC
University of Cape Town

Post Graduatuate Actuarial Diploma , Actuarial Science