Jack Carmichael FIA

Jack works in both senior consulting and senior longevity actuary roles. His consulting work involves advising trustees of DB pension schemes including actuarial valuations, setting appropriate mortality assumptions, undertaking mortality analyses, corporate accounting disclosures and buy-in/out feasibility assessments.

He also leads Barnett Waddingham’s Longevity Network, which champions longevity-related issues for DB pension schemes and disseminates technical longevity research to other actuaries in the firm.

Jack also works with the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI). He is Assistant Secretary to the CMI Mortality Projections Committee, which produces the CMI Mortality Projections Model, and to the CMI Covid-19 Working Party, set up to provide technical assistance to the other CMI Committees in light of the abnormal mortality data observed in 2020.  

Significant experience:

• Manages the production of the annual CMI Mortality Projections Model, and involved with other research published by the CMI Mortality Projections Committee
• Secretary to the CMI COVID-19 Working Party
• Secretary to the Mortality Research Steering Committee, an Institute and Faculty of Actuaries committee which aims to advance mortality research in the actuarial profession, and a member of the Longevity and Mortality MIG
• Developed Barnett Waddingham’s standard mortality assumptions advice analysis report 
• Acts as a subject matter expert in longevity for Scheme Actuaries and clients across the firm
• Involved with actuarial valuations for several £1bn+ DB pension schemes