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Jon Palin FIA

Partner and Senior Longevity Consultant
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Jon advises a range of clients on longevity, including base mortality assumptions and variations between different populations, and mortality projections, including stochastic models.

Jon works closely with the Continuous Mortality Investigation (CMI). He is responsible for the production of the industry-standard CMI Mortality Projections Model and “S3” series pensioner mortality tables, and provides technical guidance to other CMI committees.

Jon also works with insurers and pension schemes, including projects on cause of death and stochastic models, and is recognised for his clear explanation of technical issues.

Significant experience

  • reviewing the CMI Mortality Projections Model and developing the improvements implemented in CMI_2016
  • developing mortality tables for Kazakhstan and providing training to local stakeholders
  • helping an insurer to develop its stochastic longevity model for Solvency II
  • research on “spurious cohort” problems in existing stochastic longevity models
  • formerly a volunteer member of the CMI SAPS and Mortality Projections Committees, and chair of the CMI’s Graduation and Modelling Working Party

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Career

Jon joined Barnett Waddingham in 2014 and became a Partner in 2018. He became a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries in 2005 and has degrees in Mathematics from the University of Oxford and in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from the University of Sussex, graduating in 1996 and 2005 respectively. His work before joining Barnett Waddingham has covered a wide range of pension fund asset and liability risk management, as well as longevity and mortality consulting to insurance and capital market clients, and a catastrophe risk project with the World Bank.

Memberships

  • IFoA/LLMA Basis Risk Working Group

Interests

Apart from spending time with his young family, Jon enjoys orienteering and long-distance running and is a county croquet player.