John Anderson

Executive: Solutions and Enablement

• B.Com (Hons)
• Fellow of the Actuarial Society of South Africa and Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

Appointed: 1 May 2017

John is the executive for Solutions and Enablement at Alexforbes. In this role he oversees the management of the Group’s solutions in line with the company’s approach of securing a lifetime of financial well-being for clients. He has over 20 years’ experience in employee benefits and asset management. John has consulted to a number of large clients as valuator, employee benefit consultant, investment consultant and portfolio manager. He was the national head of consulting strategy for many years before leading the Research & Product Development area in Alexander Forbes Financial Services.

John is a fellow of both the Actuarial Society of South Africa (FASSA) and the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (FFA). He is a member of the ASISA Strategy and Policy Advisory Committee, previous member of various industry bodies, including the Research Committee and Retirement Matters Committee of the Actuarial Society of South Africa, ASISA Retirement Standing Committee and ASISA Retirement Reform Committee. He is a former member of the Council of the Actuarial Society of South Africa. In 2016, John co-authored a paper titled “The retirement income frontier and its application in constructing investment strategies at retirement”. This paper received the prize for the best paper by first-time authors and the best overall paper presented at the 2016 Actuarial Convention as well as a special award by the German Institute of Pension Actuaries (IVS) at the International Congress of Actuaries 2018. This research has contributed towards innovation in the retirement industry, with advisers and providers increasingly using combinations of annuity types following the release of the paper.