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The core team at Steve Dixon Associates is:

Steve Dixon.  

Steve is the Principal of the firm.  He has 29 years experience in the UK and offshore life industry.  He is a qualified actuary (Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries ) as well as holding a life actuary (including with profits) practicing certificate from the actuarial profession.  Steve is an Associate of the Institute of Directors .  Steve has experience in dealing with conventional with profits business, unit linked business, non-profit business, unitised with profits as well as dealing with life, pensions and PHI business.  Steve has been involved with several key special projects for clients and is well known amongst the actuarial profession.  He has been on the Life TCF Working Party and is currently on the Life Solvency 2 Working Party.  He is also a member of the Pru Regs Working Party for ILAG and on the Legislation Committee of the AFS.  He maintains a key interest in all work undertaken by the firm.

Contact details:

Phone     01372 734965

Email     steve@stevedixon.co.uk

Alastair George .  

Alastair is a Consultant in the firm.  He joined the firm in August 2002.   After graduating from Nottingham University in 1998, he worked in Friends Provident and Cornhill Insurance on their pensions review and FSAVC loss assessments where he progressed to signing off cases and training staff. He has worked on investment analysis, analysis of insurance company experience, calculations of asset shares using actual investment and expense data as well as working on reserving for life assurers since joining the firm.  He has three of the actuarial examinations completed.

Contact details:

Phone     01372 734960

Email     alastair.george@stevedixon.co.uk

Bianca Hanscombe .  

Bianca is a Consultant in the firm.  A graduate of the University of Zimbabwe with a post graduate Diploma in Actuarial Science from UCT.  She emigrated to the UK in 1998 and has worked as a loss assessor in Cornhill Insurance's pension review progressing to signing off cases and training new staff.  She now has nearly completed all of the actuarial examinations and joined the firm in October 2003.  She has worked on valuations, running model offices, ICAs for clients, reserves for medical expenses , designing valuation systems, pricing new products, developing model office systems and carrying out investigations into experience.

Contact details:

Phone     01372 734962

Email     bianca.hanscombe@stevedixon.co.uk  

Derek Pike .  

Derek is an Associate of the firm.  Derek is a Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries.  He qualified in 1982 and has been widely involved in working parties on with profits business for the actuarial profession.  He is on the Faculty's Bonus and Valuation Research Group and has co-authored papers on "Restructuring Mutuals - Principles and Practice", "With Profits Maturity Payouts, Asset Shares and Bonus Smoothing" and “With Profits Smoothing - A Stochastic Study”.  Derek has been involved with the pensions review and has worked as a sign off auditor on a number of reviews.  He has carried out projects in Poland and in Belgium and Luxembourg .   He has worked in Chicago for a time and has a keen interest in international life developments.

Contact details:

Phone 01372 739034

Email derek.pike@stevedixon.co.uk  

Peter Pook .

Peter is an Associate in the firm.  He graduated from the London School of Economics in 1957 and joined the UK Provident Institution as an actuarial student, qualifying in 1962.  In 1963 he moved to Legal & General Assurance Society where he had a range of roles, including ordinary life valuation, a spell in internal audit, and a ‘special projects’ role in assisting and deputising for the appointed actuary in his work on professional and insurance industry committees and working parties.  He retired in 1996, after which he worked part-time for five years as a loss assessor in Cornhill Insurance’s pensions review.  He joined the firm in November 2004 and after a period working part time, became an associate in July 2007.  He is involved mainly on special projects.

Contact details:

Phone     01372 739034

Email:     peter.pook@stevedixon.co.uk

Mick Rennie.

Mick is an Associate of the firm.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries. He qualified in 1985.  He has co-authored SIAS papers on the EMU and the year 2000 issue (“Ostriches and Emus”) and the development of insurance systems (“A Walk through the Information Technology Maze”).

Mick gained wide experience of unit linked business before in recent years working mainly on system development projects.  These projects have included all types of life and pensions business and have covered development of calculation systems, system migrations and marketing data warehouses.

 Contact details:

Email:     mick.rennie@stevedixon.co.uk

Phil Smith.  

Phil is a Consultant in the firm.  Phil graduated from Heriot Watt in 2000 and joined Lloyds TSB / Scottish Widows as an actuarial student.  He joined Hewitt Bacon and Woodrow as a loss assessor in their compliance consultancy division before joining Cornhill's pension review team.  Phil joined the firm in August 2002 and has carried out product development work, investigations into experience, asset share calculations, special project work as well as working on reserving for the clients of the firm.  He is currently continuing his actuarial studies.

Contact details:

Phone 01372 734963

Rae Elson.  

Rae is a Consultant in the firm.  Rae graduated from University of Kent at Canterbury in 2007 in Actuarial Science.  At university, she enjoyed the modules on contingencies, financial modelling, pensions and life assurance.  Rae continues her studies. 

Contact details:

Phone 01372 734961

Email rae.elson@stevedixon.co.uk

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