Biographies
Andrew McGuinness, FIA - Director
Andrew McGuinness has a mathematics degree from the University of Cambridge, and qualified as an actuary in 2007. He joined EMB after graduating in 2002 and is based in the Cambridge office.
Andrew has a wide range of modelling experience and is a specialist in EMB’s industry-leading software products Igloo and ExtrEMB. He has implemented models for a number of enterprises, ranging from large Bermudian reinsurers to small Lloyd’s syndicates; from vast multi-year models with quarterly projection, to single period models with intricate representations of catastrophe exposure and highly complex reinsurance programmes; and for a variety of purposes: including regulatory capital, long-term forecasting and business planning. He also has experience of economic scenario and asset modelling, and London market reserving. He has been heavily involved in the training and ongoing support EMB provides to users of Igloo and ExtrEMB.
Andrew maintains involvement with the ongoing research and development carried out at EMB’s Cambridge office, with interests in multivariate Monte-Carlo techniques. His team is responsible for the development and maintenance of the Igloo and ExtrEMB system libraries, which provide clients with ready-built, efficient solutions to common modelling and parameterisation situations. The team is also leading EMB’s research into the new Solvency II regime, and maintain EMB’s Solvency II web portal www.solvency-2.com.