Sing Yee Yeoh
Sing Yee Yeoh is a consulting actuary in Milliman’s life insurance consulting practice in Hong Kong. She joined the firm in 2010. In her current role, she manages various appraisal valuation projects and provides support to local and multinational insurance companies in the areas of actuarial due diligence, product design and pricing, and financial reporting. She has more than 18 years of experience in the life insurance industry. She has worked on several important merger and acquisition-related and business planning projects in most of the countries in the Asia-Pacific region, especially Hong Kong and Thailand.
Experience
Sing Yee's experience includes:
- Participating as a core member of the team advising NWS’s acquisition of FTLife (2018), Mass Mutual Asia’s sale to Yunfeng Financial Group (2017), and Dah Sing Life’s sale to Thai Hot Group (2016)
- Acting as a co-leader for various appraisal valuation projects of life insurance companies on the sell-side in Thailand and Hong Kong, as well as managing numerous buy-side valuation and due diligence work in various markets especially in South East Asia
- Carrying out business planning for potential joint venture opportunities of various bancassurance companies in several markets, including Indonesia, Vietnam, and China
- Serving as the assistant appointed actuary assisting in reviewing product approval, reviewing experience studies, conducting model reviews, developing dividend policy, and performing statutory reporting and reinsurance arrangements in Hong Kong and Macau
- Providing support to various Hong Kong clients in HKRBC implementation, as well as ORSA- and SST-related work, and also advising a Hong Kong client on EV / VNB reporting under the HKRBC framework
- Managing strategy projects focusing on market benchmarking, including new business margin/ product feature/ pricing metrics / assumptions benchmarking and expense assumptions benchmarking that cover several markets in Asia
- Participating in several portfolio-transfer-related projects pertaining to direct insurers and reinsurers and acting as the expert witness in one of these projects
- Carrying out market entry research for emerging markets, including Thailand, Indonesia, and Vietnam
- Managing the appraisal valuation of Nan Shan—a major life insurance company in Taiwan—and providing support in actuarial due diligence
- Leading the appraisal valuation of one of the top life insurance companies in South Korea in a potential initial public offering
Sing Yee also worked on a variety of other projects, including:
- Assisting in appointed actuary work for one major bancassurance company in Hong Kong that covered product development, profit-testing, statutory valuation, dynamic solvency testing, business plan projection, asset-liability management, and reinsurance contract review
- Leading the modelling work of an MCEV product benchmarking exercise for a major Hong Kong insurance company
- Carrying out modelling for life products for several non-life insurance companies in South Korea
- Acting as secondment to UK and Spain for EC and MCEV work
Professional Designations
- Fellow of the Society of Actuaries
- Fellow of Society of Actuaries Thailand
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Sciences from the National University of Malaysia
Publications