Mr. Alexander Wong, FASHK

HSBC Life

Mr. Alexander Wong is the Group Chief Actuary for HSBC Life, responsible for overseeing all aspects of actuarial management across all HSBC global insurance manufacturing operations across Asia, Europe and America, and the global Actuarial Center of Excellence (ACE). He has over 20 years of experiences in Life Insurance across Hong Kong, Taiwan and US. He is an active participant in insurance industry development. He serves as the Industry leader for Life Industry Focused Group (IFG) during the ongoing HK Risk-Based Capital (RBC) consultation. Alex is also a member of the Hong Kong Insurance Implementation Support Group (HKIISG) selected by HKICPA advising on the implementation of IFRS 17. He is currently the deputy chairman of HKFI LIC Task Force on Risk-based capital (RBC) Framework and a member of the Hong Kong Academy of Finance (AoF).

Immediately before his appointment in 2021, Alex was the Asia Chief Actuary covering actuarial management across HSBC entities across Asia. Before that, he was the Chief Actuary for Hang Seng Insurance, leading the actuarial function for the 2nd largest HSBC insurance entities globally between 2016 and 2018; and Head of Actuarial & Risk Analytics up until 2015, leading one of the two global centers of excellence of insurance risk and actuarial for HSBC Insurance. With a team of close to 80 risk and actuarial professionals, he has led the delivery of a wide range of actuarial services including valuation across various bases (statutory, IFRS, and economic capital), pricing, Prophet modelling, reinsurance, stress testing and risk analytics to the two major insurance companies in Hong Kong (HSBC Insurance and Hang Seng Insurance), with various supports to other Asia Pacific sites including China, Singapore, Malaysia and India.

Before joining HSBC in 2011, Alex was the Vice President and Appointed Actuary for Nan Shan Life Insurance in Taiwan and served as council member in the Actuarial Institute of Chinese Taipei.  Since 2019 he has been serving as council member for ASHK.

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