• Dynamic global market leader
• Excellent actuarial career development opportunities
• Suitable for final year students
• Melbourne Location

Russell Investments is a global investment management company that believes investors of all sizes can benefit from access to the world’s leading money managers. To that end, we research, identify and select best-of-breed investment managers from around the world.

We put those managers to work for some of the world’s largest investors, financial advisers and individuals saving for retirement. We provide sophisticated investment solutions including investment and superannuation funds, pensions, institutional asset management and implementation services, as well as our global equity indexes.

Russell’s Actuarial and Benefits Consulting practice is one of the leading actuarial practices in superannuation and is a key part of Russell’s provisions of a full range of services to Australian clients.  The Actuarial and Benefits Consulting team advisers some of Australia’s leading companies and Government on the security of more than a million individuals’ benefits representing more than $60 billion of assets.

We are seeking high-calibre graduates who are in their final year of studies to start working with us in 2011.  An opportunity exists for a permanent grad position.

Graduates are recruited from the core disciplines of actuarial science, commerce, economics, finance, mathematics, statistics, physics and engineering. In addition to excellent grades we require people with lots of motivation, excellent communication skills, the ability to apply their analytical skills, and who enjoy working in a team environment. The successful candidate would be expected to study for the Actuarial exams.

Russell takes great pride in looking after our most important asset, our associates, through a culture of rewarding achievement, excellent working conditions and focus on developing staff to their full potential.  These are highly sought after career opportunities within a fast paced and dynamic financial services firm.

Typically analysts in the Actuarial and Benefits Consulting Line of Business work on projects in the following areas:

• strategy, design, valuation and compliance for superannuation plans
• mergers and acquisitions benefit strategy
• determining the appropriate investment objectives, strategies and asset, allocations for clients, through asset/liability studies
• design and valuation of incentive plans such as share and option schemes
• design and implementation of member investment choice programs

You will be offered a competitive salary package and opportunities for continued career and salary progression.

To apply please send your resume, cover letter and current transcripts to:

Russell Graduate Recruitment
GPO Box 3279
SYDNEY NSW 2001; or

syd-hrr@russell.com

Closing date for applications: 5.00pm Monday May 3^rd, 2010.

Please ensure you include your address, phone number, University, area of study, and desired location (Melbourne).  For further information please go to www.russell.com.au

Date: Thursday 22 April
Time: 7:30pm-10:30pm
Venue: Red Triangle Snooker Room, 110 Argyle Street, Fitzroy
Cost: $10 for members, $15 for non-members, including non-alcoholic drinks

Want to impress your potential employers and friends with your “extra-curricular skills”? Your procrastinatory games of pool at INU Bar can finally pay off!

Get together in teams of 2 and pit yourself against the formidable skills of sponsor teams in our inaugural Student vs Sponsor Pool Tournament. This is also a perfect opportunity to ask questions or network with firm representatives and fellow actuaries.

Places are STRICTLY limited, so contact your Year Level Reps to register teams ASAP!

Can a uni student beat Taylor Fry? Taylor Fry are delighted to invite you to enter our inaugural uni student tipping competition!

Taylor Fry has developed some simple footy tipping models and we challenge you to beat them. We’ll be entering 3 tipsters using only statistical models (one Treenet® model and two GLMs). We expect to beat most of you but the law of averages will mean we are unlikely to beat you all. Of course you’ll also be competing against other students.

You better hurry because there is $500 of cold hard cash to be won and it’s free to enter… Just put your tips in once a week and you could be on your way to glory.

To join in the fun:
1. sign up to www.footytips.com.au (the 3rd party free website that we use to run the competition)
2. then click on “join a comp”, comp name: “Taylor Fry AFL Student Tipping” and password: “Beat_the_Geek”

Up for grabs is:
1st prize: $300 cash
2nd prize: $150 cash
3rd prize: $50 cash

For more information, click here.

Date: Wednesday 24 March
Time: 6pm-9pm
Venue: INU Bar, Level 1 Union House
Cost: $5 for members, $7 for non-members, which includes wedges and drinks

This is the perfect chance to show off your arsenal of pointless information to friends and classmates, and prove how smart actuaries really are. Non-actuarial students are welcome to join in – here’s the opportunity to prove us wrong!

Get together in teams of 3-5, with prizes for the winning team. Tickets will be sold at the door; otherwise, contact your Year Level Representatives to register.

Congratulations to Lucy Feng for becoming Actuarial Students’ Society’s 1st Year Representative for 2010. Thanks to all the candidates who applied for the position. If you are interested in joining the committee for 2011, we will be holding our AGM at the end of the year.

If you would like to sign up as a member of the Actuarial Students’ Society, want to register for events or have any questions, you can either send us an email or talk to your Year Level Representatives.

1st Year: Lucy Feng
2nd Year: Matthew Slavin
3rd Year: Prashant Ramesh
Honours Year: Ani Rajgopal

Date: Friday 19 March
Time: 12pm-2pm
Venue: Executive Lounge, Level 1, Alan Gilbert Building (the opposite side of Grattan Street)

Join us at our first official career luncheon for Finity Consulting, one of our society’s Gold Sponsors. Finity is the largest independent general insurance actuarial consulting firm in Australia. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand, they employ over 70 people and combine actuarial and operational expertise to offer a broad range of services to a large client base.

If the promise of a free lunch doesn’t already appeal to you, let it be known they are currently recruiting graduates, and also offer internships to actuarial students over the vacation period. Whether you’re in first year or final year, come along if you would like to learn more about Finity and the consulting industry.

For more information, please view the flyer available here and here or visit the Finity careers page.

Come have a chat with us and learn about what life is like at Towers Watson at our Graduate Recruitment Information Session next week.

Towers Perrin and Watson Wyatt have come together as Towers Watson, a global company with a common set of values and a singular focus: our clients. We bring together 14,000 professionals from 34 countries around the world—experts in Benefits, Risk and Financial Services and Talent and Reward—to deliver the perspectives that give our clients a clear path forward. We offer talented university graduates career opportunities in the areas of Benefits and Risk and Financial Services.

If you have a flair for numbers, people and problem-solving, then you can help to solve some of today’s most complex business problems, whilst also developing your career. With opportunities across our business, we offer a world of choice.

Towers Watson Graduate Recruitment Information Session
Date: Monday 15 March 2010
Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm
Venue: Old Arts, Theatre D

For further information please view the flyer available here or visit the Towers Watson careers page.
We look forward to seeing you there.

Our Gold sponsors, Finity Consulting, are currently recruiting graduates. We will also be hosting a careers luncheon for them next week; keep your eyes on the website and your email for further details.

Graduate Recruitment

(A full flyer is available here)

Finity Consulting is growing and searching for graduates with great minds to join us. You will discover this is a special opportunity to become an actuarial analyst in an award winning team.

Finity is the largest independent general insurance actuarial consulting firm in Australia. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne and New Zealand we employ over 70 people and combine actuarial and operational expertise to offer a broad range of services to a large client base.

Finity has a unique non-hierarchical culture with an open work environment. When you work with industry leaders, you gain invaluable experience by observing how things are done. With your experienced colleagues just metres away, they are very approachable and your questions get answered.

Imagine yourself within a friendly and supportive environment that offers unrivalled work diversity, encourages personal growth and rewards your hard work. Now take the action to make it real. We are taking applications now.

For more information and details on how to apply visit www.finity.com.au/recruiting now.

Date: Thursday 11 March
Time: 11am – 12pm
Venue: Turner Theatre, Botany

Bain will be hosting a case interview workshop where students can learn more about Bain’s interview process. This is a great opportunity to find out more about management consulting, which is an alternative career pathway for actuarial students.

For more information, visit www.joinbain.com or email australia.recruiting@bain.com.

We are currently seeking a First Year Representative to join our 2010 committee. The successful applicant will be responsible for:

- Informing fellow first year students about upcoming ASS events.
- Liaising with the first year community.
- Assisting fellow committee members in organising events.

The position is a great opportunity to have fun, make friends, challenge yourself and it looks impressive on your CV.

We’ve received a number of emails already; if you’re interested, let us know by sending an email to contact@melbourneactuary.com by Monday 8 March.

We’ll be conducting short interviews next week to select our new committee member.