Louise Aracas, Senior Product Manager - Retirement, AustralianSuper

Louise Aracas is a Senior Product Manager (Retirement) at AustralianSuper, responsible for delivering product development and improvement initiatives for retirees. She has over 17 years’ experience in superannuation, across both retirement and insurance product management, member services and financial advice, and has held roles with AGEST Super, Superpartners and IFS. Louise has a Masters in Applied Finance, an Advanced diploma of Financial Services and a bachelor of Arts/Science.

Young Tan, Manager of Actuarial & Research, UniSuper

Young is an actuary passionate about developing simple and effective frameworks that support and guide people through retirement income planning.  He is interested in developing effective retirement solutions that can meaningfully improve retirees’ financial confidence and outcomes and are also transparent and communicable.

Young is currently the Manager of Actuarial & Research at UniSuper where he leads the development of the fund’s retirement income strategy. Young is Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia, and he serves on the Superannuation Projections and Disclosure sub-committee and the Life Insurance & Retirement Education Faculty. He has presented at Actuaries summits and the Colloquium on Pensions and Retirement Research.

Brnic Van Wyk, Head of Asset Liability Management, Australian Retirement Trust

Brnic leads the development of the Australian Retirement Trust’s ALM framework, member data analysis, models and governance structures. He is a member of the Investments leadership group and his team is responsible for:

• designing the cohort structure and managing investment strategies for the MySuper product, QSuper Lifetime; and
• the ongoing operational, actuarial and solvency management of the asset pool for the new Lifetime Pension product.

Brnic is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia and the Institute of Actuaries (UK). He is a CIMA® certificant, FEAL member and serves on the Superannuation and Investments Practice Committee of the Actuaries Institute (including the Superannuation Projections and Disclosures Sub-committee and Retirement Incomes Working Group). He is a Board member of the Pension Benefits and Social Security Section of the International Actuarial Association, the CIMA Society of Australia and the International Advisory Board of the EDHEC-Risk Institute (France).