Anthony Asher

Anthony Asher is an actuary and part-time Associate Professor at the UNSW Business School. His working life has been divided between university teaching and a variety of professional roles including Chief Actuary of a life insurer, consultant actuary, and with APRA. Within the Actuaries Institute he is currently a member Risk and Audit Committee and Convenor of the Retirement Incomes Working Group. He is well known in the profession for his interest in ethics in professional life, particularly the social impact of actuarial work.

He is also on the board of Fresh Hope Communities, which operates aged care facilities and retirement villages in NSW, and of PPS Mutual, which administers and distributes life and disability insurance designed for graduate professionals.

The design of post-retirement products and advice is the focus of his current research, which extends his publications in the fields of regulation, investments and insurance