Looking forward

Having once won a maths competition open to every child in Liverpool, it should be no great surprise that Jason Hurley became an actuary. However, this was not his initial plan, he says, admitting it was more of a fluke that he went down that route. "I went to medical school at the age of 17 but failed my biochemistry exam and that was the end of that career. So I did a degree in maths and went to SunLife in Bristol as a student," he says. After spending seven years doing a variety of different jobs at the firm and studying for his actuarial exams at the same time, Hurley went on to work ...