About Us
Profile
Taylor Fry began operations in April 1999. It was formed in response to the
perceived market need for an additional significant actuarial consultancy.
We provide services in actuarial, statistical and financial modelling
solutions for business and government.
At start-up the firm comprised four actuaries and two other professional staff.
Currently there are 34 professional actuarial staff comprising 17
experienced actuaries and 17 actuarial analysts. In addition there are four
support staff.
The average period of general insurance experience for professional staff
is about ten years.
Organisational Structure
The company is wholly Australian owned. About 80% of the members of staff
own the shares in the company. There are four directors who manage the
firm: Greg Taylor, Martin Fry, Alan Greenfield and Adrian Gould.
- We are a firm lacking bureaucracy and politics.
- We are wholly owned by our employees.
- We aim to be agile and responsive to our clients' needs.
- We seek to use statistically rigorous techniques to provide innovative and practical solutions.
- We are environmentally conscious.
Our Company Mission
To PROVIDE
- quality advice
- timely advice
- independent advice
- value for money
To ENSURE our staff have a happy work environment.
TO UNDERTAKE leading edge research.
TO USE leading edge technology.
TO OPERATE in an environmentally sustainable manner.
Reducing the Taylor Fry Footprint - Our Environmental Policy
In 2004 Taylor Fry began the journey to carbon neutrality. That year we
planted 700 trees as part of Planet Ark's National Tree Day near Bathurst to offset some
of our green house gas (“GHG”) emissions during 2004. In 2005 we began
purchasing green energy for our Melbourne office. In 2006 we planted a
further 3000 trees to begin offsetting some of the GHG emissions dating
to the start of the company in 1999 to the end of 2005.
From 1 January 2006 the Taylor Fry board of directors made the commitment
to be a 100% carbon neutral company. In June 2006 we purchased clean
energy credits to offset more than 200 tonnes of CO2 emissions
deriving from TFCA energy use, plane and taxi travel and paper use for
calendar year 2006 [our electricity credits are 100% Green Power
accredited, while those used for offsetting plane travel, paper consumption
etc are Gold Standard Kyoto compliant credits]. We are committed to the
annual purchase of such credits. We also have a program in place to
continue to plant trees every year to offset the emissions from our
first 6 years of operation.
In tandem with our electricity and travel carbon offset programme,
we have a policy to purchase paper sourced from 100% post-consumer
recycled waste. We also have paper recycling facilities in both our offices.
To formalise our environmental and carbon offsetting policies, an annual
reporting system is being developed. The end result will be a report on
2006 CO2 emissions and offsets, as well as our progress towards offsetting
our emissions from earlier years of operation, which will then be updated
yearly. Further details will be posted here as they become available.
Taylor Fry implements a number of other environmental directives.
For example, there is a company program for recycling as much waste as
possible (this includes paper, glass, plastic, tin, aluminium, ink cartridges).
Staff are encouraged to turn off lights and computers when not in use;
many of our staff use laptops rather than desktop computers. Staff ride
bikes, walk and catch public transport to work.
Taylor Fry is perhaps the first actuarial consulting firm in the world
to be 100% carbon neutral1. But we don’t want to be the last. Please join us.
1 Based on an internet search undertaken during May 2006.
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