zcg6433 发表于 2012-2-12 13:04 
well, part of the benefit work should be done by actuaries, pension in particular. MA is for sure  ...
well...I work for Towers Watson...doing life insurance consulting...and we have around 40 colleagues here, more than 90% are actuaries with more than half qualified as FSA/FIA/FIAA, etc.
Our clients are insurance companies in Asia-Pacific region, and we offer a variety of consulting services including but not limited to:
IPO
M&A
Financial Reporting
Pricing
Product & Distribution Strategy
Enterprise Risk Management
Market Entry
Appointed Actuary
Software Modelling
MA for insuranc companies requires collective efforts from several parties including Investment banks, Legal firms, accounting firms, and consulting actuaries as well. Well I 100% agree that the work cannot be done by actuaries alone, but no one other than actuaries would have a better understanding of an insurance company's liability and embedded value. So MA would usually involve consulting actuaries who can offer independent opinion on Methodology/Assumption/Model/Results and also facilitate the whole process.
and, yes TW does have a Talent & Reward segment which focuses on HR consulting, but this is only one part of the whole company.