Hawkins Consulting Corporation

Michael is the founder and President of Hawkins Consulting Corporation. At Hawkins Consulting, Michael enjoys serving clients in Canada, the United States and the Caribbean. Before founding Hawkins Consulting, Michael worked as a consultant to the insurance industry at a large international consulting group. With his extensive experience in the financial services industry, Michael has developed knowledge and experience across multiple disciplines. Michael has expertise in insurance, investments, corporate finance and securitization.

Through his work as a consultant and his prior position with a multi-national insurance company, Michael has developed strong skills in project management, negotiation and financial modelling. His responsibilities in these positions included developing new insurance products, managing the product implementation process, pricing life, health and annuity products, insurance product portfolio reviews, merger and acquisition valuations, financial reporting and developing models to assess corporate solvency.

By profession, Michael is an actuary and is enrolled as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (F.S.A.) and holds the designation of Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (F.C.I.A.). By training, Michael is a mathematician. A graduate of the University of Waterloo, Michael was granted a Bachelor of Mathematics degree in Honours Actuarial Science (BMath). Michael graduated With Distinction, Dean's Honour List.

Michael's business interests lie in leveraging his expertise, experience and training to design and implement solutions that meet the needs of financial institutions, businesses and individuals.

"With the help of Michael Hawkins, we have been able to design unique financial instruments that offer exceptional value to our clients. Michael is a valuable business associate with his innovative mind and can-do attitude. I am convinced that Michael can add value to the design of any financial program."

Garnet Morris, Principal,
Targeted Strategies Limited

"I have dealt with Michael Hawkins as a supplier of services for implementing solutions for our business needs and as an intermediary looking to us for financial products for his other clients. Michael has an ability to bring focus to key matters requiring resolution and his skill in negotiating their resolution was invaluable.

"We have found Michael to be very effective in managing projects and working with all parties to move it swiftly and efficiently to completion. I look forward to continuing to work with Michael in the future."

Peter McCarthy, President and CEO,
BMO Life Assurance Company

"I have worked closely with Michael Hawkins on a number of structured finance projects involving the use of insurance products. Michael combines his strengths in the insurance area with his interests in other financial disciplines to offer a unique perspective on new and innovative financial products. Michael is creative, knowledgeable and focused sharply on his clients' goals.

"I enjoy working with Michael and am frequently impressed by his ingenuity and agility."

Stephen Ashbourne, partner in major Canadian law firm
practicing in structured finance and securities

Karen is a Consultant retained by Hawkins Consulting Corporation. With Hawkins Consulting, Karen serves clients and develops business opportunities. Before joining Hawkins Consulting, Karen worked as a U.S. based consultant to the insurance industry at a large international consulting group. Karen offers clients a valuable combination of experience, expertise and enthusiasm.

With over a decade of working with a multitude of insurance companies, Canadian, U.S., and multinational, Karen has developed excellent project management and client relationship management skills integrated with a solid actuarial foundation. Her responsibilities have included economic value calculations, serving as the signing actuary for a Barbadian captive containing Latin American credit insurance, assisting with the assessment of a company’s Enterprise Risk Management readiness through an ERM assessment study, assisting with appraisals and due diligence for insurance company mergers and acquisitions, managing a product review of annuity and universal life bonuses, modelling deferred annuities for asset adequacy testing purposes, assisting with the preparation of a U.S. insurer’s New York state filing and assisting with all aspects of litigation support including exposure and qualitative analyses.

Karen is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (F.S.A.), a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries (M.A.A.A.) and an Associate of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries. Karen holds a Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Calgary.

"In my ten years experience working with Karen, she consistently managed our annual project, lasting several months and encompassing numerous resources from a variety of professional backgrounds, to completion. She always demonstrated resourcefulness and flexibility as she came up with solutions to solve any problems that may have arose. She communicated effectively with our reinsurance partners to enhance our current relationships, providing give and take when required in order to get the job done. Overall, I was extremely satisfied with the way she conducted herself and would be pleased to recommend her in any way, shape or form."

David Getz, VP & Controller,
Standard Security Life Insurance Company of New York

"I have always found Karen to have a strong “client-first” work ethic as she tirelessly strives to make sure that her clients receive the very best service she can deliver. Karen manages project work in a professional and organized way and is adept at communicating with multiple professional disciplines to produce a well rounded deliverable."

David G. Whittemore,
former actuarial consultant in a large financial services firm

Hawkins Consulting Corporation is a limited liability company incorporated in the Province of Ontario, Canada.

Hawkins Consulting Corporation was incorporated in 2001. It amalgamated with IFP Solutions Limited in 2006. IFP Solutions Limited was incorporated in 2000.


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