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Apollo / Athene India
Evidence of actuarial hiring: (a) Director, Actuary posting, Mumbai, Sep 2025, leading a team of 4-8 actuaries in the Athene-Apollo India actuarial team (source). Checked 11 Nov 2026.
About Apollo / Athene India
Apollo / Athene India is the Mumbai actuarial team of Apollo Global Management, the US alternative asset manager, working for Athene, the US retirement-services and annuity insurer that merged with Apollo in 2022. The team sits within Apollo's Mumbai office.
The team does annuity pricing for Athene's US business: running pricing models and setting new-business and renewal rates for fixed annuities, fixed indexed annuities, registered index-linked annuities (RILAs) and single-premium immediate annuities (SPIAs). A September 2025 posting for a Director, Actuary described leading a team of 4 to 8 actuaries.
For a student, this is a rare chance in India to work on US annuity pricing, where interest-rate and option features matter more than mortality alone. The team is small and the roles seen have been experienced ones.
Also known as: Athene India actuarial team
What the actuarial team does
- Pricing model runs for US fixed and fixed indexed annuities
- New-business and renewal rate setting
- Pricing of RILAs and single-premium immediate annuities
- Analysis of interest-rate and option costs in annuity products
- Support to Athene's US pricing and product teams
How students get in
Roles appear on Apollo's careers site (careers.apollo.com). The posting seen in September 2025 was for a Director, Actuary leading 4 to 8 actuaries, which suggests the team below includes analysts and actuaries at several levels. Candidates generally need life or annuity pricing experience, several IFoA or SOA papers, and comfort with financial mathematics (CM1, CM2). Fresher and internship routes are not published.
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Questions students ask
What papers or skills does the Athene India team ask for?
Exact paper counts are not published. Annuity pricing draws heavily on CM1 and CM2, and the roles seen asked for prior pricing experience.
Where does the team sit?
In Apollo's Mumbai office.
Does it take freshers or interns?
Not published. The roles seen were experienced ones; watch careers.apollo.com for analyst openings.
