The present training is concerned with the question of economic capital in corporate management. Key aspects are economic valuation and performance, economic steering, key performance indicators, and value based management. A simplified case study for a life insurer shows in a nutshell the central aspects of corporate management in practice. The course consists of lectures […]

For an insurance company, ensuring the proper coordination between assets and liabilities in order to achieve targeted financial objectives is of paramount interest. A strategy used to reach such objectives is "asset and liability management" (ALM in short). ALM can therefore be viewed as any ongoing process that defines, implements, and monitors financial strategies to manage […]

The aim of this web session is to present some advanced actuarial/statistical techniques used in non-life pricing, competition analysis and profitability analysis. The websession focuses on some practical problems faced by pricing actuaries and product managers and presents some new techniques used in non-life pricing in order to open new perspectives for product development (competition […]

More than three years into the pandemic, uncertainties still remain about the ongoing and long-term impact on health caused by the Covid-19 infection and the pandemic situation. This includes sequelae of the acute infection such as "Long Covid" as well as cardiovascular risks (e.g., heart attacks and strokes), but also indirect effects such as disrupted […]

This session aims at describing the similarities and differences between the financial and prudential frameworks applicable to insurers. After a general overview, we will focus on discount rates and risk margin/risk adjustment. A case study will then illustrate the application of those concepts to an insurance portfolio. Anmeldeschluss: 2023-04-23 Link: https://actuarial-academy.com/seminars/seminar?No=E0356

The goal of the two-day web session is to provide participants with a comprehensive introduction to the new measurement, presentation and disclosure guidance for insurance contracts. It will cover life, health and non-life business, including the special guidance on direct participating contracts and shorter term non-life contracts and give useful examples. In the web session, […]

IFRS 17 requires that risks inherent in the cash flows of the insurance contracts are considered in measurement, differentiating between financial risks and non-financial risks. While the financial risks are measured at their current (estimated) market value, non-financial risks are measured at “the compensation that the entity requires for bearing the uncertainty about the amount […]

The goal of this two-day training is to introduce the participants to both open source ecosystems and to get a good understanding of both languages. However, since both ecosystems are way too vast to be covered in merely two days, the participants will be asked to go through the basics of both languages themselves, prior […]