Life annuities are aimed at providing income and, notably, post-retirement income. In the context of health insurance, long-term care insurance (LTCI) products conversely aim at protection against the risk of senescent disability. Technical and financial features of the above products might negatively impact their attractiveness, from both the customer’s and the insurer’s perspective. Nonetheless, appropriate […]

Many demographic studies have shown an important positive relationship between life expectancy and socio economic conditions. Shortly summarized, we could say that rich people live longer than poor people. The correlation can be observed, based on different indicators such as education level, wealth or level of income. The gap in terms of life expectancy is […]

The objective of this web session is that participants should become familiar with machine learning techniques used to solve practical problems in finance, banking and insurance. To achieve this we begin from the scratch and introduce machine learning techniques step by step: To start with, we give an overview of this interesting field with the […]

In this web session, we discuss present trends relating to life insurance products and the development of life insurance products. We will deal with savings, retirement as well as risk products. With respect to savings and retirement products, we will tackle the challenge of combining safety and performance opportunity in the low interest environment. In […]

The course shows how different algorithms can be used to obtain a segmentation of insurance data. The methods covered range from centroid-based (k-means, k-prototypes) to probabilistic (Gaussian Mixture Models) and density-based (DBSCAN) approaches. We demonstrate how the clustering results can be visualized and evaluated. Moreover, it will be shown how the clustering results can be […]

While the actuarial community works on developing new ways to measure the economic impact of the risk posed by global warming, it is exceedingly important for Actuaries to gain an understanding of the underlying science of climate change. Having discussed the basics of climate science in a dedicated web session in Q4 2020, we are […]