For years, correlation has been central to the actuarial profession's practice. Actuaries have mastered the art of identifying patterns in historical data to price risk and predict future losses. However, in the era of "Big Data" and increasingly complex algorithms, there is a critical limitation: traditional statistical models can tell us what is happening, but […]
on 22/23 & 25/26 June 2026 Due to the inversion of the production cycle, the insurance business is very different from other traditional industries. Understanding, measuring and managing the performance of insurance companies is difficult due to the specific risks insurance companies must cover. It is therefore essential that you, as an employee of the […]
In 2017, after more than two decades of debates, outreach, and Exposure Drafts, the IASB finally published the new IFRS 17 standard for Insurance Contracts. Following additional years of further debates on several actuarial and accounting-related aspects the new standard has become effective on 1st January 2023 and fundamentally changed the way on how many […]
Deep Learning supports Solvency Requirements for Pension Funds and ensures the Guarantee of Benefit Payments at any time. It is particularly well-suited for time series forecasting related to inflation, yield curves and asset allocation returns in order to prepare and review these. We use the Long short-term memory (LSTM) method, a type of recurrent neural […]
