European Actuarial Academy (EAA)

The web session 'A Refresher Course in Financial Mathematics' gives an introduction to modern financial mathematics and derivative pricing. It is designed to prepare actuaries without adequate training in these fields for the quantitative parts of the CERA education. The web session is moreover an ideal learning opportunity for actuaries who want to become acquainted […]

The amended Solvency II Directive entered into force on 28 January 2025 and will apply from 30 January 2027 following national transposition. The Solvency II reporting as of the first quarter of 2027 will be under the new framework. This session will provide a thorough understanding of the key changes on pillar 1 by illustrating […]

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly reshaping how actuaries approach problem-solving, analysis, and communication. Beyond their familiar chat interfaces, these tools offer far more powerful capabilities through programmatic access, allowing users to interact directly with the underlying Large Language Models (LLMs) via APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Compared with manual, web-based use, API […]

Generative AI (GenAI) tools such as ChatGPT are rapidly reshaping how actuaries approach problem-solving, analysis, and communication. Beyond their familiar chat interfaces, these tools offer far more powerful capabilities through programmatic access, allowing users to interact directly with the underlying Large Language Models (LLMs) via APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). Compared with manual, web-based use, API […]

Non-Life insurance is facing many challenges ranging from fierce competition in the market or evolution in the distribution channel used by consumers to evolution of the regulatory environment. Pricing is the central link between solvency, profitability and market shares (volume). Improving pricing practice encompasses several dimensions: - Technical: is our pricing adequate to cover the […]

In life and protection insurance, accurately assessing mortality is a cornerstone of pricing, reserving, and risk management. Standard mortality tables provide a useful benchmark but often fail to reflect the specific characteristics of an insurer’s portfolio. As a result, insurers increasingly rely on experience-based mortality tables to better capture their own risk profile. However, building […]

Actuarial work is full of tasks that are technically routine but stubbornly manual: rebuilding a Solvency II balance sheet, regenerating year-end reporting and QRTs, reconciling a cashflow model against the numbers it is supposed to reproduce, refreshing an MI dashboard, or standing up a small tool to answer a one-off question from the business. Each […]

Regulatory frameworks such as Solvency II require non-life insurers to quantify extreme risks — most notably the 99.5% Value-at-Risk over a one-year horizon for the Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR). In practice, however, this poses a fundamental challenge: historical loss data contains little to no information about such rare events, making direct estimation inherently unreliable. This […]

The 4-day web session assists actuaries in broadening their knowledge about modern quantitative financial and actuarial modelling; these topics form an essential part of the CERA syllabus. At the beginning of the online training we give a brief overview of the EAA-route to the CERA designation. The core part of the web session begins with […]

This is part one of four courses required to obtain the EAA Certificate in Actuarial Data Science. To earn the certificate, participants must complete all four modules, which include both the seminar and the exam. Members of AVÖ and/or DAV will obtain the additional title Certified Actuarial Data Scientist (by AVÖ and/or DAV) by fulfilling […]

This module deals with the challenges of implementing ERM Processes. It includes requirements on ERM Processes and the discussion of best practices. It will be presented how to define an organisation’s risk strategy, risk appetite, risk tolerances and limits. We discuss how business strategy influences risk strategy and show their necessary interaction. We demonstrate the […]

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 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 and […]