European Actuarial Academy (EAA)

The main improvement in insurance accounting under IFRS 17 was to align the income statement with modern accounting principles. IFRS 17 requires differentiation between movements of the insurance contract liability that represent earnings received for providing services and are presented as insurance revenue, expenses resulting from the provision of services, and insurance finance income or […]

The goal of this web session is to provide a comprehensive explication of the actuarial methods in Health SLT insurance which are commonly used in European jurisdictions. Case studies are presented to introduce some recent developments in the design of life-long health covers. By the end of the online training, participants will have an understanding […]

The session aims to provide participants with a comprehensive introduction regarding the risk adjustment concept under IFRS 17. We will shed light on the general concepts behind risk adjustment and its application within IFRS 17 and illustrate the importance of risk adjustment in measuring, presenting, and disclosing insurance contracts. The online training will also provide […]

The goal of this two-day training is to introduce the participants to the R open-source ecosystemand to give them a good understanding of this 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 […]

With the introduction of new accounting frameworks, the corresponding alignment of planning and performance management and with the increasing need for sophisticated asset liability management, the stochastic assessment of risk and value in connection with participating life insurance portfolios has become the industry standard over the last decade. The underlying basis for such an assessment […]

The aim of the web session is to provide pension actuaries and other interested experts with an overview of topics and methods in relation to the discussion of intergenerational fairness. This web session continues the first session in October 2025 and now dives deeper into actuarial modelling. First, we will briefly introduce the concept of […]

Excel-based tariff calculators remain a cornerstone of actuarial work in life insurance, and in early 2026 we showed in our first EAA web session 'From Excel Tariff Calculators to LLM-Powered Python Code', how Large Language Models (LLMs) can help to port them into structured Python code. The feedback was encouraging, and the field has moved […]

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

Actuaries have long relied on time-tested statistical models to forecast risk. Methods such as ARIMA, GLMs, and the Lee–Carter model remain valuable tools, and in many settings they still perform well. However, the environment in which actuaries will work is changing. This web session will explore why we are moving beyond these traditional boundaries and […]

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 […]

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 […]