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 […]
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 […]
