Events Archive

Past events and webinar recordings

April 2023

26Apr
Online webinarGeneral Insurance Spring Conference – Walk the talk – the trials and tribulations of building a market-leading Pricing Data Science Team

General Insurance Spring Conference

This session will be an unvarnished look at the practical challenges encountered in building a market-leading Pricing Data Science Team within a large established insurer.

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26Apr
Online webinarGeneral Insurance Spring Conference - Why automated reserving doesn't work - and how to fix it

General Insurance Spring Conference

In this presentation, we will discuss typical automation approaches and their flaws; how could you do it differently through alternative modelling approaches and wider considerations; and how might the reserving world of the future look.

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25Apr
Online webinarGeneral Insurance Spring Conference – Bootstrapping the Cape-Cod method for reserve risk estimation

General Insurance Spring Conference

In this webinar, we define bootstrap procedures for the Cape-Cod method, show how these can be applied and how the results compare to more established methods used in practice. We consider which of the methods are more appropriate for use in reserve risk estimation under Solvency II and accounting estimates in the context of IFRS 17 and we provide R code to reproduce these methods on representative data.

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25Apr
Online webinarGeneral Insurance Spring Conference 2023 - Neural network models

General Insurance Spring Conference

In this presentation, we will develop a reserving model step-by-step. Starting with a simple chain ladder, we gradually introduce incremental improvements, culminating with a probabilistic, mixture density, neural network on individual claims.

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24Apr
Online webinarSessional meeting by the Pensions Commutation Rate Working Party

Findings from the Commutation Rate Research Working Party’s investigation on appropriate allowances to make when setting commutation rates.

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