SCOR supports actuarial science by presenting Actuarial Awards in seven countries in 2018 - Seite 2

 

On July 30 in Singapore, Eric Pooi, Managing Director of SCOR's Asia-Pacific Hub, presented the Actuarial prize for Asia-Pacific in conjunction with the IRFRC (Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre) during the annual IRFRC 2018 Conference. The 2018 winners were Martin Eling and Kwangmin Jung, of the University of St Gallen, for their article, "Risk aggregation in non-life insurance: Standard models vs internal models".

             

• On October 12 in Stockholm, Sweden, Svein Børre Solvang, CEO of SCOR Sweden Re, and Malcolm Newman, Managing Director of SCOR's EMEA Hub, presented the Actuarial prize for Sweden during the annual SCOR Sweden Re conference. The 2018 prize was awarded to Masar Al-Mosawi of Länsförsäkringar, for his dissertation, "An Extension of Generalized Linear Models for Dependent Frequency and Severity".

             

• On November 14 in Madrid, Spain, the Actuarial Awards for Spain & Portugal were presented by Miguel Alferieff, CEO of SCOR Global Life for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and
  Anne-Marie Cical, SCOR Global P&C Market Director, in conjunction with the Actuarial Institutes of Spain and Portugal. The 2018 winners were Inmaculada Peña Sánchez of ICADE Business School, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid (1^st prize), for her dissertation, "Tarificación de microseguros: una aplicación del modelo Tweedie" (Micro Insurance Pricing: an application of the Tweedie model) and Jorge Segura Gisbert, José Antonio Alvarez Jareño, José Pavía Miralles and Patricia García Torres of the University of Valencia (2^nd prize), for their dissertation, "Detección del riesgo de fuga de clientes de una entidad aseguradora mediante algoritmos de machine learning" (Lapse risk detection in a life insurance company based on machine learning algorithms).
   
• On November 20 in London, U.K., Denis Kessler, Chairman & CEO of SCOR, and Chris Daykin, former head of the U.K. Government Actuary's Department (GAD), presented the U.K. Actuarial Awards. For P&C, the prize went to Peter Watson of the Cass Business School, City University London, for his dissertation, "A graph theoretic approach to the derivation of property loss curves from first principles". For Life, the winner was Michael McCrea of Queens University Belfast, for his dissertation, "A Conceptual Model for Pricing Health and Life Insurance Using Wearable Technology".