SCOR supports actuarial science by presenting Actuarial Awards in seven countries in 2018 - Seite 3

• On December 11 in Milan, Italy, Umberto Gavazzi, Deputy CEO of the Reinsurance business unit at SCOR Global P&C, and Alessandra Zorza, Underwriting Manager for SCOR Global Life in Italy, presented the 2018 Italian awards. These went to Francesco Della Corte of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, and Nicole Sbisà of the University of Trieste, for their respective theses: "Il Life Underwriting Risk e l'utile demografico: un'analisi stocastica comparativa tra i principi local GAAP e la Market Consistent Valuation" (Life Underwriting Risk and the profits linked to demographic changes: a comparative stochastic analysis between Local GAAP and Market Consistent Valuation) and "La valutazione dei contratti assicurativi secondo IFRS 17 e confronto con Solvency II" (The evaluation of insurance policies under IFRS 17 and a comparison with Solvency II).

             

• On December 13 in Paris, France, Denis Kessler, Chairman & CEO of SCOR, and Philippe Trainar, Director of the SCOR Corporate Foundation for Science, presented the 2018 Actuarial Awards for France, in conjunction with the French Institute of Actuaries. Sarah Kaakai, of the CMAP-Ecole Polytechnique, received the Young Doctors' prize for her thesis, "Nouveaux paradigmes en dynamique de populations hétérogènes: Modélisation trajectorielle, agrégation, et données empiriques" (New paradigms in heterogeneous population dynamics: Pathwise modeling, Aggregation, and Empirical evidence). The Young Actuaries' prize was awarded to Rémi Gauville of EURIA for his dissertation, "Projection du ratio de solvabilité : des méthodes de machine learning pour contourner les contraintes opérationnelles de la méthode des SdS" (Projection of the solvability ratio: machine learning techniques to circumvent the operational constraints of the nested simulations method). Isaac Haik of ENSAE received a special mention for his dissertation, "Text mining et reconnaissance d'écriture appliqués à l'assurance" (Text mining and writing recognition applied to insurance).

             
To read and learn more about the award-winning dissertations and theses, visit SCOR's site devoted to the Group's support for actuarial science:
http://www.scor.com/en/careers/actuarial-prize/library-of-prizes.html

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