By Servaas Houben
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SERVAAS HOUBEN is actuarial manager IFRS 4 and IFRS 17 at Ergo Belgium. |
Servaas Houben takes a new look the classical prisoner’s dilemma and an application to COVID-19 vaccination.
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This article represents the opinion of the author, and not necessarily the opinion of the AAE.
This article also appeared on the UK Actuary.
This article was published in The European Actuary No. 27 – September 2021
AAE submitted a response to EIOPA’s Discussion paper on the Methodological Framework for Stress-Testing IORPs.
AAE’s submission can be found here.
By Ed Pudlowski
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ED PUDLOWSKI can be reached at Ed.Pudlowski@MorningStarActuarial.com |
American baseball player, Yogi Berra, once quipped ‘It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future’. The effect of the pandemic over the past 18 months have been most challenging for health care actuaries and it’s not expected to get easier to predict costs over the next 12-24 months.
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This article represents the opinion of the author, and not necessarily the opinion of the AAE.
This article was published in The European Actuary No. 27 – September 2021
By Kirsten Armstrong
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Until just a few months ago, most Australians thought they’d avoided the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. In March 2020, we closed our international borders and soon after instituted mandatory quarantine for returning Australians. A strategy of virus suppression and, in some states, elimination has been systematically pursued.
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This article represents the opinion of the author, and not necessarily the opinion of the AAE.
This article was published in The European Actuary No. 27 – September 2021
By Andrew Henning and David Kirk
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| ANDREW HENNING is an actuary focussing on non-life insurance and financial modelling with Milliman. |
DAVID KIRK is a principal and consulting actuary with Milliman in Africa, specialising in financial reporting, market entry, and mergers and acquisitions. |
The risk margins included in technical provisions for solvency reporting are not the same across different regulatory regimes.
This is true even where the underlying principles guiding the regulatory approach seems quite similar. Some of these differences are subtle, but others reflect a fundamentally different view on the purpose of the risk margin.
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This article represents the opinion of the authors, and not necessarily the opinion of the AAE.
This article was published in The European Actuary No. 27 – September 2021
By Ben Carr
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BEN CARR is analytics and capital modelling director at Aviva plc. |
The Paris Agreement came into force on 4 November 2016 and has been ratified by 185 countries to date. It aims to strengthen the global response to the threat of climate change by keeping global temperature rises to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels.
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This article represents the opinion of the author, and not necessarily the opinion of the AAE.
This article was published in The European Actuary No. 27 – September 2021
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Esko Kivisaari is the Immediate Past Chairperson at Actuarial Association of Europe. He sat down with Jennifer Baker to talk about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the industry. |
Watch the short impression of the recorded interview here.
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This article represents the opinion of the interviewee, and not necessarily the opinion of the AAE.
This article was published in The European Actuary No. 27 – September 2021
AAE submitted a response to EIOPA’s Consultation on technical advice on pension tracking services.
AAE’s submission can be found here.
AAE submitted a response to EIOPA’s Consultation on technical advice on the development of pension dashboards and the collection of pensions data.
AAE’s submission can be found here.
Issue 27, September 2021 of The European Actuary has been published.
The theme of this issue is Health/Pandemic.
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