New edition of The European Actuary

Issue 28, December 2021 of The European Actuary has been published.

Featured Articles:

  • Setting targets for the AAE | Interview with Mária Kamenárová
  • Measuring mortality using 2020/2021 data | by Matthew Edwards and Steve Bale
  • Solvency II: an important step towards an amended framework | by Siegbert Baldauf
  • News from the Italian Actuarial Congress – Evolving the actuarial manager to a global manager | by Giampaolo Crenca
  • Why are people struggling with mental health conditions being denied cover? | by Esko Kivisaari
  • A continuously developing profession in challenging time | by Jennifer Baker
  • InsurTech: how to build a new insurance product? The example of Gaia, a London based start-up | by Floriane Moy
  • Life and non-life insurance are the two sides of the Covid-19 coin | by Romain Durand

 

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Winner of the prize for the best AAE slogan

As communicated in the AAE General Assembly held on 1 October 2021, the new AAE Slogan is: advising, achieving, engaging.

 

Winner of the prize for the best slogan is Henning Wergen, who is a member of the ECA 2022 organising team.

Henning has generously decided to donate his prize to anyone of the members who took the effort to submit a slogan proposal.

 

A prize draw performed by Mária Kamenárová, chairperson of the AAE, resulted in Elina Tilta-Gerika (Latvia) to be awarded this prize. The AAE Board generously extended this prize to not only include a free ticket to ECA2022, but also to reimburse travel and hotel costs.

Elina will be contacted to make the appropriate arrangements.

 

Henning received a nice box of Belgian chocolate as thanks for his generous donation from Mária Kamenárová.

 

 

How to Eat an Elephant – on the insurability of a pandemic

Esko Kivisaari
Past Chairperson AAE
Chairperson AAE Advisory Panel
Chairperson AAE Artificial Intelligence/Data Science Working Group

 

Desmond Tutu once wisely said that “there is only one way to eat an elephant: a bite at a time.” What he meant by this is that everything in life that seems daunting, overwhelming, and even impossible can be accomplished gradually by taking on just a little at a time.

 

The consequences of the current Covid-19 pandemic are huge and they dwarf most elephants. The number of human tragedies is immense although insurers seem to get along with the consequences in life and death. A different issue is business interruption where most existing policies do not cover the losses. A good question is whether it would be possible to extend business interruption cover in such a way that also situations like this would be covered.

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