CORONA SPECIAL
Our partner institutions from the international actuarial community present the following webcasts and recordings about Corona and its implications on the insurance market.
Stay tuned for regular updates!
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Epidemiological Update COVID-19: End of Pandemic Already in Spring 2021?
Added 0 100 ViewsIn many countries, the worst now seems to be over or do we face a second more challenging wave? In this web session, Florian Gomez, Head of Global Methodology (L&H) of PartnerRe, and Achim Regenauer, Chief Medical Officer present the new insights (e.g
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Is Knowledge Power or Ignorance Bliss? Information, Behaviour, and COVID-19
Added 1 607 ViewsWe like to believe that more information is empowering and leads to greater well-being. But does it?COVID-19 is the first pandemic of the information age. People today can access high-quality information from a range of sources, meaning it has never been
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Behavioural Science: Why We Seek the Information We Do and How That Changes Our Behaviour
Added 1 261 ViewsFrom online symptom checkers to direct-to-consumer genetics tests, individuals increasingly must choose what information to seek and how to act upon that information. More information should be empowering and lead to greater well-being. But does it? This
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Evolution of the Purchase Journey: Will Insurance Distribution Bounce Back or ‘Bounce Forward’ in Re
Added 0 159 ViewsWhile insurers, regulators, and governments focus on the downside financial risks caused by the pandemic, COVID-19’s role in the consumer experience has received less attention. How are insurers adapting their business models in response to COVID-19
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Changing Consumer Behaviour and Digital Distribution in the COVID-19 World
Added 0 187 ViewsLearn how consumers' purchasing behaviour is evolving in the COVID-19 world, and what we can expect next. This video is part of the RGA Knowledge Day!
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COVID-19 at the Crossroads: Where Business Meets Science
Added 0 115 ViewsExplore the science of COVID-19 and investigate the insurance industry implications. This video is part of the RGA Knowledge Day!
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SARS-COV2: Lessons Learned and Looking into the Future
Added 0 187 ViewsThe current pandemic has placed technology and digitalization at the core of insurance company operations. Yet this evolving environment is also one where solid, effective, and dynamic underwriting is essential to successfully traversing these times. This
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How Has COVID-19 Influenced the Insurance Industry, and What Does This Mean for Your Business?
Added 0 202 ViewsIn this one-hour session, four leaders from RGA Asia share their views from different, yet integrated, perspectives to help insurers make sense of the evolving global pandemic, covering the following themes: General medical and epidemiological overview of
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Medical Mayhem
Added 1 59 ViewsExplore medical insights and insurance impacts around COVID-19. This video is part of the RGA Knowledge Day!
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Mental Health in a Time of COVID-19
Added 0 70 ViewsThe Novel Coronavirus (CoViD-19) represents one of the most recent pandemics in the last 100 years. 11 months into the pandemic, the reality of life being irrevocably changed is dawning on the world, but the effects of these sudden and drastic shifts are
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Uncertainty and Personal Risk Type
Added 0 44 ViewsOne important element that influences our daily activities, decision-making and predisposition towards risk, is our risk-taking nature. For instance, are you a person that likes to do things by the book or do you experience rules and planning as a burden.
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The Impact of Covid-19 on Future Higher-Age Mortality
Added 0 95 ViewsThis presentation will look at Covid-19 mortality experience (mainly in the 50+ age group) and what impact this might have on future mortality. We will first look at how Covid-19 mortality experience compares with all-cause mortality using English data on
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SAV Bahnhofskolloquium | Einführung in die mathematische Epidemiologie
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Welche wirtschaftlichen Folgen hat die Coronapandemie?
Added 0 183 ViewsCorona hat Deutschland und Europa in die schwerste Wirtschaftskrise seit dem 2. Weltkrieg gestüzt. Doch wie schnell kann sich die Wirtschaft aus dieser Krise befreien und wie werden sich die Zinsmärkte kurz- und mittelfristig entwickeln? Dar&uum
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Gibt es durch Corona eine Übersterblichkeit?
Added 0 235 ViewsIn seinem Vortrag bei der e-Herbsttagung von DAV und DGVFM gibt Dr. Georg Thiel (Präsident des Statistischen Bundesamts) einen Einblick in die umfangreichen Erkenntnisse seiner Behörde zur Coronapandemie. Dabei ging er auch der Frage nach, ob es
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Deutsche Wirtschaft fordert besseren Pandemie-Versicherungsschutz
Added 0 113 ViewsDr. Alexander Mahnke (Vorstandsvorsitzender des Gesamtverbands der versicherungsnehmenden Wirtschaft) skizziert in seinem Vortrag bei der e-Herbsttagung 2020 von DAV und DGVFM die Erwartungen der deutschen Wirtschaft an den künftigen Versicherungssch
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Welche Folgen hat Corona für die Private Krankenversicherung?
Added 0 149 ViewsIn seinem Vortrag für die e-Herbsttagung von DAV und DGVFM geht Dr. Ralf Kantak (Vorstandsvorsitzender des PKV-Verbands) auf die coronabedingten Herausforderungen der Privaten Krankenversicherung ein. Dabei unterstreicht er auch den Reformbedarf bei
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Prospects for COVID-19 Medicines (Revisited)
Added 0 169 ViewsCOVID-19 has been a major disruptor to global healthcare systems and has had significant impacts on global economies. This online presentation will consider the progress to date, prospects and timelines for vaccines and other medicines to prevent and/or t
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Model Risk in the Time of Covid-19
Added 0 165 ViewsOne could argue that in the history of the world, it has never before depended on models as much for life and death decision-making as it has during the last couple of months as a result of COVID-19. Pandemic or epidemiological models have heavily informe
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Impact Investing in a Post Covid-19 World
Added 0 95 ViewsImpact investors have crucial roles to play in responding to the COVID-19 crisis and helping communities build resiliency across the globe. Importantly, COVID-19 has presented opportunities to adjust and maximise impact activity to respond to the needs of
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Caught in the Perfect Storm, Do We Throw a Life Line to Current Income Protection Products or Rather
Added 0 40 ViewsIncome protection products face an uncertain future. Caught in the perfect storm of a pandemic tsunami, economic jagged rocks, leaks in the once water-tight design and a probable retrenchment flood, the future of this product as the life boat of South Afr
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Lessons Learned in Modelling Covid-19
Added 0 100 ViewsThis presentation will discuss the development and evolution of the ASSA Covid-19 model. We will discuss dealing with risk and uncertainty in the modelling process and the challenges of widely ranging views. By the time of the convention we will know with
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Covid-19: Are We There Yet?
Added 0 39 ViewsWith financial markets in turmoil, many economies on the brink of failure, social distancing the new norm and the foot shake gaining traction, more and more companies are asking the dreaded question – Are we there yet? This presentation aims to asse
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Modelling Covid-19 in South Africa at a Provincial Level
Added 0 36 ViewsThis paper documents a model of the COVID-19 epidemic in South Africa. Mobility data is used to model the reproduction number of the COVID-19 epidemic over time using a Bayesian hierarchical model. This is achieved by adapting the work in by Imperial Coll
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COVID-19 Mortality Rates by Age and Gender
Added 2 568 ViewsCOVID-19 appears to be much more fatal for men than women. Does the mortality difference vary by age? How does it compare to the well-established gender difference in all-cause mortality? Are there variations by country? This webcast highlights standardiz
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Challenges of COVID-19 Mortality Data
Added 3 530 ViewsCOVID-19 mortality data presents several challenges, and it is difficult to compare data efficiently between different countries, particularly when there are issues with differences in data sources and formats, the availability and completeness of the dat
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Update on Insurance Topics
Added 1 263 ViewsSolvency IIThe current review initiated by a request from the European Commission can lead to significant changes of the Solvency II framework. Because of the Covid-19 pandemic the due date for EIOPA’s opinion on the Solvency II – review 2020
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Managing and Growing Your Firm in an Era of Pandemic and Lockdown
Added 0 90 ViewsThe Webinar will provide insight into managing your practice in this new environment of Pandemic and Lockdown including how to market your services, communications with current and prospective clients, cyber risk for the smaller organization, Human Resour
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GAS Event Session 4: Do Actuaries Need to Reinvent Themselves in a Post-COVID19- world?
Added 0 392 ViewsSession 4 of the event by the Gulf Actuarial Society and the Financial Academy. This talk highlights some of the threats to the institutions that actuaries advise and therefore the challenges to actuarial work in 2020 and going forward. This includes exam
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Excess mortality in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic
Added 1 339 ViewsA new video by the Society of Actuaries in Ireland (SAI) on Excess mortality in Ireland during the COVID-19 pandemic. For further information please see theSAI event page: https://web.actuaries.ie/events/2020/08/webinar-excess-mortality-ireland-during-cov
