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IAALS colloquium 2017
Speakers at the IAALS colloquium 2017 Members of the UB participated in the organization and the sessions of the IAALS colloquium held in Barcelona, 23-24 October. LIFE Colloquium 2017 is the annual conference organized by the International Association of Actuaries-Life Section. This conference was devoted to “Long-Term Saving in an Ageing World”. Keynote speakers
ZURICH EXPERIENCE 2017
ZURICH EXPERIENCE 2017 Sep, 21-22 2017: the students of the MA in Actuarial and Finance Science who won the fourth edition of “The Challenge Program”, visited the headquarters of Zurich Insurance Group (Switzerland) as part of the ‘Zurich experience’ award. Three of the four members of the winner team, Nuria Amat, Carla De Pedro and
Quantification of risk, industrial PhD
Quantification of risk, industrial PhD Sept 7, 2017: Alemar E. Padilla-Barreto is interviewed in the YouTube channel of the Industrial PhD program. Together with the Chief Pricing Officer of Zurich Insurance in Spain (Mr. Jordi Margarit) and the two supervisors, they describe the main challenges in the completition of an industrial PhD thesis. The video
Event: signature of the agreement 2017-2021
Zurich funded chair at UB for research, actuarial education and innovation Jul 18 2017: The Rector of the University of Barcelona, Prof. Joan Elias, and the CEO of Zurich Spain, Mr. Vicente Cancio signed the extension of the Chair that the insurance company has with the research group Riskcenter of the UB. The objective
Round table: How to promote long-term saving among millennials
How to promote long-term saving among millennials May 9 2017: Tuesday, May 9th, the round table conducted by Clara Armengol (Director of Bancsabadell Pensions) will take place in classroom 112 of the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Barcelona-UB), from 19.30h to 21h. The experts participating on the round table are
Actuarial Day 2017
March 17, 2017: UBZurich Chair celebrated the “Actuarial Day 2017”, an event where the students of the Master in Actuarial and Finance Science from UB had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the fourth edition of “The Challenge Program” with participants from the Master program. Session outline The event was opened by
Kick-off: The Challenge Project (Fourth Edition)
Feb. 07 2017: On Tuesday, February 7th, the Kick-off of the 4th edition of the Challenge Project (year 2017) took place in classroom 109 of the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Barcelona). The experts from Human Resources and Underwriting GI of Zurich Spain are in charge of this new activity. 18 students of
Actuarial Day 2016
March 18, 2016: UBZurich Chair celebrated the "Actuarial Day 2016", an event where the students of the Master in Actuarial Science from UB had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the third edition of "The Challenge Program” with participants from the Master program. The event was opened by Mr. Carlos Esteban (Director of
Workshop on Economic Assessment on Bodily Injuries in Motor Claims
The Workshop on Economic Assessment on Bodily Injuries in Motor Claims was held as part of the Barcelona Insurance and Risk Management Summer School 2015, organized by Riskcenter at UB. More than 40 participants attended the sessions on law reforms in Spain. More information can be provided about the event.
Jaume Belles-Sampera defended his PhD Thesis.
Jaume Belles-Sampera, PhD in Business, defended his thesis on quantitative risk assessment, aggregation functions and capital allocation problems. External members of the jury were Prof. Jose Maria Sarabia (Univ. Cantabria), Prof. Jan Dhaene (Univ. Leuven, KUL) and Prof. Andreas Tsanakas (City University London). He proposed ways to identify attitudes in new risk measures. Implementations in