Archive

  • Actuaries must find sweet spot of pricing for risk and societal ends

    11 July 2023

    DAV actuary Frank Schiller warns pricing for social acceptance alone can lead to anti-selection bias

  • Lutz Wilhelmy to chair Actuarial Association of Europe

    10 October 2022

  • Covid-19 deaths still "a long way" from Spanish flu scenario

    14 December 2021

    Germany's excess mortality in pandemic revealed by Destatis

  • German actuaries review the Review of Solvency II

    22 November 2021

    Dissecting documents with a fine-tooth comb is natural for actuaries. After applying one to the European Commission's proposals for Solvency II reform, German Association of Actuaries board member Frank Schiller spoke to David Walker

  • German life insurers must wait to judge Covid-19's true impact

    25 January 2021

    Leading actuary warns it's premature to discount Covid's effect

  • The politics of pandemics

    31 December 2020

    Combatting the next pandemic will take a lot more than vaccines, according to Frank Schiller, a board member of Germany's actuarial association. To cover the risk, insurers will need a deft understanding and the ability to work closely with the political world, as Schiller explains to David Walker

  • DAV's Frank Schiller on the Solvency II review

    04 May 2020

    Germany's actuarial association has some strong opinions on how the EU's regulation needs to be reformed - or left untouched - as board member Frank Schiller explains to David Walker

  • No need for new models for coronavirus, says top German actuary

    14 February 2020

    MunichRe chief life/health actuary says Spanish flu still the benchmark of one-in-200-year event