CERA Education
The CERA qualification is open to all fully qualified actuaries who want to deepen their knowledge and expertise in the field of enterprise risk management (ERM). CERA was established in 2009, today over 4,000 qualified experts are entitled to use the credential. 27 actuarial associations around the world are CERA member associations.
The CERA credential’s mission is to advance the field of enterprise risk management worldwide by providing the preeminent qualification combining technical rigour, practical understanding and professional regulation.
The defining characteristics of the CERA credential as offered by the European Actuarial Academy are:
- Provides the most comprehensive and rigorous training in ERM
- Is a fast-growing globally-recognised credential
- Combines a range of business and professional skills with the mathematics of finance and risk
- Equips risk management professionals to empower better business decisions and more profitable business development
- Has a wide range of applications in insurance and finance, and well beyond
- Is supported by actuarial associations worldwide
- Is recognised and transferable internationally
- Has a rigorous and advanced curriculum underpinned by actuarial science, with an emphasis on ERM and professionalism
- Offers career choices outside the traditional actuarial markets
The Seminar ‘Processes in ERM’
This module deals with the challenges of implementing ERM Processes. It includes requirements on ERM Processes and the discussion of best practices. It will be presented how to define an organisation’s risk strategy, risk appetite, risk tolerances and limits. We discuss how business strategy influences risk strategy and show their necessary interaction. We demonstrate the close relationship between ERM and Value and Risk Based Management and show how financial and other risks influence the selection of strategy. We show how ERM can be appropriately imbedded in an entity’s strategic planning and discuss the Own Risk and Solvency Assessment. We present the application of an internal risk control process. In the context of ERM reports to different stakeholders are required (management, supervisory body, regulators, public disclosure). We give an overview of the different reports and the main contents. Further we show examples of communication processes in the context of ERM. During the seminar we present case studies to discuss the main subjects.
Organised by the EAA - European Actuarial Academy GmbH in cooperation with the Instituto de Actuarios Españoles.