Organised by the EAA - European Actuarial Academy GmbH

The recent past has been dominated by more defensive topics such as risk management and new solvency regimes. Partially and sometimes the core service of an insurance company, the product, was not in the focus of the discussions as it could have been. Actually, it is the product and all its related features and processes that bears and generates the risks and in the end it is the product that generates new business and profits. Knowledge on products and their impact on different levels and dimensions is essential!

The seminar focuses on the topic "life insurance".

The seminar is suited for actuaries, actuarial trainees and professionals who are directly or indirectly involved in product development (projects) or who have touch points with product development and products, such as product development actuaries, product managers, risk managers, asset managers, marketing managers, actuarial controller, supervisors and auditors.

During this seminar, you will not need a laptop.

The aim of this 2-day seminar is to present a broad overview on product and product development topics and to deepen some selected topics. It focuses on core aspects such as design, investments, implementation, controlling and profitability. Besides that the seminar also covers strategical considerations and soft skills which are elementary and key to success for running a project and completing an implementation of a strategy effectively and successfully. 

The language of the seminar will be English.

Davina Armellini
Davina Armellini is a freelance consultant focusing on portfolio and product definition especially for life business in line with stabile software solutions. Before that she worked for consulting firms focusing on setting up new product management systems and their actuarial calculation component for primary insurers as well as reinsurers. She graduated from Ulm University (diploma in Mathematics and Economics) in 2005 and is a member of the German Actuarial Association (DAV) since 2008.

Frank Genheimer
Frank Genheimer is Managing Director and Partner with New Insurance Business GmbH (St. Gallen, Switzerland), a consulting company that offers strategic and tactical business and management consulting for insurance companies and their cooperation partners. The main focus of his work is set on (disruptive) innovations, new business strategy, products & related investments as well as cooperation management. In addition, he is a regular speaker and moderator at events, seminars and workshops throughout the financial service industry. Before he started his career as consultant, Frank Genheimer worked within European life insurance industry for about eleven years. He is member of the German Actuarial Association (DAV), the Swiss Actuarial Association (SAV) and the German Association of Insurance and Financial Mathematics (DGVFM) as well as member of Actuarial Sciences for Africa (ASA).

Dr. Frank Schiller
Frank Schiller is Head of Actuarial & Pricing for Life Reinsurance at Munich Re Munich. Before that he worked in primary insurance and reinsurance in various roles in risk management and actuarial, latest as Chief Risk Officer at Swiss Life Germany. Frank Schiller studied Mathematics in Erlangen (Germany) and did his PhD thesis in stochastics. He is member of the German Actuarial Association (DAV), the Swiss Actuarial Association (SAV) and the German Association of Insurance and Financial Mathematics (DGVFM), taking active roles in “Ausschuss Enterprise Risk Management” and its workingroups and in “AG Biometrie”.

Dr. Axel Wachsmann
CV will follow soon.