2024 Australasian Actuarial Education and Research Symposium
AAERS is a prestigious international conference bringing together a diverse range of researchers, educators, industry practitioners, and research students from across the world.
This annual gathering is a platform to share cutting-edge research and insights while fostering discussions on actuarial education and research advancements.
Monash Business School’s Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics is pleased to host the 2024 AAERS at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus on behalf of the Actuaries Institute. The Actuaries Institute represents, educates, and connects a growing community of Australian actuaries within Australia and globally.
This year's AAERS promises an enriching experience with prominent invited speakers who are experts in their fields, plus presentations covering a wide spectrum of topics within actuarial research and education. Attendees can look forward to gaining valuable knowledge, exchanging ideas, and networking with peers in this dynamic and collaborative environment.
Registration to attend this conference will open shortly.
For further information or general inquiries, please contact the chair of the organising committee, A/Prof Dan Zhu, at dan.zhu@monash.edu
Keynote speakers
Professor Qihe Tang, University of New South Wales
Prof Tang joined the UNSW Business School in 2017. Prior to that, he worked at the University of Iowa, where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2012 and conferred an Endowed Chair in 2014. His expertise centres on extreme value theory for insurance, finance, and risk management. Recently, he has been working on the following topics: catastrophe risk, systemic risk, uncertainty, and climate change. Professor Tang currently serves as an Editor of the journal Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and an Associate Editor of several other journals. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. At UNSW, he holds the positions of
Research Director of the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies and Co-Director of the Innovations in Risk, Insurance and Superannuation (IRIS) Knowledge Hub.
Professor Wai Sum Chan, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Prof Chan graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 with a major in accounting and a minor in statistics. He pursued a doctorate in applied statistics at the Fox School of Business, Temple University (Philadelphia, US), receiving his PhD in 1989. He qualified as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1995. Prof Chan held teaching and research posts at the National University of Singapore, the University of Waterloo, The University of Hong Kong, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining HSUHK. Prof Chan’s research interests include health care financing, actuarial modelling, and financial econometrics. He has had over 110 scientific articles published in scholarly journals.
Professor Phillip Yam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Yam received his BSc (ActuarSc) and MPhil degree from the University of Hong Kong, a Master of Advanced Studies in Mathematics from University of Cambridge, and a DPhil from University of Oxford. He is a fulltime Professor at the Department of Statistics, Director of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Science programme, and Assistant Dean (Education) of Faculty of Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been appointed as a research fellow in the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics at the University of Bonn, and a Visiting Professor in both the Department of Statistics at Columbia University in the City of New York and Naveen Jindal School of Management at University of Texas at Dallas. He has published more than a hundred journal articles in actuarial science, applied mathematics, control theory and engineering, data analytics, financial mathematics and economics, operations management, probability and stochastic analysis, and statistics. He also serves in editorial boards of representative journals including Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. Besides, he wrote the first ever monograph on mean field theory, and another on "Financial Data Analytics" recently published in Wiley Finance Series; one of his original research outputs Included in the latter book, “Comonotone-independence Bayes Classifier (CIBer)”, was also awarded a Silver Medal in the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2023.
Dr David Knox AM, Mercer
Dr Knox is a Senior Partner at Mercer and its national Leader for research and policy in Australia. He has been the actuary to several public sector superannuation plans and is the lead author of the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, now in its 16th year.
Before joining Mercer, Dr Knox was at PricewaterhouseCoopers and prior to that he was the Foundation Professor of Actuarial Studies at The University of Melbourne. In his two decades in academia, he acted as a consultant to a range of financial organisations, in both the private and public sectors, specialising in pensions and retirement incomes. He has spoken and written widely in this area and has served on many Government and industry committees.
Dr Knox was an independent Board member of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority from 1998 to 2003 and President of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia in 2000. He was appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in 2023 for significant service to the financial sector.
Program
Event Details
- Date:
- 20 November 2024 at 8:00 am – 21 November 2024 at 2:00 pm
- Venue:
- The Pavilion, Level 8, Building H, Monash University Caulfield Campus, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East VIC 3145
- Categories:
- Alumni; Econometrics and Business Statistics; General
Description
AAERS is a prestigious international conference bringing together a diverse range of researchers, educators, industry practitioners, and research students from across the world.
This annual gathering is a platform to share cutting-edge research and insights while fostering discussions on actuarial education and research advancements.
Monash Business School’s Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics is pleased to host the 2024 AAERS at Monash University’s Caulfield Campus on behalf of the Actuaries Institute. The Actuaries Institute represents, educates, and connects a growing community of Australian actuaries within Australia and globally.
This year's AAERS promises an enriching experience with prominent invited speakers who are experts in their fields, plus presentations covering a wide spectrum of topics within actuarial research and education. Attendees can look forward to gaining valuable knowledge, exchanging ideas, and networking with peers in this dynamic and collaborative environment.
Registration to attend this conference will open shortly.
For further information or general inquiries, please contact the chair of the organising committee, A/Prof Dan Zhu, at dan.zhu@monash.edu
Keynote speakers
Professor Qihe Tang, University of New South Wales
Prof Tang joined the UNSW Business School in 2017. Prior to that, he worked at the University of Iowa, where he was promoted to Full Professor in 2012 and conferred an Endowed Chair in 2014. His expertise centres on extreme value theory for insurance, finance, and risk management. Recently, he has been working on the following topics: catastrophe risk, systemic risk, uncertainty, and climate change. Professor Tang currently serves as an Editor of the journal Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, and an Associate Editor of several other journals. He is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. At UNSW, he holds the positions of
Research Director of the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies and Co-Director of the Innovations in Risk, Insurance and Superannuation (IRIS) Knowledge Hub.
Professor Wai Sum Chan, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Prof Chan graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1984 with a major in accounting and a minor in statistics. He pursued a doctorate in applied statistics at the Fox School of Business, Temple University (Philadelphia, US), receiving his PhD in 1989. He qualified as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries in 1995. Prof Chan held teaching and research posts at the National University of Singapore, the University of Waterloo, The University of Hong Kong, and The Chinese University of Hong Kong before joining HSUHK. Prof Chan’s research interests include health care financing, actuarial modelling, and financial econometrics. He has had over 110 scientific articles published in scholarly journals.
Professor Phillip Yam, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Prof. Yam received his BSc (ActuarSc) and MPhil degree from the University of Hong Kong, a Master of Advanced Studies in Mathematics from University of Cambridge, and a DPhil from University of Oxford. He is a fulltime Professor at the Department of Statistics, Director of Quantitative Finance and Risk Management Science programme, and Assistant Dean (Education) of Faculty of Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been appointed as a research fellow in the Hausdorff Research Institute for Mathematics at the University of Bonn, and a Visiting Professor in both the Department of Statistics at Columbia University in the City of New York and Naveen Jindal School of Management at University of Texas at Dallas. He has published more than a hundred journal articles in actuarial science, applied mathematics, control theory and engineering, data analytics, financial mathematics and economics, operations management, probability and stochastic analysis, and statistics. He also serves in editorial boards of representative journals including Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. Besides, he wrote the first ever monograph on mean field theory, and another on "Financial Data Analytics" recently published in Wiley Finance Series; one of his original research outputs Included in the latter book, “Comonotone-independence Bayes Classifier (CIBer)”, was also awarded a Silver Medal in the 48th International Exhibition of Inventions Geneva in 2023.
Dr David Knox AM, Mercer
Dr Knox is a Senior Partner at Mercer and its national Leader for research and policy in Australia. He has been the actuary to several public sector superannuation plans and is the lead author of the Mercer CFA Institute Global Pension Index, now in its 16th year.
Before joining Mercer, Dr Knox was at PricewaterhouseCoopers and prior to that he was the Foundation Professor of Actuarial Studies at The University of Melbourne. In his two decades in academia, he acted as a consultant to a range of financial organisations, in both the private and public sectors, specialising in pensions and retirement incomes. He has spoken and written widely in this area and has served on many Government and industry committees.
Dr Knox was an independent Board member of Australian Prudential Regulation Authority from 1998 to 2003 and President of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia in 2000. He was appointed a Member (AM) of the Order of Australia in 2023 for significant service to the financial sector.
Program