Nov, 22 2017: The VidaCaixa-UB insurance award is an annual prize given to the best master thesis in the Master of Actuarial and Financial Sciences of the University of Barcelona. The winner thesis in the 10th edition was ‘Big Data of social networks: Personality traits as an explanatory variable in GLM models for insurance claim
Helena Chuliá, member of the research group Riskcenter, has been awarded with a research grant from the Ramón Areces Foundation. The research project, entitled "Good and bad uncertainty propagation across the global economy" has been selected, jointly with 11 additional projects, from more than 80 proposals. The project will last for two years and will
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 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
PhD in Statistics on the joint modeling of health insurance September 26, 2017: Xavier Piulachs Lozada-Benavente defended his thesis. Jury members were Drs. Jordi Ocaña (president), Lupe Gómez-Melis (Universitata Politècnica de Catalunya) and Cécile Proust-Lima (Université de Bordeaux,). Dr. Piulachs is now moving forward to a post-doc position at the Université Catholique de
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
PhD in Business on the heterogeneity of mortality and its impact on welfare July 21, 2017: Estefania Alaminos Aguilera presented her thesis. Jury members were Drs. Catalina Bolancé (president), Francisco Escribano (University of Castilla-La Mancha) and Elisa Chuliá (University of Valencia). Dr. Alaminos is now working at the International Labor Organization in
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
Miguel Santolino participates in the conference ‘Challenges of the actuarial profession qualification’ organized by the Catalan Actuarial Association Session outline May 17, 2017. Antonio Ferreiro (Deloitte Canada) and Miguel Santolino (Riskcenter-UB) spoke about the challenges of the insurance sector in next years and how the actuarial profession should face these challenges. They pointed out that
Big data Telematics towards Usage based Insurance This workshop (May 4 2017) is a meeting to discuss innovation in telematics from the perspective of insurers and manufacturers, as well as the design of public policies aimed to reduce accidents on the road. For more information, see the preliminary programme. Link to the
