Tim gave a seminar on "Modeling and forecasting mortality with economic growth: a multi-population approach". He reviewed the existing literature on mortality modeling of multiple populations, which focuses mainly on extrapolating the past mortality trends and summarizes these trends by one or more common latent factors. In his paper, they propose a multi-population stochastic mortality
Feb. 07 2017: On Tuesday, February 7th, the Kick-off of the 4th edition of the Challenge Project (year 2017) took place in classroom 109 of the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Barcelona). The experts from Human Resources and Underwriting GI of Zurich Spain are in charge of this new activity. 18 students of
Session outline The event was opened by Mercedes Sanz, chair of Insurance and Pensions in Fundacion Mapfre. After, Gregorio Gil de Rozas, president of the Institute of Spanish Actuaries-IAE, spoke about the legal protection of the actuarial profession in Spain. Then, Eduardo Sánchez, general assistant director of actuarial function in Mapfre, spoke about the opportunities
Feb. 09 2016: On Tuesday, February 9th, the Kick-off of the 3rd edition of the Challenge Project (year 2016) took place in classroom 102 of the Faculty of Economics and Business (University of Barcelona). The experts from Human Resources and Life Staff of Zurich Spain are in charge of this new activity. 14 students of
September 23, 2015: UB and Zurich Insurance gave the diplomas to the students of the first year of the Insurance Leaders of the Future programme (ILF). The CEO of the Zurich Group in Spain, Mr. Julián López Zaballos gave the diplomas at a ceremony held in the Aula Magna of the UB Historic Building. The
Apr. 10. 2015: UBZurich Chair celebrated the "Actuarial Day", an event where the students of the Master in Actuarial Science from UB had the opportunity to attend the closing session of the second edition of "The Challenge" program with participants from the Master program. During the ceremony students of the master presented the results obtained
Feb. 17 2015: Mr. J. Gorina (Zurich Spain Human Resource Department) conducted a workshop about main skills related to speaking in public. The first part of the course was held in classroom 103 (Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Barcelona), from 19:00 to 21:00. On 17th March, the second part of the course will
Feb. 10 2015: On Tuesday, February 10th, the Kick-off of the 2nd edition of the Challenge Project (year 2015) took place in classroom 103 of the Faculty of Economics and Bussiness (University of Barcelona). People from Human Resources and Pricing Staffs of Zurich Spain are in charge of this new activity. 20 students of the
Oct. 16 2014: The UBZurich Chair organizes the 1st annual conference by professor Jerònia Pons (Faculty of Economics and Business Sciences at the University of Seville) with a lecture on “Zurich, 130 years in the Spanish Insurance Industry [Zurich, 130 años en el Seguro Español]” at 18:30h in the Paranymph of the University of Barcelona
Oct 20. 2014: The Annual Conference of the Chair UBZurich was a celebration of 130 years of Zurich Spain. Attendees enjoyed a lecture by Prof. Jerònia Pons at the Paranymph of the University of Barcelona last Thursday. The lecture went over the history of the Zurich Insurance Group in Spain, which was established
