2020
Geoffrey Heywood Prize 2020
Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab) and Ron Richman (QED Actuaries, South Africa) were awarded the "Geoffrey Heywood Prize 2020" of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries IFoA for their paper "A neural network extension of the Lee-Carter model to multiple populations".
Japanese Translation of "Financial Modeling, Actuarial Valuation and Solvency in Insurance"
The monograph "Financial Modeling, Actuarial Valuation and Solvency in Insurance" by Michael Merz and RiskLab's Mario Wüthrich was translated and published in Japanese.
The Actuary, IFoA, June 2020: THE PROXY PROBLEM
If we want to avoid discrimination in insurance pricing, we need to be able to take protected characteristics into account, say Mathias Lindholm, Ronald Richman, Andreas Tsanakas and RiskLab's Mario Wüthrich.
Andrea Gabrielli receives "Spring 2020 VMP Assistant Award"
The Mathematicians and Physicists Association (VMP) of ETH has awarded the "Spring 2020 VMP Assistant Award" to RiskLab's PhD student Andrea Gabrielli and eight further student teaching assistants from the Departments of Mathematics and Physics. Congratulations Andrea!
1st Prize at "Risks Best Paper Awards 2019"
Mario Wüthrich and his PhD student Andrea Gabrielli received the 1st prize for their paper "An Individual Claims History Simulation Machine".