Akur8 Academy

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Your global training and upskilling community for insurance pricing and reserving!

The Akur8 Academy offers a variety of training opportunities, including webinars, workshops, online games and conferences, all designed to help actuaries improve their skills and knowledge.
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Whether you're an experienced actuary or just starting out in your career, the Akur8 Academy is here to support you on your professional journey. Sign up for free today and become part of a vibrant and dynamic community of passionate actuaries!

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Upcoming Actuarial Trainings & events

From regulation to AI, the changing environment for insurance pricing

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Selecting and Applying Exposure Bases for Less-Obvious Cases

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Reserving Beyond the Numbers: Validating Your Narrative with Sensitivity Testing at Scale

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*Some activities can be accredited as Continuing Professional Development points with your local Actuarial Association.

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Akur8’s insurance pricing and reserving e-learning hub

We provide access to a wide range of resources, such as research papers, recorded webinars, and industry reports, to help our members stay informed and ahead of the curve.

Check out our latest replays of webinars related to insurance pricing and reserving, and download our research and position papers below.

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Insurance reserving

In or out? How to detect and respond to outliers in your loss reserving data

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Outliers present difficult questions to the reserving actuary. On the one hand, estimates may be highly sensitive to a single point. On the other, is it wise to discard observed data, however skewed?

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Insurance pricing

The Double Diamond Framework

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Join Thomas Holmes to see how product design's Double Diamond framework applies to actuarial decision-making, and what it means for the way your team solves complex insurance problems.

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Insurance pricing

AI At Scale: What Insurance Leaders Need to Know About Agentic Transformation

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The next phase of AI adoption will not be defined by standalone copilots, but by specialized agents embedded across critical business workflows. In this webinar, Akur8 will share how it reengineered its own operating model around AI, and what that journey reveals for insurance executives.

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Reports and white papers

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P&C Pricing

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English, French, Spanish, German and Portuguese

Monitoring and Updating Pricing Models in Production

Maintaining reliable and accurate pricing models is one of the cornerstones of sustainable insurance operations. While much attention is often given to building pricing models, another key challenge begins once the models are already deployed. Once in production, models face an evolving reality: an ever shifting market, new economic conditions, changes in customer behavior, etc. Over time, even the best-calibrated models will degrade in performance as the ground-truth reality begins to diverge from the assumptions that underpinned it. This white paper explores how and why model monitoring is essential for maintaining pricing accuracy and business value. It examines best practices for identifying and addressing model drift, the types of model updates insurers can perform, and how to ensure consistency between model evolution and pricing strategy. Finally, it highlights how Akur8’s platform supports this end-to-end process, providing actuaries and pricing teams with the visibility and flexibility needed to adapt confidently to changing market conditions.

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P&C Reserving

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Available in English, Spanish and French

Reserving Rewired: How Psychology, Process, and Software Innovation Intertwine to Redefine Modern Loss Reserving

Reserving Rewired explores how loss reserving is evolving beyond traditional technical methods into a more modern, collaborative, and innovation-driven discipline. The ebook examines how actuarial judgment, behavioral psychology, streamlined processes, and advanced software come together to improve reserving workflows, reduce friction, and support more confident decision-making. Designed for insurance professionals and actuarial teams, it offers a fresh perspective on how technology can enhance, rather than replace, human expertise in modern loss reserving.

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P&C Pricing

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A Modern Approach to Pricing for Lean Actuarial Teams

MGAs and regional carriers face the same pricing challenges as the big players, but without the big-team resources to match. This white paper lays out how lean actuarial teams can modernize their pricing operations around three core principles: transparency, scalability, and affordability, without a full system overhaul or enterprise-scale budget.

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Berücksichtigung der Inflation in der Tarifgestaltung und Reservierung in der Schaden-Unfallversicherung (Inflation in Pricing and Reserving)

German Actuarial Association (DAV) / Deutsche Aktuarvereinigung e.V. (DAV)

Deutsche Aktuarvereinigung e.V. (DAV), 2024

This report examines inflation's impact on property and casualty insurance, providing actuaries with insights and practical guidance for pricing and reserving.

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Generalized Semantic Regression using Contextual Embeddings

Heiko Wagner

The Big Data Blog, 2023

Learn how Generalized Semantic Regression with contextual embeddings is transforming predictive modeling in insurance, providing actuaries with greater accuracy and insights for better decision-making.

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Smoothness and Monotonicity Constraints for Neural Networks Using ICEnet

Ronald Richman, Chief Actuary, Old Mutual Insure, & Mario V. Wuthrich, Professor, RiskLab, ETH Zurich

SSRN, 2023

Discover ICEnet, a novel method for enforcing constraints in deep neural networks for actuarial tasks, bridging the gap between traditional GLMs and advanced neural models. Learn how ICEnet improves accuracy and maintains industry standards.

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Akur8 Academy

Your global training and upskilling community for insurance pricing and reserving!

Upcoming Actuarial Trainings & events

From regulation to AI, the changing environment for insurance pricing

Selecting and Applying Exposure Bases for Less-Obvious Cases

Reserving Beyond the Numbers: Validating Your Narrative with Sensitivity Testing at Scale

Akur8’s insurance pricing and reserving e-learning hub

Webinars replay

In or out? How to detect and respond to outliers in your loss reserving data

The Double Diamond Framework

AI At Scale: What Insurance Leaders Need to Know About Agentic Transformation

Reports and white papers

Monitoring and Updating Pricing Models in Production

Reserving Rewired: How Psychology, Process, and Software Innovation Intertwine to Redefine Modern Loss Reserving

A Modern Approach to Pricing for Lean Actuarial Teams

Recommended readings

Berücksichtigung der Inflation in der Tarifgestaltung und Reservierung in der Schaden-Unfallversicherung (Inflation in Pricing and Reserving)

Generalized Semantic Regression using Contextual Embeddings

Smoothness and Monotonicity Constraints for Neural Networks Using ICEnet

Stay up to date!

Sign up for Akur8 Academy

Join our LinkedIn community

Resources

White papers

Monitoring and Updating Pricing Models in Production

Reserving Rewired: How Psychology, Process, and Software Innovation Intertwine to Redefine Modern Loss Reserving

A Modern Approach to Pricing for Lean Actuarial Teams

Transparent Machine Learning Applications in Tariffed and Detariffing Insurance Markets

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