The Actuaries Institute is holding its month-long annual summit from Tuesday next week until May 21.

All sessions will be virtual and topics include insurance, retirement savings and climate change.

Head of ESG Risk at QBE Sharanjit Paddam will speak on the topic “super funds investing in the time of climate change,” and there will also be an update on the Actuaries Institute’s work on reform in the income disability insurance sector.

General insurance topics scheduled are:

• A Grand Proposal for Uninsurable Risks
• Evolution of Cyber Risks and Insurance
• Framework for Determining Marketable Price of Retail Insurance
• Establishing Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement to Ensure Effective Insurance Solutions
• Impact of Climate Change and Exposure to Natural Perils on Property prices
• Wide-Ranging Regulatory Reforms for insurers in the Fast Lane
• Transforming the Reserving Process
• Neural Networks in Reserving: How and Why are they Worth Considering?
• A Mutual Renaissance
• Deep Fried Bananas: From wholesome to gruesome (and back again?)
• GI Plenary: Recent Developments in Understanding Natural Climate Variability
• Revisiting the Methodology of Actuarial Science

Life insurance topics scheduled include:

• A Practical Guide to Pricing for Uncertainty in Disability Income Insurance
• Behavioural Science Impacts for Australian Life Insurers
• Data Driven Framework to Tackle Regulatory Compliance: An IDII case study
• Demystifying Trauma
• Direct Life Insurance
• Life Plenary: Disability Insurance Task Force. The hard part: making it happen
• Don't Panic! Fair Reserving Amidst the Chaos!
• Excess Mortality in 2020
• Financial impacts under AASB 17 - Practical scenarios explained easily
• How Big Data and Machine Learning are Changing Life Insurance Today
• PYSP/PMIF - Implications on TPD Notifications
• Will the world still need life-insurers in 5 years?

Register for the summit here.