Impact of Covid-19 on Insurance Sector COVID-19 outbreak has impacted almost all industries and sectors across the world, causing widespread concern and increasing economic hardship for consumers, businesses and communities. The insurance sector in particular is likely to contract with growth declining 0.9% in 2020, compared to 8.8% growth recorded in 2019 , said GlobalData[...]

Prashant K. Rai is currently working as Assistant Manager- Actuarial Services and has experience of 2.5 years (16 months in Analytics and 14 months in Actuarial Analytics). During our conversation, he shared his thoughts about the relationship between Data Science and Actuarial Analytics. Below is an edited excerpt of the same. Q. What is Analytics?[...]

Sonjai Kumar, is working as a Head-Insurance and Financial Risk at Aviva Life Insurance. During our conversation, he shared his views on the role played by actuaries in Risk Management. Below is an excerpt of the same. Q. You have started your Private sector career in 2000, and in the fourteen years since then, a[...]

Trijot Singh is currently working as Senior Actuarial Analyst and has a work experience of about 3.0 years in pensions. During our discussion, he shared his thoughts on role of an actuary in pension industry, below is an edited excerpt of the same. Q. What role does an actuary play in a consulting firm for[...]

Tarun Kumar Banga and Neha Birla Banga are the happily married actuarial couple. They both have working experience of around seven years in Health Insurance and General Insurance lines of business. Tarun is currently working as Actuarial Manager- HealthCare and Benefits whereas Neha is working as Manager – Actuarial Services. During our conversation they shared[...]

Nikhil has about 5 years of experience in health care consulting in the US and Indian Market, along with some hand on experience in gratuity, leave encashment, valuation and reserving in General Insurance line of business. He is a graduate in Commerce and has 10 actuarial exams to his credit and is also proficient in[...]

Chehak Jain is working as Senior Actuarial Analyst at XL Group. During our conversation, she shared her views about the role played by an actuary and how one can reach his/her maximum potential. Below is an edited excerpt of the same. Q. What role do you play as Senior Actuarial Analyst? My work revolves around[...]

Manish Wadhwa is working as a Benefit Analyst since last year. During our conversation, he shed light on the role of an actuary in pension industry. Below is an edited excerpt of the same. Q. What is your role as a Benefit Analyst? The main work of an analyst is to estimate the benefit that[...]