Actuarial Society of South Africa

This channel contains recordings from sessional meetings as well as podcasts and other audio material of value to actuaries and actuarial students in South Africa.

Held at the Maslow Hotel,Sandton on 10 September 2019

Held at The Maslow Hotel. Johannesburg on 20 August 2019

Held at the Radisson Blu Waterfront, Cape Town on 13 June.
This Year's Theme: Connecting Ideas

The ERM Committee is responsible for growing and supporting the role of actuaries in the field of ERM.

The committee identifies and manages areas of research to support the establishment of an actuarial framework for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and to develop actuarial methodologies for measuring and managing Financial Risks.

The objectives include:

Formulate views of the South African actuarial profession on matters of concern to the profession in this field to South African institutions.

Co-operate with other Actuarial Society Committees, particularly the Health, Pensions, Short Term Insurance, Long-Term Insurance and Investment Committees to:
- consider issues of joint concern
- ensure a co-ordinated approach in providing guidance to actuaries: and
- formulate an actuarial process to risk assessment

Promote and encourage the development of actuarial skills in financial risk within the actuarial profession in South Africa, including recommendations to the ASSA Education Committee.

Maintain contact with the appropriate Committee(s) of the International Actuarial Association and develop and maintain contact with AFIR (the Financial Risk Section of the International Actuarial Association);

Liaises with other professional bodies on enterprise and financial risk related issues. e.g. IRMSA, PRMIA and GARP; and

Provides input to regulators on enterprise and financial risk management issues. This includes the implementation and management of the Basel 2 Accord for banks and Solvency Assessment and Management (SAM) for insurers.

The ASSA 2018 Education Seminar held in Sandton on 14 September 2018