Bias in Assessing Financial Risk: Insights from the 2025 Research Award

This webinar is free.

ABOUT THIS WEBINAR

The Academy’s Research Committee invites you to join us for a webinar featuring the 2025 Award for Research recipient, Xi Xin, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. This year’s theme was “Bias in Assessing Financial Risk: Origins, Detection, Mitigation,” and received several compelling submissions.

Xin received the 2025 award for his co-authored paper “Antidiscrimination Insurance Pricing: Regulations, Fairness Criteria, and Models,” published in the North American Actuarial Journal (Vol. 28, Issue 2, 2024).

Award finalists Olivier Coté from the Université Laval and Tianhe Zhang from the University of Wisconsin, Madison will join Xin and present their original research on bias. This will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Grace Lattyak, former chairperson of the Academy’s Research Committee. Together, they’ll discuss how actuaries and practitioners might translate these findings into real changes that have the potential to mitigate biases in actuarial assessments in insurance and retirement planning.

MODERATOR

Grace Lattyak FSA, EA, MAAA
Aon, Partner

SPEAKERS

Xi Xin
PhD candidate, School of Risk and Actuarial Studies at the University of New South Wales

Olivier Coté
PhD candidate, School of Actuarial Science at Université Laval

Tianhe Zhang
PhD candidate, Risk Management and Insurance
Department at the University of Wisconsin, Madison

CONTINUING EDUCATION

The American Academy of Actuaries believes in good faith that attendance at this live professionalism webinar constitutes an organized activity as defined under the current Qualification Standards for Actuaries Issuing Statements of Actuarial Opinion in the United States, and that attendees may earn up to 1.8 organized, bias, and professionalism continuing education (CE) credits for attending this live webinar. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
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