Contractual Grants
Research Project Funding
Australian Actuarial Research Grants:
The conditions of award for these grants can be viewed by clicking here . The grants support leading-edge research projects in areas of strategic need for the profession, where outcomes from the research are expected to fill gaps in the profession’s intellectual and knowledge base and/or significantly advance its image and reputation proposed by less experienced researchers who, in the opinion of the Research Council Committee (“RCC”), could benefit from further support for their research at this time. These could include practitioners with expanding research interests.
Recipients for projects being carried out in 2012, were selected in December 2011 and are as follows:
| Greg Taylor, Therese Walsh | Taylor Fry | Meyers-Shi finalisation dateng |
| Greg Taylor, Ash Evans | Taylor Fry | The hierarchical Kalman factor |
| Benjamin Avanzi, Greg Taylor, Bernard Wong | UNSW | An innovative approach to stochastic claims reserving with dependence |
| Greg Tayor, Dimitri Semenovich | Taylor Fry | Robust Reserving |
| Elayne Grace | | Learning from risks of the past |
| Ken Siu, John Lau, David Pitt, Leonie Tickle, Stefan Truek, Xian Zhou | Macquarie University | A Bayesian nonparametric approach for corporate default risk analysis |
| Jackie Li, Leonie Tickle, Nick Parr | Macquarie University | An evaluation of the forecasting performance of the Poisson Common Factor Model |
| Tim Kyng | Macquarie University | Financial literacy of retirees and their decisions about retirement village residency |
| Naomi Edwards | | Carbon stocks in Australia – how will they fare under the ETS? |
| Peter Mulquiney | Taylor Fry | Model error by neural net |
| Ralph Stevens | UNSW | Modifying the Lee-Carter model |
The 2012 round of grants will be open for consideration on 1 June.
Enquiries regarding the grants to: Jennifer Burns, University Relationship Manager.
Australian Actuarial PhD Scholarships:
The Australian Actuarial PhD Scholarships program complements the Australian Actuarial Research Grants program, in particular. The scholarships, one of which is the A H Pollard PhD Scholarship, offer a top-up stipend, to support PhD projects in the actuarial sciences.
The Council of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia founded a scholarship in 2002 in honour of the late Professor Alfred Hurlstone Pollard. Professor Pollard is widely acknowledged as one of Australia’s most outstanding actuaries, having made particularly important contributions in the field of actuarial education.
The recipient of the 2011 A H Pollard Scholarship is Ramona Meyricke who is currently studying in the United Kingdom at Cambridge University. Her PhD project is on the study of globalisation and technological change increases in economic and financial integration and dependence between firms.
Enquiries about the project funding programs to: Jennifer Burns ,University Relationship Manager.
