This session aims to provide a best practice overview and guiding principles for catastrophe model evaluation and validation that is useful for end users.

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Learn how you can harness technical skills, keep up to date, and remain relevant by staying ahead of emerging trends. Future-proof your career by learning from the past and preparing for what’s next.

This session provides valuable insights into the profession, career opportunities, and the skills you need to succeed from actuaries working in a range of industries including life insurance, superannuation, public policy and consulting.

In this session we provide an update to our assessment of home insurance affordability across Australia. Since the 2023 Report, home insurance affordability pressures have continued to rise for almost all Australian households, with increases in home insurance premiums continuing to outpace household income growth. This update we extend our analysis to assess the potential impacts of home insurance affordability on the home loan market. Rising insurance costs may impact a borrower’s ability to meet repayments, or, in the case of unaffordable insurance, may result in reduced new lending or refinancing. Where existing borrowers do not renew their insurance on an annual basis, lenders are exposed to an increased risk of credit losses triggered by peril events. As such, we look at the impact of insurance affordability on the wider financial system, discussing the implications for lenders, their customers, regulators and governments.