From Idea to Market: A Comprehensive Guide to Introducing New Insurance Products

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Launching and pricing new insurance products is a complex journey requiring strategic planning and innovative solutions. This white paper outlines the stages involved in this process and highlights how Akur8’s advanced pricing software facilitates the development of competitive insurance products.

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From Idea to Market: A Comprehensive Guide to Introducing New Insurance Products

Insurance pricing

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Launching and pricing new insurance products is a complex journey requiring strategic planning and innovative solutions. This white paper outlines the stages involved in this process and highlights how Akur8’s advanced pricing software facilitates the development of competitive insurance products.

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Pricing Teams in a Changing World Report

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The actuarial field is experiencing a rapid transformation driven by dynamic trends, including the surge in data volume and diversity facilitated by technological advancements. Actuaries now confront the challenge of extracting insights from diverse data sources, necessitating the integration of cutting-edge technologies like AI and machine learning.

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Akur8 White Paper - Derivative Lasso: Credibility-based signal fitting for GLMs

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Derivative Lasso: Credibility-based signal fitting for GLMs

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This paper proposes a solution to the dilemma actuaries encounter: whether to build transparent GLMs that require significant cost and expertise, or to automate the model building process using non-transparent techniques that could limit the ability to deploy models in production.

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Akur8 white paper - Unlocking the value in insurance pricing: Balancing the Build vs. Buy equation

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Unlocking the value in insurance pricing: Balancing the Build vs. Buy equation

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When choosing whether to deploy an off-the-shelf pricing software solution, or to develop bespoke in-house pricing software, there is no ‘one-size-fits-all’ answer. Different scenarios, staffing levels, timescales, objectives and business needs can all influence what the best option may be.

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Akur8 and FCG white paper - Pricing in an Age of High Inflation

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Pricing in an Age of High Inflation

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As high inflation raises the stakes of pricing errors, influences insurer's costs, and changes customer behavior, what data and strategies can actuaries leverage to estimate future inflation? When speed of adaptation is more critical than ever, what kind of pricing and product approaches can help pricing teams make good decisions and improve time-to-market?

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Akur8 white paper - Bancassurance: is pricing sophistication the key to continued growth?

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Bancassurance: is pricing sophistication the key to continued growth?

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After decades of success, the bancassurance model is coming under pressure. What can bancassurance operators do to meet the new challenges?

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Akur8 white paper - Applying Machine Learning to Actuarial and Pricing Workflows

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Applying Machine Learning to Actuarial and Pricing Workflows

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Applying machine learning to pricing processes is becoming easier due to advances in technology and increasingly accessible platforms.

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Convergence between actuarial and data science is coming!

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Akur8's Global Pricing Survey

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Akur8 has released the results of its first global insurance pricing survey! Over a hundred insurance pricing professionals across all lines of business, representing 34 countries, shared their main challenges and expectations concerning the future of insurance pricing.

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Milliman - Analysis of Akur8 Pricing Solution and Methodology

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Milliman has carried out an in-depth analysis of Akur8's pricing solution and methodology. Here is the full report presenting Milliman’s conclusions.

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Data transformation for insurers – now is the time

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Why insurance companies can no longer delay optimizing their data to transform how they do business

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Transparent AI - Fighting the good fight

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The use of AI has quickly expanded over the past few years across all sectors, driven by proven substantial financial benefits for organizations.

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Pricing analytics – an untapped value reservoir in the insurance industry

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For anyone who has been around the insurance space for a significant amount of time, innovation has been rather scarce up until recent years.

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The truth about GAMs, GLMs and GBMs in insurance pricing

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AI-powered pricing sophistication is a relatively new journey for insurers, but one departure they definitely do not want to miss. The consistent application of Generalized Additive or...

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Rate Change and Dislocation Analysis: Transparent ML as the Path to Accurate and Actionable Insights.

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The democratization of quick and efficient modeling brought about by Transparent Machine Learning can be of tremendous help in empowering Dislocation

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The insurance technology arms race - PropertyCasualty360

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Rob Porter (Director of Product, Vave - Canopius Group), and Anne-Laure Klein (COO, AKUR8), discuss the benefits of partnering with the right insurtech in PropertyCasualty360

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FCA Price Walking Ban 🇬🇧

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As of January 1st, 2022, price walking for home and motor insurance will be forbidden in the UK. Discover the expected impact for insurers and how Akur8 can boost your adaptability!

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Credibility and Penalized Regression

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Discover key concepts and intuitions that demonstrate how Penalized Regression blends GLM with Credibility-like assumptions.

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