SPONSORS
CAS
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is a leading international organization for credentialing and professional education. Founded in 1914, the CAS is the world’s only actuarial organization focused exclusively on property and casualty risks and serves over 8,000 members worldwide. CAS members are experts in property and casualty insurance, reinsurance, finance, risk management, and enterprise risk management. Professionals educated by the CAS empower business and government to make well-informed strategic, financial and operational decisions.
Desjardins
Desjardins Group is the largest cooperative financial group in Canada, and
one of the largest employers in the country. It has been recognized as one
of Canada’s Top 100 Employers and one of Financial Post’s 10 Best
Companies to work for. It offers a full range of financial products and
services and is home to a wealth of expertise in property and casualty
insurance, life and health insurance, wealth management, services for
businesses of all sizes, securities brokerage, asset management, venture
capital, and secure, leading-edge virtual access methods.
Desjardins General Insurance Group is one of the Top 3 Property and
Casualty insurance companies in Canada, offering home and auto insurance
to individuals and businesses.
For more information, please visit http://www.desjardins.com/ca/about-us/desjardins/
Intact
Intact Financial Corporation is the largest provider of property and casualty insurance in Canada with close to $8.0 billion in premiums. Intact strives to earn the right to be one of Canada's most respected and successful companies. Supported by over 12,000 employees, the Company insures more than five million individuals and businesses through its insurance subsidiaries and is the largest private sector provider of P&C insurance in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Québec, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland & Labrador.
KPMG
About KPMG
KPMG operates in over 40 locations across Canada. The firm’s more than 700 partners and more than 6,500 employees provide crucial services to many of the top business, not for profit and government organizations in Canada. We work closely with our clients, helping them to manage risks and take advantage of opportunities. Responding to complex business challenges across the country and around the globe, we are a national leader in delivering Audit, Tax, and Advisory services.
Insurance & Risk
KPMG works with key life & health insurers, property & casualty insurers and reinsurers with financial and regulatory reporting, M&As, tax management, risk and capital management, and a broad range of organizational improvement strategies. We strive to define client’s tolerance for risk, enhance risk governance and financial risk management, improve risk reporting and risk pricing, mitigate fraud risk, and adopt appropriate technology platforms to manage ORSA requirements and comply with regulations such as IFRS.
Manulife
Manulife is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their financial decisions easier and their lives better by putting customers’ needs first and providing the right advice and solutions. We operate primarily as John Hancock in the United States, and Manulife elsewhere. We provide financial advice, insurance, as well as wealth and asset management solutions for individuals, groups and institutions. At the end of 2017, we had approximately 34,000 employees, 73,000 agents, and thousands of distribution partners, serving more than 25 million customers. At the end of December 2017, we had $1.04 trillion (US$829.4 billion) in assets under management and administration, and in the previous 12 months we made more than $26.7 billion in payments to our customers. Our principal operations are in Asia, Canada and the United States where we have served customers for more than 100 years. With our global headquarters in Toronto, Canada, we trade as 'MFC' on the Toronto, New York, and the Philippine stock exchanges and under '945' in Hong Kong.
Math Faculty - Statistics and Actuarial Science Department
The Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science is among the top academic units for statistical and actuarial science in the world and is home to more than 40 research active full-time faculty working in diverse and exciting areas. The Department is also home to over 900 undergraduate students and about 150 graduate students in programs including Actuarial Science, Biostatistics, Quantitative Finance, Statistics, and Statistics-Computing.
Math Endowment Fund
The Math Endowment Fund (MEF) is an income-generating fund that exists to finance projects that are in the best interests of undergraduate math students at the University of Waterloo. MEF is run by students, for students. More information about MEF can be found at https://mef.uwaterloo.ca.
Moody's
Moody’s Analytics AXIS™ is located in Toronto, Canada. Our primary business is developing, maintaining, and supporting AXIS. AXIS is the premier comprehensive actuarial software solution for integrating pricing, valuation, and modeling with unparalleled flexibility. AXIS is widely used by life insurers, reinsurers, and consulting firms for pricing, reserving, asset and liability management (ALM), financial modeling, capital calculations, and hedging. AXIS provides the flexibility to deploy large-scale computing power through an advanced cloud-based delivery platform or installed software. As part of our support for AXIS, we also offer infrastructure service and software to support both hosted and cloud-based installations of AXIS. Our staff is dedicated to maintaining and improving AXIS and supporting our clients' current and future requirements. Our team includes actuaries, systems development and client support professionals, and quality control specialists. We have no other distracting priorities or commitments. Training, documentation, full-time client support and ongoing enhancements are included as intrinsic parts of the system.
Sun Life
Sun Life Financial is a leading international provider of protection and wealth products and services to individual and corporate customers. It is one of the largest life insurance companies in the world with nearly 4,000 advisors in more than 1,200 communities across Canada. Sun Life is named one of Canada’s best 50 corporate citizens, and one of the top employers for Young People in Canada in 2016.