Over the recent years, both in finance and insurance, the modelling of dependence beyond linear correlation has become a key area of research. The notion of copula has been used with success in order to model these more general dependence concepts. We will discuss changes in dependence...

This is a summary of the main topics and findings from the Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum 2017. That event gathered experts from academia, insurance industry, regulatory bodies, and consulting companies to discuss past and current developments as well as future perspectives in dealing with...

APPLICATIONS OF MATHEMATICS STOCHASTIC MODELLING AND APPLIED PROBABILITY 33 Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance -- Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance -- Copyright -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Reader Guidelines -- 1 Risk Theory -- 2 Fluctuations of Sums -- 3...

For centuries, mathematicians and, later, statisticians, have found natural research and employment opportunities in the realm of insurance. By definition, insurance offers financial cover against unforeseen events that involve an important component of randomness, and consequently, probability...

As an emerging field of applied research, quantitative risk management (QRM) poses a lot of challenges for probabilistic and statistical modeling. This review provides a discussion on selected past, current, and possible future areas of research at the intersection of statistics and QRM. Topics...