20 October 06:30 – 09:30 UTC/GMT | Online | 3-Hour Interactive Session
This Micro-course is designed to help health insurance professionals to understand the logic, language and impact of actuarial work; regardless of if they have a technical background or not. You’ll finish the course with practical insights into how actuarial models drives decision making and how you and your team can engage more effectively with actuarial processes.
Led by Andrew Matthews, Principal at Finity Consulting and Appointed Actuary to several Australian health insurers, this intensive and highly interactive session introduces participants to the core principles of actuarial science and how they influence pricing, risk evaluation, reserves, and organisational strategy. It emphasises practical understanding and collaboration over mathematical detail.
A fast-paced, interactive 3-hour session combining expert insight with practical frameworks and real business contexts.
By the end of the Micro-course, participants will:
- Understand core actuarial concepts such as risk, expected value and pooling
- See how assumptions, data and models shape pricing and financial decisions
- Learn how different departments influence and support actuarial work
- Build confidence engaging with actuaries, models and decision logic; even without a technical background
- Better understand balance sheet strength, profitable growth and preparing for the many possible future scenarios
- Learn how organisational capability, not just technical models, determines successful adoption of AI and analytical tools
This course is designed for professionals who work with, but are not, actuaries. No technical background required, curiosity and a desire to engage are your most important tools.
This includes:
- HR and Learning & Development: Build internal fluency to support actuarial roles and workforce strategy
- Graduates and New Starters: Fast-track understanding of risk, models, and business decisions
- Communications and Marketing: Improve clarity and confidence in messaging around pricing, risk, and fairness
- Operations and Claims: Understand how your team’s data and choices shape reserves and projections
- Product and Innovation: Collaborate more effectively with actuarial teams during product development
By the end of this Micro-course, you will:
- Understand key actuarial principles and their business relevance
- Recognise how actuarial insight supports strategic decision-making
- Gain confidence to ask better questions of actuarial and pricing teams
- Appreciate how your team’s data and decisions contribute to fairness, sustainability, and resilience
- Be equipped with five strategic questions you can ask actuaries or pricing teams to improve collaboration and outcomes
Participants will be asked to do up to 2-hours of self-study prior to participating in the Micro-course.
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For any enquiries, please contact Will@ifhp.com