Hens Steehouwer

InsuranceERM, Enterprise Risk Management Technology guide, interviewed Hens Steehouwer on insurance technology trends, concerns facing insurance companies, and innovation of ALM models.

Das Coronavirus stellt nicht nur Investoren, sondern auch Finanzmodelle vor Herausforderungen und deren Anwendung. Dieses Whitepaper soll Investoren bei ihren Entscheidungen so gut wie möglich unterstützen.

The start of a New Year traditionally is a moment at which we look back and reflect on the past year and a time to look forward, making New Year’s resolutions, for example.

Our economic and asset return scenarios provide information about what the future might look like. But every now and then one needs to look back at how historical scenario sets compare to how reality has unfolded in terms of actual economic and financial market developments. Based on three years of data we evaluated the true out-of-sample quality of the density forecasts as provided by the Ortec Finance scenarios.

Business cycles are one of the defining characteristics of realistic market behaviour (“stylized facts”) in asset prices, yield curves and volatilities, as well as in the broader macro-economic environment. It is therefore important to take business cycles into account when making investment decisions.

Die Welt steht im Kampf gegen eine Pandemie: den Ausbruch von COVID-19. Die Auswirkungen auf unsere Gesundheit, das soziale Leben, die Weltwirtschaft und die Finanzmärkte sind immens und muten zuweilen beinahe unwirklich an.