Survey of Canadian Actuaries on ML in Reserving

We discuss our recent survey of Canadian insurers
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Author

Jacqueline Friedland

Published

December 22, 2020

To wrap up the 2020 year, this post brings you the second of a series of two posts detailing the results of a survey into machine learning use in reserving in the UK and Canada. This post covers Canada. The first post, which details our findings from the UK, may be found here.

On behalf of the working party, I conducted a survey among Canadian actuaries on the use of machine learning (ML) in reserving. The survey respondents consisted of:

Overall there was enthusiasm for the potential of ML to assist with setting reserves, with four insurers currently using ML in the reserving process. For three of these insurers, ML was used for additional insights, but, significantly, the final insurer used ML to book reserves.

The full findings of the survey can be found here.

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