The seminar is suited for actuaries or actuarial trainees that are directly or indirectly involved in issues with regard to financial risk management and solvency within insurance companies. The aim is to transfer knowledge and practise about how economic capital for insurance companies is measured and managed in practice.

The courses will at first deal with the underlying theory of economic capitals. Besides a short introduction to the underlying theory, participants of the seminar will have many opportunities to gain practical experience with the economic capital concept. The lecturers have prepared case studies using spreadsheets that are derived from business issues that came across in their daily practice.