Rik van Beers
MSC AAG
Consulting Actuary
Brussels, BE
Rik Van Beers works as a consulting actuary in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Ireland. His main focus is on balance sheet management, capital modelling, valuation model implementation, and risk management.
Experience
Throughout his career, Rik has worked on a range of projects, including:
- Support in ORSA processes at multiple insurers. This includes support from a strategic (risk appetite, capital plan, scenarios and management actions), technical (modelling the balance sheets and capital projections), project leadership and regulatory point of view.
- Prophet Traditional modelling: implementing projection-and valuation models for various Dutch pension-and life insurance portfolios and their reinsurance contracts.
- Prophet ALS: Support in model improvements for ORSA models, Solvency II internal models, TVOG, and mortgage portfolio valuations.
- Support in the IMAP (Solvency II internal model application) for several market risk models and the correlations between market-and non-market risks.
- Support in improving the methodology, models, and processes of the market risk hedge implementation for all insurance options and guarantees of the largest Dutch pension insurer.
- Solvency II model documentation and model testing at multiple insurers.
- Validation of cash flow-and insurance risk models at various Dutch insurers.
- Support of the Actuarial Function holder of a large Dutch funeral insurer.
- Defining and implementing a new pricing methodology for Separate Accounts.
- Working on developing the business strategy, capital management and post-merger process of an Irish insurer.
- Re-defining the business strategy of a large Dutch non-life insurer and setting up projection models to support this strategy.
- Conducting feasibility studies, research, implementation and approval trajectories for various Solvency II measures such as the Volatility Adjustment and Matching Adjustment at multiple insurers.
- Member of the investment board of a Dutch pension fund.
- Implementing the risk reporting and monitoring process of a Dutch pension fund.
- Validation of strategic investment plans of several Dutch pension funds.
- Research and model improvements for internal models on interest rate risk.
Professional Designations
- Fellow, Royal Dutch Actuarial Association Member of the ERM committee of the AG
Education
- Bachelor of Science in Econometrics & Operations Research, Tilburg University
- Master of Science in Quantitative Finance & Actuarial Science, Tilburg University
- Postmasters Actuarial Practice Cycle, Amsterdam Business School.
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