What Are Pinnacle APEX Webinars?
Pinnacle's APEX Webinar is a free, monthly webinar series discussing some of the most timely, interesting and important issues facing the property and casualty industry. Our APEX Webinars are hosted by Pinnacle thought leaders and cover a variety of subjects, key sectors and lines of business. Topics in recent years have included inflation, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, cyber security, medical professional liability, predictive analytics, Florida homeowners insurance updates and so much more.
The dives are deep, and provide attendees with critical details from every corner of the property and casualty industry. Now in our second decade, Pinnacle APEX Webinars remain a go-to source of high-quality information and discussion. Generally held on the third Thursday of every month, APEX Webinars as so well regarded they often qualify for the actuarial profession's continuous education requirement.
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Upcoming Webinars
Join Pinnacle team members Greg Fears, Erich Brandt, Brittany Henrich and Steve Jagodzinski as they review the 2023 updates to the Risk Retention Group Benchmarking Study. The group will take an in-depth look at industry-level RRG financial statement data complete with trends and comparisons to the admitted market.
For this APEX Webinar, Pinnacle Principal and Consulting Actuary Art Randolph and Senior Consulting Actuary Chris Schubert will present an update to our annual analysis of the latest salient data and trends in the title insurance market. Joining Art and Chris will be Senior Financial Analyst Kourtnie Beckwith of AM Best’s property and casualty ratings division and Vice President and Treasurer Matt Wajner of First American Financial Corporation. The group will discuss some of the key insights from AM Best's recent title insurance market segment report.
Watch Recorded Webinars
In actuarial modeling, transparency is crucial for constructing effective models and translating complex results into actionable business insights. This Pinnacle APEX Webinar will discuss the advanced methods for interpreting "black box" machine learning models, focusing on tools like SHAP and LIME. Pinnacle’s Consulting Actuaries Kunshan Yin, Joseph Sveda and Data Scientist Erool Palipane will explore the calculation and application of these tools, demonstrating how they can be leveraged to enhance model interpretability, ensure regulatory compliance and improve decision-making.
Join Pinnacle Consulting Actuaries Trenton Lipka and Ken Hawkins as they follow up on their previous APEX discussion of incurred but not reported (IBNR) reserves and discuss considerations beyond the basics of loss reserve analysis.
Pinnacle’s Director and Consulting Actuary Greg Fears, Senior Consulting Actuary Erich Brandt and Associate Actuary Amanda Conklin will analyze groups that experienced adverse loss development this past year. The team will cover how the industry performed over the last several years relatively, as well as discuss risk of material adverse deviation items as observed in recent statements of actuarial opinion.