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
Pinnacle’s Director and Consulting Actuary Laura Maxwell and Consulting Actuaries Megan Baker and Nicole Sanders will share highlights from their actuarial careers. Through personal stories and shared insights, they will explore the challenges, achievements and contributions of women professionals. This Pinnacle APEX Webinar will cover the unique perspectives women bring to the actuarial profession and how their experiences have shaped their careers.
Watch Recorded Webinars
For this Pinnacle APEX webinar, Pinnacle Senior Consulting Actuaries Gary Wang and Michael Chen provided 2025 updates on the current state of discussions on the issue of fairness in insurance. Gary and Michael explored balancing accurate risk differentiation with equitable treatment when rating variables are restricted or banned by regulation. Using a collection of foundational synthetic examples, they presented an analysis of various scenarios under imposed regulatory actions.
Join Pinnacle Principals and Consulting Actuaries Derek Freihaut and Aaron Hillebrandt as they provide an annual look at the changes of Statements of Actuarial Opinion (SAOs) for the year-end 2024. In this webinar, Derek and Aaron will discuss new SAO requirements and issues that actuaries may expect to manage this year.
Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) are a powerful tool for actuaries, offering a flexible, data-driven approach to modeling continuous variables while maintaining interpretability and avoiding overfitting. They provide a natural extension to Generalized Linear Models (GLMs), with many shared techniques and methods, making GAMs a useful addition to the actuarial toolkit. In this Pinnacle APEX Webinar, Senior Consulting Actuary Radost Wenman will provide a high-level conceptual overview of GAMs, highlighting their role as an extension of GLMs for modeling nonlinearity in continuous variables