Title: Insurance Australia Group Paul Driessen Head Actuary, Personal Injury
1Insurance Australia GroupPaul DriessenHead
Actuary, Personal Injury
- Presentation to Australian National University
School of Finance Applied Statistics - 14 August 2003
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3Curriculum vitae
- PAUL DRIESSEN (BSc Hons, FIAA)
- Head Actuary, Personal Injury
- Paul Driessen has 13 years experience in the
general insurance industry, including over 5
years as a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries
of Australia and 4 years with the Insurance
Australia Group (IAG). - In his current role, Paul has actuarial
responsibility for the personal injury operations
of the Group, which covers workers compensation
and compulsory third party insurance. Paul is a
member of the Accident Compensation Committee, a
sub-committee of the Institute of Actuaries of
Australia General Insurance Practice Committee. -
- Prior to joining IAG he worked for the actuarial
consulting firm Tillinghast-Towers Perrin,
including two years work in the USA.
4Australia New Zealands Leading General Insurer
- No.1 position in 7 general insurance markets
- -Motor, Home, CTP, SME Commercial, Workers Comp,
Consumer Credit, Extended Warranty - Over 11,000 employees in Australia
- Almost 12 million active policies
5Financial strength
- Ranked among 25 largest Australian listed
companies - Owns many leading direct and intermediated brands
- Total gross written premium (GWP) almost 6.0bn
- Capitalisation of 5.8bn as at 30 June 2003
- Total assets of 16.3bn, net assets of 4.1bn
(31/12/02) - Claims reserved at 90 probability of sufficiency
6Our History
- Motor vehicle insurer in NSW/ACT in 1925
- Demutualised in July 2000
- Insurance arm listed on ASX in August 2000 as
NRMA Insurance Group Limited - Name change in January 2002 to Insurance
Australia Group Limited (IAG) - Acquisition of CGU/NZI
- announced October 2002
- finalised January 2003 (cost 1.85bn)
- Now a highly diversified insurance group
- Every Australian state and territory New
Zealand - All major lines of business
7Core lines of business
- Home Insurance
- Motor vehicle insurance
- Health Insurance
- Commercial Insurance
- Compulsory Third Party (CTP) Insurance
- Workers Compensation Insurance
- Consumer Credit Insurance
- Extended Warranty Insurance
- Retirement financial advice
8History of growth and diversification
- Note
- FY97 to 1H03 IAG GWP includes all business except
Inward Reinsurance, which is in run-off. - Pro-forma GWP is the aggregate of the Groups
consolidated GWP for half year ended 31 December
2002, doubled to give and annualised amount
(3.8bn) and the aggregated GWP for CGU and NZI
for the year ended 31 December 2002.
9Balanced geographic spread
Source (1) APRA December 2001. (2) CGU for the
year ended 31 December 2001. Fortis GWP has been
annualised.
10Share Price History
11Share Price History (1 year)
12Delivering on our five year strategy announced in
May 2002strategy
Goals
Reinvigorate customer focus
Core operations
Top quartile total shareholder return ROE 13
15 Double gross written premium by FY 2007 to
6.6bn Maintain combined ratio lt 100 Maintain
'AA' category rating
Extend scale in general insurance
Deliver earnings
Build capability
Leverage core capabilities
Investigate pursue
Risk management
Growth/quality earnings
Emerging opportunities
13Enterprise Risk Group Actuary
- Chief Risk Officer and Group Actuary
- Tony Coleman FIA, FIAA, MBA
- Research Development
- Technical research
- Actuarial function
- DFA and capital allocation
- Group Risk Compliance
- Risk management
- Fraud Security Risk
14Research Development
- Personal Lines
- Motor
- Home
- Industry Research
- Commercial Insurance
- Personal Injury
- Workers Compensation
- Compulsory Third Party
- Group Actuarial
- Technical Research
15Research Development
- Diverse staff base (around 100 staff in total)
- Actuarial
- Statistical
- Information Technology
- Other (meteorologists, mathematicians, etc)
- Staff in Sydney Melbourne
- Clear focus on technical/pure research
- Many stakeholders to manage
- IAG Management staff
- IAG Board Committees
- External auditors and consultants
- Regulators (APRA, ASIC, ACCC, MAA, etc)
16Research Development
- Control Cycle
- Pricing and rating
- Reserving and provisioning
- Monitoring experience
- Financial budgets
- Statistical/actuarial modeling and analysis
- Generalised linear models
- Data mining
- Asset/liability modeling
- Technical Research
- Climate change
- Claims analysis
- Customer profitability
- Consistent reporting process
- Results to market every 6 months
- Quarterly/Annual APRA returns
- Industry representation
17Challenges/Market Risks
- Reinsurance failures
- Terrorism
- Eroding consumer regulator confidence
- HIH collapse
- Corporate governance
- Latent liabilities
- Tort law reform (public liability)
- Natural catastrophes
- Future climate change?
- Industry consolidation
- Poor equity markets
- Pricing cycle
- New regulatory requirements
- APRA
- International Accounting Standards
- Financial Services Reform
18Graduates what do we look for?
- Bright, talented, well-rounded graduates
- Good academic results
- Work experience
- Personal achievements
- Extra curricular activities
- Interpersonal and communication skills
- Innovation strong problem solving skills
- Strong computer literacy
- Customer focus, integrity, honesty and teamwork
19Graduates what do we offer?
- Great career opportunities
- Australias leading general insurer
- Variety of work
- Mentoring, development training
- Succession planning leadership training
- Competitive salary packages
- Generous superannuation
- Performance based incentives
- Other benefits
- Continuous learning
- On-the job development plans
- Generous study leave for external courses
(including IAA exams)
20Questions