Thorsten Pfeiffer Email & Phone Number

Basel Area, Switzerland

• Market consistent valuation
• Standard model development
• Risk assessment (all types of risk)

Central Europe

Zürich Area, Switzerland

• Responsible for:
• Valuation and risk standard model development, joint project with CRO working group
• Risk assessment of insurance groups, including systemically important insurers
• Conducting reserve reviews
• Approving appointed actuaries
• Member of FINMA’s approving committee on the SST: internal models, solvency and market consistency methodology

• Responsible for:
• Building and managing a team of actuaries
• Assessing reserves of life, non-life, health and reinsurance firms
• Spearheading the creation of internal model development and approval thereof
• Leading role in- understanding scarce data: scenario design and stress test analysis- Solvency II equivalence assessment- coaching the jurisdiction’s actuaries towards risk based supervision
• Developing and implementing standard setting in - quantitative risk management and market consistent valuation- financial market risk and group solvency including D-SIIs and G-SIIs

• Responsible for:
• Creating an actuarial team to develop and implement the Swiss Solvency Test (SST), a state of the art solvency system
• Reviewing and approving internal models & signing off their methodology
• Conducting risk dialogue on SST reports and findings
• Contributing talks and performing workshops on the SSTSuccess:FOPI has now a brilliant team of actuariesRisk based solvency is now implemented in Switzerland & largely accepted by the actuarial communityRisk dialogue.

Team ManagementInternal Control SystemProduct / Marketing CompliancePolicy Provisions

• Responsible for:
• Providing longevity solutions for globally active clients
• Developing and marketing of primary and reinsurance products
• Consulting primary companies including optimizing their capital structure
• Working with clients, understanding their needs, creating win-win-situations and profitable productsSuccess:Priced the first longevity swaps ever and placed them in the marketGeneral Electric Summit Award for.