Ariel Hojman
ARARG
Actuarial Manager
Buenos Aires, AR
Ariel is a consulting actuary in the Buenos Aires office of Milliman and joined the firm in September 2013.
Experience
Ariel has more than 15 years of experience in the insurance and consulting industry.
Before joining Milliman, he worked for six years in RSA as regional actuary for the Latin American region and 10 years at Towers Watson as an actuarial consultant.
During his professional career, Ariel has led several pricing, reserving, and planning projects across the Latin American region.
At Milliman, he provides services to insurance companies in the Latin American region in topics such as:
- M&A/Due Diligence
- Local regulatory requirements
- Life insurance modeling, EV
- Development of insurance strategic plans and financial analysis
- Pricing projects (modeling on GLM), performing technical models, and producing the street prices (considering optimization techniques)
- Actuarial reserve review
- Define underwriting strategy for personal and commercial lines of business
- New product development based on portfolio performance, market intelligence, legal developments, and emerging risks
- Provide training / courses to actuarial, underwriting, claims, and finance areas on technical-related subjects
- Develop tools for tracking and monitoring portfolio performance trends (loss ratio, combined ratio, frequency, severity, retention, etc.)
- Development of software tools (underwriting tools, dashboards, ratemaking, ultimate loss, IBNR projections, etc.)
- Technical reserve audit (statutory, IFRS)
- Performance and risk management
Ariel is a native speaker of Spanish and is fluent In English. He knows Portuguese at an intermediate level.
Education
- Actuarial Sciences, “Universidad de Buenos Aires,” Argentina
Publications
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Global life and health insurance mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
16 April 2024 - by Ian Humphries, Katie Nelson, Tanner McKerlie, Chew Hou Ng, Sam Burgess, Lyndsay Wrobel, Stuart Reynolds, Ariel Hojman, Fernando Mesquida
Globally, 80 life and health insurance mergers and acquisitions were announced in 2023, down from 131 in 2022. However, total publicly announced deal values rose from US$20.4 billion in 2022 to US$21.5 billion in 2023.
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生命保険および健康保険のM&A
16 April 2024 - by Ian Humphries, Katie Nelson, Tanner McKerlie, Chew Hou Ng, Sam Burgess, Lyndsay Wrobel, Stuart Reynolds, Ariel Hojman, Fernando Mesquida
2023年に発表された生命保険・健康保険のM&Aは、世界全体で80件で、その数は2022年の131件から減少しました。一方、公表された取引総額は、2022年の204億ドルから2023年には215億ドルに増加しました。
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COVID-19パンデミックの生命保険市場に予想される影響調査
05 August 2020 - by Fernando Mesquida, Hector Gueler, Ariel Hojman
COVID-19パンデミックは、中南米の生命保険市場にどのような影響を与えるでしょうか?
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Survey on the expected impact of COVID-19 pandemic on life insurance markets
05 August 2020 - by Fernando Mesquida, Hector Gueler, Ariel Hojman
What effect will the COVID-19 pandemic have on the life insurance industry in Latin America?