History
The history of the DAV goes back to 1903, when the “Department of Actuarial Science” was formed within the German Association for Actuarial Science in Berlin. The background to this was to create a contact point for “specialist colleagues”, which also provided a point of contact for the international actuarial congresses that had been taking place since 1895. The German Actuarial Association was also founded in Berlin in 1935. In 1948, the German Society of Actuaries (DGVM) was founded in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, which merged with the German Actuarial Association in 1951.
The DAV in its current form was founded in 1993 against the backdrop of the further liberalization of the European internal market, including in the insurance industry, and the associated introduction of the Responsible Actuary in the Insurance Supervision Act. The IVS - Institut der Versicherungsmathematischen Sachverständigen für Altersversorgung e.V., which was founded in 1980 as a professional association, became a branch association of the DAV. The DGVM, which was renamed the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Versicherungs- und Finanzmathematik e.V. (DGVFM) in 2002, has since acted as a sister association of the DAV, focusing on the promotion of young talent and the transfer of knowledge from academia to practice.
The purpose
The purpose of the DAV is to create the framework conditions for the professional practice of its approximately 6,500 members and to represent the interests of actuaries and consumers in dialog with relevant national and international institutions. The DAV offers a demanding, in-service training program to become a DAV actuary and enables its members to acquire additional qualifications in areas such as occupational pensions, risk management and data science.
Additional qualifications
In order to adapt to changing requirements, the DAV, together with other national actuarial associations, founded the CERA Global Association in 2010, which organizes training to become a Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary. In addition, the DAV offers training to become a Certified Actuarial Data Scientist (CADS), which deals specifically with data processing and data protection issues in the context of insurance companies and financial service providers.
International Commitment
The DAV has always been committed to the profession and the interests of its members at an international level - particularly in the two umbrella organizations, the Actuarial Association of Europe (AAE) and the International Actuarial Association (IAA). It was therefore a very special highlight when the DAV and the IAA jointly invited over 2,700 colleagues from all over the world to the 31st International Congress of Actuaries in Berlin in June 2018. In order to celebrate the anniversary appropriately with the European and global community, the DAV will once again host the committee meetings of both associations in the German capital as part of an international week in October 2028.
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