Gold Sponsor:

IQAM Invest GmbH

IQAM Invest is a modern fund manufacturer with more than 30 years’ market experience. IQAM Invest and its team of more than 50 experts in Salzburg, Vienna and Frankfurt offer professional investors high-quality investment funds and individual, tailored investment solutions. We help our customers achieve their investment goals by applying carefully selected yield factors in a risk-controlled manner. These yield factors and asset management models are not only theoretically well founded and transparent, but have also proven themselves in practice.

For additional information visit www.iqam.com.

 
Gold Sponsor:

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI)

Raiffeisen Bank International AG (RBI) regards Austria, where it is a leading corporate and investment bank, as well as Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) as its home market. Allmost all markets of the region are covered by subsidiary banks. Additionally, the Group comprises numerous other financial service providers, for instance in the fields of leasing, asset management as well as mergers and acquisitions.

In total, around 51,700 employees service 14.9 million customers through almost 2,700 business outlets, the great majority of which are located in CEE.

RBI is a fully-consolidated subsidiary of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich AG (RZB). RZB indirectly owns around 60.7 per cent of the shares, the remainder is in free float. RBI's shares are listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange. RZB is the central institution of the Austrian Raiffeisen Banking Group, the country's largest banking group, and serves as the head office of the entire RZB Group, including RBI.

For additional information visit http://www.rbinternational.com/.

 
Gold Sponsor:

Bank Austria

UniCredit Bank Austria is one of the leading and best capitalized major banks in Austria and part of UniCredit. Our bank offers services that meet the most modern standards - 24/7, online, mobile and through our branches.

UniCredit at a glance

UniCredit is a pan-European Commercial Bank with a unique service offering in Italy, Germany, Central and Eastern Europe. Our purpose is to empower communities to progress, delivering the best-in-class for all stakeholders, unlocking the potential of our people and our clients across Europe.

We serve circa 15 million customers worldwide. They are at the heart of what we do in all our markets. UniCredit is organized in four core regions and three product factories, Corporate, Individual and Group Payments Solutions. This allows us to be close to our clients and use the scale of the entire Group for developing and offering the best products across all our markets.

Digitalisation and our commitment to ESG principles are key enablers for our service. They help us deliver excellence to our stakeholders and creating a sustainable future for our clients, our communities and our people.

For additional information visit www.bankaustria.at.

 
Silver Sponsor:

B&W Deloitte GmbH

Being one of the leading advisory companies Deloitte brings together specialists from audit, actuarial, risk, corporate finance, consulting (strategy, operations, and technology), tax and legal. These skills, combined with deep industry knowledge, allow us to provide a broad range of high-quality services to life and health, property and casualty, reinsurers and insurance broker clients. Currently about 670 people are working for Deloitte in this particular field, supporting all well-known insurers in the market. Almost 150 people are experts in actuarial and insurance services gathered in B&W Deloitte GmbH at locations in Germany and Austria. In addition to the broad skill set, our sector specific know-how and the global Deloitte network enable us to combine local knowledge with global resources to ensure best and competitive service to our clients.

For additional information visit www.deloitte.com.

 
Silver Sponsor:

Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss

Meyerthole Siems Kohlruss (MSK) - actuarial consulting since 1998.
A love of mathematics
Meyerthole Siems Kohlrus (MSK) supports insurance companies in strategic decisions and operational processes in the property and casualty insurance sector. MSK gets to the heart of complex issues and provides decision templates. We build bridges between theory and practice: well-founded analyses and economic success are one and the same. We provide our advice with a great deal of commitment, creativity and professionalism. We love maths and know the market - and have done so for more than 20 years. We specialise in a wide variety of tasks in the areas of data science, telematics, pricing, natural hazards, balance sheet valuation, reinsurance and Solvency II. We dedicate ourselves to future-oriented topics and develop customised solutions that keep pace with the times. Our clients include both established insurers and InsurTechs.

For additional information visit www.aktuare.de.

 
Scientific Partner:

WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

WU is the public university of economics and business in Austria, and one of the leading universities of its kind in Europe. It represents a broad variety of disciplines related to business and economics. WU strives for excellence in academic research and delivers state-of-the-art teaching rooted in current academic knowledge. It is home to more than 21000 students in various degree programs at the bachelor, master and PhD level.

The Institute for Statistics and Mathematics at WU carries out high-quality research in mathematics and statistics for economics and business. Its research agenda comprises in particular applied probability, financial mathematics and quantitative risk management, theoretical and applied statistics, optimization, and computing. In its research the institute follows a holistic approach based on the integration of conceptual and computational tools. The institute participates in teaching at at all academic levels. It runs in particular the PhD label (specialization) Mathematics in Economics and Business and the MSc in Quantitative Finance (the latter in close cooperation with the Institute of Finance, Banking and Insurance).

For additional information visit www.wu.ac.at and www.wu.ac.at/en/statmath.

 
Scientific Partner:

University of Vienna

The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) was  founded in 1365, and is the oldest still existing German university and among the largest institutions of higher learning in Europe at approximately 89000 students. The university is associated with 16 Nobel Prize winners and has been the home to many scholars of historical and academic importance. The Financial Mathematics group combines and develops ideas coming from stochastic and functional analysis, and the theory of optimal transportation, to obtain new insights on the fundamental questions of portfolio optimization, pricing and hedging of financial instruments, based on the no-arbitrage principle. The group participates actively in the Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral programs in Mathematics, as well as in the teaching education program in Mathematics.

The research group QUARIMAFI (Quantitative Risk Management and Mathematical Finance) works at the interface of mathematical finance, stochastic analysis, statistics and data science. Concrete topics include universal structures in mathematical finance, e.g., universal stochastic processes with applications in volatility modeling and portfolio theory, approximation theory in dynamic situations, data-​driven risk inference and machine learning in finance, especially neural-signature methods. The group participates actively in the Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral programs of Statistics and Data Analytics.

For additional information visit mathematik.univie.ac.at/en/research/stochastics-and-financial-mathematics and quarimafi.univie.ac.at.

 
Scientific Partner:

TU Wien

The TU Wien (german: Technische Universität Wien) is Austria's largest research and educational institution in the field of technology and natural sciences. More than 4,000 scientists are researching "technology for people" in five main research areas at eight faculties. The content of the studies offered is derived from the excellent research. More than 26,000 students in 62 degree programmes benefit from this. As a driver of innovation, TU Wien strengthens the business location, facilitates cooperation and contributes to the prosperity of society.

The research unit Financial and Actuarial Mathematics (FAM) @ TU Wien was founded in 1998. The research interests of the group cover active areas such as machine learning in finance and insurance, volatility modelling, interest rate theory, credit risk and insurance mathematics. The research group organises regular series of seminars on mathematical finance and actuarial mathematics to stimulate the research environment and provide practitioners with access to the most recent advances. FAM provides Bachelor and Masters education as well as doctoral degrees. It also provides full program of actuarial education to qualify as approved actuary in Austria.

For additional information visit fam.tuwien.ac.at.

 
Scientific Partner:

Wolfgang Pauli Institute (WPI) Vienna

The WPI is a "network of excellence", interdisciplinary in STEM fields like mathematics including statistics & scientific computing & machine learning, informatics, computational sciences, physics, chemistry, material science, biology, medicine, social sciences. Full members bear an excellence grant like ERC, START/Wittgenstein etc. Created and managed by scientists for scientists as a private non profit association, the WPI is a synergetic partner of public universities in Vienna and all Austria. The WPI hosts the International Research Laboratory "Institut CNRS Pauli" and similar cooperations with INRIA and INSERM.

The WPI Thematic Programme "Statistics & Stochastics and Energy & Finance" is one of the longest running thematic programs, with co-organizers from TU, WU and Uni Wien, France and all of Europe. It emphazises the unity of mathematics & statistics and strives to join the relevant groups in Vienna in actitivities with international visitors, from small working groups to (the co-organization of) larger conferences like VCMF.

For additional information visit www.wpi.ac.at.