Karsten Van Assel

Actuaris bij a.s.r. | Actuary AG

Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

About

Since secondary school, the financial sector is one of my major interests in life. The dynamics and magnitude of the financial sector's impact on society fascinates me. This lead to graduating with distinction in Quantitative Finance and Actuarial Science at Tilburg University. During my studies, I developed analytical skills that made me deepen my financial interest. Besides developing my analytical skills, I focused on developing my soft skills by breaking financial concepts down. without oversimplifying them, when solving or presenting a project. In my professional career, I first focussed on improving my coding skills by automating existing manual frameworks to (web-)tools. Later, I combined this skill with actuarial decision-making based on my data-driven analyses.

Experience

  • WIA Actuaris at a.s.r. verzekeringen
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Actuaris at Acture
    Mar 2023 - Apr 2026 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    - Development and validation of the WGA ERD pricing model. - Development, validation and maintenance of inflow, outflow and reserving models. - Preparation of renewal proposals for expiring WGA policies based on claims development, portfolio dynamics, and market trends. - Alignment with risk carriers on risk developments and translation into portfolio and pricing strategy.

  • Specialist Balance Sheet Management at Lifetri Groep
    Sep 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

    - Model development and automisation of existing actuarial reporting and asset management processes from Excel to R. - Valuation of new asset classes. - Longevity reinsurance.

  • Graduate Intern Financial Risk Management at Achmea
    Sep 2020 - Mar 2021 · 7 mos

    Improving the replicating portfolio's performance for life insurance liabilities by creating a hybrid optimization between cash-flow matching in the base scenario and market-value matching in the stress scenarios.

  • Tutor at AthenaStudies
    Oct 2018 - Sep 2020 · 2 yrs

    Preparing and tutoring mathematics classes for premaster and bachelor economics students. Average received grade; 8.15 (0 to 10)