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Jeff Courchene

FCAS, MAAA
Principal and Consulting Actuary
London, UK

Jeff Courchene is a principal and consulting actuary in Milliman’s London office, where he has been a key member of the leadership team since 2015.

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Experience

Jeff brings extensive experience to a wide range of clients covering areas that include reserving, actuarial function engagements, reinsurance, M&A, and portfolio transfers. He is a leading voice of technical matters, in particular complex reserving methods and the evaluation of reserving uncertainty.

Jeff specialises in reserving, reinsurance analysis, M&A and other portfolio transfers, and dynamic financial modeling. Jeff has experience with international property and casualty insurance in matters related to both personal and commercial lines of business in the UK, the US, and continental Europe including:

  • Leading reserve and financial condition reviews (implementing both deterministic and stochastic techniques) as part of ongoing support, a reviewing actuary role, and due diligence assignments
  • Supporting the Independent Expert in more than nine Part VII transactions since 2015
  • Leading reinsurance structure and retrocession program reviews, assessing per risk and per event protections
  • Leading methodological reviews to increase automation and improve operational efficiency as part of transformation projects
  • Supporting capital adequacy and rating adequacy assessments
  • Leading solvency II-related projects including: AFRs, ORSA projections, USP applications, and IM calibration

Jeff has experience with a range of software including Excel/VBA, Word, PowerPoint, Arius, SAS, @Risk, Access, and ResQ.

Before joining Milliman, Jeff worked at the Cologne Re (now GenRe) as a reserving and research actuary responsible for facultative and European treaty motor & general liability.

Jeff is a native speaker of English, but also speaks near fluent German.

Publications

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Reserve development in Lloyd’s syndicate data

28 March 2025 - by Jeff Courchene
To address rising social inflation, we use some benchmark observations to better predict the adequacy of reserves with the help of Lloyd’s syndicate data.
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Inflation: A P&C reserving actuary’s guide

15 March 2023 - by Alice Gutteridge, Jeff Courchene, Veekash Badal
We discuss factors that a reserving actuary may need to consider in this record-setting period of high inflation.
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Individual claim reserving models: Adding value

27 February 2019 - by Alexandre Boumezoued, Jeff Courchene
Individual claim models is an emerging area of research and practice which uses individual claim level data to estimate loss reserves.
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EIOPA Final Report on its second set of advice to the European Commission on the Solvency II Delegated Regulation

03 April 2018 - by David Burston, Eamon Comerford, Jeff Courchene, Bridget MacDonnell, John Mulvihill, Vincent Robert
This update summarises the key feedback received by the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority regarding the final report and the impact, if any, that it has had on the proposals made in the Consultation Paper.
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EIOPA Consultation Paper on its second set of advice to the European Commission on the Solvency II Delegated Regulation

20 December 2017 - by David Burston, Neil Christy, Eamon Comerford, Jeff Courchene, Emma Hutchinson, Bridget MacDonnell, John Mulvihill, Jennifer Strickland, Marie-Lise Tassoni
This briefing note summarises the final advice from the first stage of the EIOPA review and provides details on EIOPA’s proposals in the latest consultation paper on its second set of advice.
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Solvency II Standard Formula: Volume measure for premium risk

01 December 2017 - by Lamia Amouch, Jeff Courchene, Vincent Robert
In this article we summarise the advice and suggestions put forward by EIOPA regarding changes for the premium risk capital requirement calculation and definition of the volume measure.
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Extracting more value from the GI reserving process

30 September 2016 - by Jeff Courchene
By restricting quantifying reserve uncertainty to regulatory and risk assessment questions, many inherent and readily accessible benefits embedded in reserve and uncertainty analyses could be overlooked.
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Optimising non-life reinsurance strategy under risk-based capital measures

12 September 2016 - by Jeff Courchene, Vincent Robert
An exploration of the possible impact of risk-based economic capital and ERM frameworks on a non-life insurer’s reinsurance strategy.
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The actuary and enterprise risk management: Integrating reserve variability

22 August 2016 - by Jeff Courchene, Mark R. Shapland
This paper develops and examines a framework for reserve distribution testing and validation and demonstrates its use with real datasets within an enterprise risk management framework.
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Driving For Profit: A View of the UK Private and Commercial Motor Insurance Markets 2014

27 July 2015 - by Jeff Courchene, Derek Newton, Vincent Robert, Gary Wells
Driving For Profit shows the results of our analyses of the performance of the Private and Commercial Motor Insurance Markets in the UK.