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Insurance Innovators Nordics – Dynamo Competition Terms and Conditions

20/03/23

View the Insurance Innovators Nordics Dynamo Competitions Terms and Conditions – Dynamo Competition Terms and Conditions – Insurance Innovators Nordics

InsuranceERM Reserving Solution of the Year

17/03/23

Psicle was recently awarded Reserving Solution of the Year in InsuranceERM’s Annual Awards 2023!

Be sure to read InsuranceERM’s interview with Adrian Ericsson and Shil Patel-Rae where they explain how we can make your reserving process fit for the future.

International Women’s Day 2023

08/03/23

Dynamo currently has 82 employees, 41% of which are women. Being part of a team of strong women is inspirational, so to celebrate International Women’s Day we chatted with some of our Dynamites about themselves, and their experiences throughout their careers. What ‘career’ means to you is as unique as the person you are, so […]

Dynamo Analytics secures firm-wide ISO 27001 Certification

16/02/23

Dynamo has achieved certification against the respected international ISO 27001 standard in recognition of the implementation of our Information Security Management System (ISMS). Director and Group Head of Technology, Hannes van Rensburg, says: “Following a 2-year investment into this project, our certification supports our ambition to be the international market-leading provider of choice for hosting and […]

Welcome Nathalie & Charlotte

25/01/23

Nathalie joined Dynamo in January 2023 as Group Head of HR in the London office. Nathalie has over 15 years’ experience, gained across multiple jurisdictions and a range of industries, including legal, financial services and technology. Nathalie has a solution oriented mindset to dealing with challenges, juggles multiple projects and is adept at forming relationships in complex, matrix structured organisations.

Inflation adaptation: how reserving actuaries are changing tack

20/01/23

Anomalously high levels of inflation were a global hot topic in 2022 and are expected to persist into 2023. As a consequence, many general insurance actuaries revisited how they allow for inflation in their modelling of claims reserves; we reflect on a range of approaches observed in different parts of the world.

Welcome to our 2023 SA Graduates!

18/01/23

We are excited to welcome our 2023 South African Graduates to the team.

Driaan-Lou joined Dynamo in January of 2023 as an Actuarial Graduate in the Stellenbosch office. He studied actuarial science at the University of the Free State and Graduated with an Honours degree at the end of 2022, finishing the A100 and A200 subjects. He intends on becoming a fully qualified actuary and is currently studying toward this goal.

Welcome Aron & Mason

10/01/23

Aron joined Dynamo in January 2023 as an Actuarial Graduate in the Australian office. He recently completed a Bachelor of Actuarial Science and a Bachelor of Science with majors in Mathematics and Statistics from Monash University. He is currently working towards attaining FIAA. He is very excited to join Dynamo and to expand his technical and non-technical skillsets through the implementation of actuarial processes.

Consulting Firm of the Year 2022

10/01/23

We are delighted to have won “Consulting Firm of the Year” in the Insurance Asia News Awards for Excellence 2022. This is a wonderful recognition of the outstanding work delivered by our international colleagues.  

As we look to the future and in response to the award, group director Shil-Patel Rae, says:   

“We are honoured to be recognised with this award as we ambitiously develop our international presence, most recently with the launch of our Australian office, bringing value to new clients in the Asia Pacific region, supporting our existing clients, and building on our consulting team’s reputation for delivering effective large-scale actuarial transformations.” 

Welcome Annabelle & Edela

21/11/22

Annabelle joined Dynamo's Actuarial team in November 2022 as a Senior Analyst. Annabelle is an Associate Actuary with the Actuaries Institute of Australia and graduated from UNSW with a double degree in Actuarial Studies and Economics, majoring in Financial Economics in 2019.

Dynamo 5K Challenge 2022

04/10/22

This year Dynamites and friends returned to an in person event in London, to take on the 5K challenge and participated in the City vs Wharf 5k.

The Dynamo 5K has evolved from a London race with a few clients, to a global virtual 5K, with all that we know, in the promotion of wellbeing, the chance to connect and most importantly, earn this seasons, much coveted Dynamo 5K t-shirt.

Welcome Etienne, David & Simon

27/09/22

Etienne joined Dynamo in September 2022 as an Actuarial Graduate in the UK office. He recently completed his MSc in Actuarial Management with Data Science from Heriot-Watt University and is currently working towards IFoA accreditation. Etienne has experience with languages including R, Python, VBA and MATLAB and is interested in how Machine Learning can be incorporated into actuarial processes.

Welcome Theo, Simba, Bal, Cayleigh & Denè

05/09/22

Theo joined Dynamo in July 2022 as an Actuarial Analyst in the UK office. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 2016 with a degree in maths. Out of university Theo worked in programmatic media trading for two years in Soho before joining Aon as an actuarial graduate. In the four years at Aon he advised trustee and corporate clients on funding, factors and long term objectives amongst other things. He is working towards becoming a qualified actuary.

Welcome Claire, Victoria, Selem & Kieran

08/05/22

Claire joined Dynamo in April 2022 as a Finance & Office Assistant in the UK office. She is working toward completing her AAT qualification. Prior to joining Dynamo, Claire worked as an Accounts Assistant for a property management company as well as for chartered accounting practices. She has gained a good understanding of finances and business administration/support.

10 Years of Dynamo

12/05/22

This May marks Dynamo's 10 year anniversary!

Welcome Luca, Halima and Tadi

23/03/22

LUCA FARRER Luca joined Dynamo Analytics’ London office as a Consultant in March 2022. Since obtaining a first class degree in Economics and Management from the University of Oxford in 2018, she has worked at PwC, where she qualified as a general insurance Actuary. Whilst at PwC, Luca worked across various projects from general insurance […]

Dynamo 5K Challenge 2021

07/12/21

The Dynamo 5K challenge was yet again a success for 2021. With t-shirts delivered, the 5K challenge commenced, with over 62 participants and 2 Dynamite dogs. Throughout the week we had runners and walkers send through their times and photos, from Australia, Norway, Mauritius, South Africa, Bermuda, France, the UK and the USA.

50 Dynamites and counting!

28/09/21

We are immensely proud of the journey we are on, and our team that together make this happen! Thank you Dynamites

Why we think ally ship is critical to equality at Dynamo

08/03/21

GENDER EQUALITY IN FOCUS – CELEBRATING INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY   Actuarial science is a job that constantly asks the question, “what if?”. One of the biggest questions we can ask right now is “what if there was a level playing field for female talent in the actuarial profession?” There has been a lot of discourse […]

Dynamo 5K Challenge 2020

25/11/20

For the past two years, we have taken part in the City vs Wharf 5K run in London. This year, as we were unable to run together, we took the run global and invited the ‘Dynamo & friends’ team to join us for a virtual run. We wanted to set the challenge to encourage everyone […]

InsuranceERM’s Reserving Solution of the Year 2020

10/02/20

We’re absolutely delighted to have won InsuranceERM’s “Reserving Solution of the Year” award for 2020. In 2018 we expanded our cutting-edge Psicle ecosystem to include insurance reserving functionality, to strong interest from our current and potential clients. This expands our current suite of analytical and reporting capabilities to include a complex process core to all […]

Dynamite Team Building

20/05/19

Last week, each office took on the challenge of an escape room. We were split into four teams to see who could complete their mission in the quickest time. The two UK teams had the same mission – to infiltrate a command centre and destroy a mind controlling satellite. The SA teams had two different […]

Dynamo Indaba 2018

28/11/18

Last week, we held the 5th edition of our annual Dynamo conference, more fondly known as the Dynamo Indaba! Following recent trips to Barcelona and Florence, we decided to keep it local this year and give our South African dynamites a chance to experience the British countryside.  We packed up our warm coats, woolly hats […]

City vs Wharf 5K Run 2018

17/09/18

On Thursday, we switched our city garments for bright orange Dynamo t-shirts to take on the challenge of running the City vs Wharf 5k.  This was a challenge which could not be done alone, so we gathered our clients to take it on with us.  United by the orange t-shirt, we met at our office […]

7 DAYS TO 7 SECONDS

07/12/17

How can you condense your financial and statistical processes from 7 days to 7 seconds? Find out how the market is moving, from Adrian’s GIRO presentation in the link below. 7 days to 7 seconds

J.P. Morgan Run 2017

11/07/17

On Wednesday night Dynamo entered their very first team into the J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge in London. The J.P. Morgan Corporate Challenge is a 3.5 mile (5.6km) race series that is a global celebration of teamwork, camaraderie and community, providing an excellent opportunity to connect with clients and corporate neighbours whilst promoting health within the […]

Office move and fit out

02/06/17

Tuesday 2nd June 2017 was a big day for the Dynamo UK office. We moved out of serviced offices to our own premises on Fenchurch Street! The lead up to this move consisted of multiple swatches: blind material, chair fabric, partition textures, kitchen tops… you name it, we probably looked at it! All of which […]

Outsourced Partner of the year finalist

02/11/15

We are pleased to say that Dynamo has been shortlisted in the Outsourced Partner of the Year category at the Data, Analytics & Technology Awards for Insurance 2015 hosted by Incisive Media. The award recognises excellence in the provision of IT systems and services, and it was the work conducted for Charles Taylor Managing Agency […]

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