The actuarial research and training centre insurers asked for.
Joint research with Singapore Management University, hands-on training, and senior actuarial talent — based in Singapore, focused on the regulatory and product shifts reshaping life insurance in 2026 and beyond. Open to insurer co-research partnerships.
Anchored in Singapore's actuarial ecosystem
SMU
Joint research & training
SOA · ASM
Platinum Sponsor · KL 2025
Senior Talent
Senior actuaries relocated to SG
Singapore
MAS-aligned governance
Built in partnership with Singapore Management University
Preparing an industry for change requires more than technology. It requires the people, the research, and the shared language between practitioners, regulators, and academics. That is why the Innovation Centre is anchored by a joint research and training collaboration with Singapore Management University.
Together with SMU, we are investing in the next generation of actuarial professionals — combining rigorous academic research with production-grade engineering experience, so that life insurers have both the tools and the talent to lead the transition.
Joint research
Applied research on the challenges life insurers face now — AI governance, product innovation, and regulatory response.
Joint training
Structured programmes that bring academic depth and engineering practice into the same curriculum for working actuaries.
Next-generation talent
A sustained pipeline of Singapore-trained actuaries and data scientists, exposed to real industry problems from day one.
Shared IP & knowledge
Publications, methodology papers, and open teaching materials that raise the baseline of actuarial practice in the region.
How production-grade models are structured, explained, and maintained
The teaching framework behind our SMU workshop — the concepts we believe future actuaries should be exposed to early: not by abandoning Excel, but by understanding how professional models are structured beyond it.
"Where numbers come from, how changes propagate, and how results can be validated, explained, and maintained over time."
What the Centre has been doing
We believe credibility is earned through named, dated work — not promises. Two recent examples of how we are engaging the actuarial profession.
SMU × StrinGaze Actuarial Modelling Workshop
Singapore Management University · Actuarial Science students
A hands-on workshop with SMU bridging classroom concepts with real-world actuarial workflows. Students worked with familiar Excel-based cashflow models and were introduced to how production-grade systems structure product logic, assumptions, dependencies, and results — so every number can be traced and explained end-to-end.
The objective was not to replace actuarial theory, but to help students develop modelling intuition — where numbers come from, how changes propagate, and how results can be validated and maintained over time.
ASM–SOA Joint Seminar: Actuarial Modelling in the AI Era
Society of Actuaries · Actuarial Society of Malaysia
StrinGaze was Platinum Sponsor at the 2025 ASM–SOA Joint Seminar. Our CEO, Liu Yi, led a session on why many actuarial systems struggle today: increasing complexity, fragmented task-based workflows, and weak ownership that slow productivity more than raw computation speed.
The shift is toward role-based actuarial frameworks — designed around clear responsibilities, stronger context, and end-to-end accountability. Combined with AI connectivity, this enables better governance, higher adaptability, and more meaningful automation.
What life insurers need to be ready for
The market, the regulators, and the labs are driving the change. Our role is to make sure the actuarial tooling — and the talent using it — is ready for whatever form that change takes.
AI applied to actuarial work, not to actuarial slides.
Every AI capability we ship starts from a real workflow our team has run themselves — assumption setting, reconciliation review, model documentation. If the actuary doesn't want it, we don't build it. Built by senior actuaries and engineers in Singapore, shipped into the same engine that runs your close.
Equipped for medical rider reform
Medical rider regimes are being redesigned in many markets — Singapore is leading the wave, with similar reforms reaching elsewhere. Our role is to make sure the actuarial tooling is ready: the pricing, reserving, and portfolio-management capabilities insurers need to respond confidently, whatever final form the reforms take.
The product types insurers are actually launching — already configurable.
IUL with indexed crediting, participating funds with complex bonus mechanics, and the kinds of stress and sensitivity logic these products demand — already in the engine. We don't design the products. We make sure the actuarial tooling is ready when your team does.
Senior actuarial talent, based in Singapore
The Centre is staffed by senior actuaries and engineers recruited internationally and relocated to Singapore — concentrating expertise close to the insurers and regulators who need it.
Partner with our Singapore team
Running an insurer AI lab? Preparing for medical rider reform? Launching a new IUL or participating design? We'd welcome the conversation — and where it makes sense, the joint work that follows.