📢 Research Grants for Innovation in Financial Risks and ERM
📅 Deadline Date: December 01, 2025
💡 Donor Name: International Actuarial Association
💰 Grant Size: $10,000 to $100,000
📂 Category: Grant
About the Grant
The International Actuarial Association is offering a new research grant to support original research advancing developments and innovations in financial risks, investments, and enterprise risk management (ERM).
Focus Areas
- 🌍 Climate change and its impacts on financial risks and ERM
- 💸 Financial resilience of retirement systems and insurers
- 🤖 Artificial intelligence and machine learning in risk management
- 🌐 Systemic risk in insurance and reinsurance
- 📊 Model risk, uncertainty, and their impacts on decisions
- 🧠 Behavioural risk in ERM
- 🦠 Pandemics and their impacts on financial risks
- ⚡ Parametric insurance in financial risk management
Grant Details
💵 Funding Range: CAD $20,000 to $30,000 (approx. $10,000–$100,000). 📄 Output: A scientific paper suitable for a leading journal + presentation at an AFIR-ERM webinar and colloquium. ⏳ Duration: Projects can last up to 24 months (final report within 27 months).
Proposal Requirements
- 📌 Title and short project description
- 📚 Literature review and novelty of research
- 📝 Detailed research plan with objectives, data, and methods
- 📊 Budget, milestones, and deliverables
- 👩🔬 Résumés of applicants and relevant expertise
- ⚖️ Statement confirming originality of research
- 📆 Timeline for completion with key dates
Note: Proposals must be submitted in English, under 20 pages (80,000 characters), minimum font size 12, with 1.5 line spacing. Deadline: December 1, 2025. Decisions will be announced by February 1, 2026.