Conrad Beyers

Prof Beyers is an Associate Professor and currently appointed as the Absa Africa Chair in Actuarial Science at the University of Pretoria. He has a PhD in Pure Mathematics and is a qualified Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary, through both the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK) and the Actuarial Society of South Africa. Prof Beyers is involved in interdisciplinary research projects in a range of areas including extreme risk modelling (including sovereign credit ratings), banking (systemic risk modelling) and finance. He is part of a research group that applies advanced modelling techniques to financial risk problems such as financial fraud detection, big data analytics and the modelling of interdependent financial or social networks (both in a research and consulting capacity).

Articles by Conrad Beyers

Original research

The loss optimization of loan recovery decision times using forecast cashflows

In this paper, a theoretical method is empirically illustrated in finding the best time to forsake a loan such that the overall credit loss is minimized.

01 Feb 2022