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This is the archive of papers presented at our Conferences and Events in 2011.

Actuarial Careers Evening and Reception, 2 February 2011

Work in a profession that shapes how the world operates, 2 February 2011

Actuaries and the Law, 8 September 2011

The employer perspective - what risks can be managed?
Retirement round up and when is discrimination justifiable?
Hot topics: PPF questions and answers
PSDs in Practice - some revelations
Actuarial Update
Update from the regulator
Banking risks and special purpose vehicles

Advance your Career in Scotland, 10 November 2011

TalentScotland
Lloyds Banking Group - Scottish Widows
Royal Bank Scotland
Standard Life
The Actuarial Profession in Scotland

CILA II Seminar, 6 October 2011

Solvency II - update on timelines and recent developments
Actuarial Resourcing, another bubble?
Head of Actuarial Function's input into reinsurance and underwriting under Solvency II
Independent model validation - initial and ongoing challenges
Future insurance accounting standards
Just how do you manage capital over the next four years given the complete lack of certainty on Solvency II and IFRS Phase II
Minimising uncertainty in longevity risk modelling

Climate Change and Resource Depletion, 17 October 2011

Introduction to the 2011 edition of the Review
Update on the research commissioned by the Actuarial Profession into Limits to Growth

Current Issues in General Insurance (CIGI), 12 May 2011

Actuaries in a changing world
Workshop A/B1 Current issues in Ireland
Workshop A/B4 Solvency II reserving
BAS update
FSA Update
Risk in the Energy Sector
Workshop A/B5 Capital - reinsurance strategy under solvency II
Workshop A/B2 Lloyd's issues
Workshop A/B3 Insurance Telematics - understanding risk with technology
A/B4: Solvency II case study

Current Issues in Life Assurance (CILA), 25 May 2011

QIS 5 FSA update
OpRisk
Risk culture and managing it
Current life tax developments
With-profits
Gender directive

Current Issues in Pensions 2011

CMI SAPS mortality update

Current Issues in Pensions, 14 April 2011

De-risking by incentive exercises
Investment debate, Edwin Topper
Investment debate, Ian Maybury
FSDs, CNs and other legal issues
PPF levy framework
Discount rates - a new framework
Insurance mechanics

Current Issues in Pensions, 15 March 2011

Talk A: De-risking by incentive exercises
Talk B: Investment debate
Talk C: FSDs and current legal issues
Talk D: PPF levy framework
Talk E: Discount rates – a new framework
Talk F: Insurance mechanic

Current Issues in Pensions, 18 October 2011

SAPS mortality investigation update
Measuring investment risk in the PPF Levy - issues and opportunities
Enhanced Transfer Value exercises
Auto-Enrolment
Technical Actuarial Standards (TAS) - workshop discussion
Scottish Limited Partnership Pension - Scheme Funding Structure

Current Issues in Pensions, 22 November 2011

CMI SAPS Mortality Update
Measuring Investment Risk in the PPF Levy
Enhanced Transfer Values - A debate
Auto-enrolment: areas for discussion
Incentivised Transfer Exercises - The Dangers
Incentivised Transfer Exercises - The Pensions Regulator
Scottish Limited Partnership Pension - Scheme Funding Structure

Current Issues in Pensions, 29 March 2011

Talk E: Discount rates - a new framework
Talk D: PPF levy framework
Talk A: De-risking by incentive exercises
Talk F: Insurance mechanics
Talk C: FSDs, CNs and other legal issues
Talk B: Investment debate

Current Issues in Pensions, 3 November 2011

CMI SAPS Mortality Update
Enhanced Transfer Values - JLT Pension Capital Strategies
Measuring Investment Risk in the PPF Levy
Auto-enrolment: areas for discussion
Incentivised Transfer Exercises - The Dangers
Incentivised Transfer Exercises - The Pensions Regulator
Scottish Limited Partnership Pension - Scheme Funding Structure

Current Issues in Pensions, 6 October 2011

Auto-Enrolment
Enhanced Transfer Value exercises
Asset backed funding utilising Scottish Limited Partnership Structures
Measuring investment risk in the PPF Levy - issues and opportunities
Scottish Limited Partnership Pension - Scheme Funding Structure

Current Issues in Pensions, 8 March 2011

Talk D: PPF levy framework
Talk B: Investment debate
Talk E: Discount rates - a new framework
Talk A: De-risking by incentive exercises
Talk C: FSDs, CNs and other legal issues
Talk F: Insurance mechanics

Current Issues in Pensions, 9 November 2011

CMI SAPS Mortality Update
Measuring Investment Risk in the PPF Levy
Enhanced Transfer Values - A debate
Incentivised Transfer Exercises - The Dangers
Incentivised Transfer Exercises - The Pensions Regulator
Auto-enrolment: areas for discussion
Scottish Limited Partnership Pension - Scheme Funding Structure

Emerging Trends in Mortality and Longevity Symposium, 13 - 14 September 2011

B02: Comparison of cause of death trends across US, UK, France and Spain
B03: Life insurance underwriting in the United States - yesterday, today and tomorrow
D03: Evidence, underwriting and mortality
D02: Trends in mortality differences between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in the 20th Century
C02: Modelling mortality and smoking prevalence in developed countries
Plenary 2 Mortality trends in recent decades in Eastern and Western Europe: contrasts, correlates and consequences
Delgate Workshop Choices
A03: Is the loss of gender as a rating factor a major step backwards in risk assessment?
A02: Uncertainty in modelling mortality
A01: Overview of known patterns and trends in longevity
Socio demographics introduction
C01: Trends in inequalities in life expectancy at age 65 in England by socio economic circumstances: decomposing change by age and cause of death, 1981-2007
B01: Examining disease based incidence and mortality rates within the UK
D01: From fast food to fast runners: changing mix, clouding conclusions
Plenary 1 Interntational trends in mortality and longevity
C03: Survival extension from advances in cancer treatment: realised benefits and future promise

ERM for Pension Funds and their Sponsors, 21 April 2011

ERM in context
Practical insight and options for modelling

Financial Crisis puts Spotlight on ERM, 9 May 2011

How can complex systems be applied to risk appetite and emerging risks in ERM practice?
"Financial crisis puts spotlight on ERM: An ERM update on the global insurance industry"

General Insurance Pricing Seminar, 21 June 2011

E01: Time is money
E02: External data - engaging with the DVLA
A01: Changes in bodily injury claims handling and what it means for actuaries
F01: Third party motor - the journey continues. An update from the third party motor working party
D01: Pricing and underwriting: the brand effect
A02: Not pricing for John Smith: measuring the uncertainty in pricing
C01: Successful underwriting through panels and brokers
E03: Developments in commercial property pricing
F02: Cat events of 2010 and 2011
C03: Ancillary income maximisation
C02: Target technical and walk-away pricing in the London Market
B02: Insurance telematics - understanding risk with technology
D02: Offshore energy
B01: Home insurance challenges

GIRO Conference and Exhibition, 11 - 14 October 2011

B13: Understanding the insurance cycles - An agent-based modelling approach
C05: Risk appetite for a general insurance undertaking
C07: Evolutionary reserving models - are particle filters the way to go?
C11: Performance analysis at Lloyd's
F12: Update from PPO working party - pre GIRO teaser
Plenary 1: Is there madness in our methods? A reserving cycle panel discussion
C05: Risk appetite for a general insurance undertaking (Paper)
Plenary 5: CAS research update
F05: Limits to growth
F04: Colleges in operation - reflections on the approaches of different regulators
E08: Use-ful or Use-test?
A11: Applying the Insurance TAS - early reports from the front line
A15: Risk adjustment for loss reserving by a cost capital technique - paper
C12: Double chanin ladder with a touch of Bornhutter-Ferguson
C12: Double chain ladder with a touch of Bornhutter-Ferguson - version 2
Plenery 4: Articulating risk appetite
Plenary 3:Managing under pressure
B09: Undertaking-specific parameters (USPs)
D05: Tropical cyclone return periods
Plenary 3: Weathering the storm
D01: Micro-insurance working party - actuaries tackling world poverty
A07: Role of the actuarial function under Solvency II - paper
E01: Quinn - where did it all go wrong?
E12: Introduction to CAS claim simulator software
A01: Third party working party
B08: Moving across to the risk side
B12: The importance of assumption consistency when back-testing or using other validation techniques
D10: Risk margins and Solvency II
B01: EU gender directive - six months on
Plenary 2: Gender and age: Does the European model work in the UK?
Plenary 5: An optimal insurer in a post-Solvency II world
A09: Implementing the Mack model
A04: Government alternatives to handling bodily injury claims - The Victorian and New Zealand systems
A06: The marginal value of individual rating factor in pricing
C06: The impact of Solvency II on pricing practice
A12: In a capital model parameter uncertainty diversifies away?
Plenary 6: Presidential update on GI
F01: Maximum likelihood and estimation efficiency of the chain ladder
A02: For sale - an update on merger and acquisition activity in the insurance sector
D02: Alternative careers for GI actuaries
D06: Modelling the claims process - an alternative to development factor modelling
F05: Resource and environmental limits to economic growth
E02: A statistical basis for claims experience monitoring
Plenary 2: GI PEC update
Plenary 1: Why do we need data?
Periodic Payment Orders Revisited - paper
F12: Update from PPO working party
F08: Capital and excess of loss reinsurance pricing
B03: Introduction to US multi peril crop insurance and reinsurance
E11: Insights into correlations and dependencies
A07: Role of the actuarial function under Solvency II
F10: Update from the UK asbestos working party
E07: Practical experiences of modelling one-year risk emergence
C10: Solvency II and technical provisions
C10: GI ROC survey comments
C10: Survey summary
B10: The actuary's role in the ORSA
B02: Not pricing for John Smith: measuring the uncertainty in pricing
E03: The great 99.5th percentile swindle
A08: The pitfalls of curve fitting
C01: The ORSA - lessons learnt
F07: Audit is a mandatory cost...so get the most out of it
D07: Practical issues of a Model review
A15: Risk adjustment for loss reserving by a Cost of Capital technique
F03: Validating internal models - a practitioner's perspective
E07: Practical experiences of modelling one-year risk emergence
C08: Lloyd's actuarial function
UK Employers' Liability Insurance
B05:Reserve risk: are my bootstraps too tight?
E06: The underwriting and reserving cycles: up, down, round and around we go
F09: How to estimate risk margins under International Financial Reporting Standards
A01: Third party working party
B14: Global insurance programmes
F10: UK AWP Mesothelioma TSCE Model
Plenary 4: Testing the ORSA to extreme events: Japan Earthquake case study - New
Plenary 5: Beyond 2012: embedding the internal model
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B11: Redefining the deviance objective for generalised linear models - Relieving the pressure from tight fitting models
Plenary 2: How's my driving? Is Telematics the future in a sexless world?
Plenary 1: Solvency II
C02: Practical issues in the Solvency II Internal Approval Process for general insurance actuaries
E04: Linking pricing and reserving in the London Market

Health and Care Conference, 18 - 20 May 2011

Workshop choices list
A03: The current state of the NHS - what we can learn from it, lessons we have learned and insights from international best practices
Plenary 6: 2010 saw the dawn of a new era in politics - what does the future hold?
C03: Takaful insurance
D01: Pricing and products and claims - do actuaries really understand claims?
Plenary 4: What is the future for long term care?
C04: Embedding enterprise risk management (ERM) into your business
A02: Latest critical illness product - are we happy as an industry following the ABI reviews in recent years?
B02: Is terminal illness now where critical illness started out?
D02: Critical illness insurance: AC04 diagnosis rates
C01: Income protection - recent developments/pricing challenges
B01: Current and future reserving practices for healthcare products (CI survey results)
B01: Current and future reserving practices for healthcare products (IP survey results)
Presidential update
B01: Current and future reserving practices for healthcare products
E02: Does where you live influence your critical illness claim rates?
Plenary 1: Rethinking our attitudes to work and illness
E03: Corporate governance and own risk and solvency assessment (ORSA) under the Solvency II regime
Plenary 2: The potential impact of Solvency II on the health and care market
C2: Playing the definitions game: what value in doing "more"?
B03: Global private medical insurance (PMI) utilisation patterns: habit or hiatus?
D03: Risk-based decision making in private medical insurance
B04: How will the relative importance of prevention and treatment change in driving future mortality improvements?
E04: How can we protect the lower socio-economic groups?
Critical illness insurance: AC04 diagnosis rates
E01: No more tiers! - A practical look at the impact of Solvency II on a critical illness portfolio

Highlights of the 2010 Life Conference, 17 February 2011

B01: Aggregation techniques for Solvency II: a practical example
A01: What keeps CEO’s awake at night?
B02: TASs – what an actuary needs to know in practice
C02: Taxation in a Solvency II world
Plenary 2: Yield curve dynamics and implications for insurers
A02: IMAP update
Plenary 1: Insurance accounting: Phase II and implications
C01: The implications of QIS5 for UK companies

Highlights of the 2010 Life Conference, 8 March 2011

Plenary 1: Insurance accounting: Phase II and implications
Plenary 2: Yield curve dynamics and implications for insurers
A01: What keeps CEO’s awake at night?
A02: IMAP update
B01: Aggregation techniques for Solvency II: a practical example
B02: TASs – what an actuary needs to know in practice
C01: The implications of Q1S5 for UK companies
C02: Taxation in a Solvency II world

Highlights of the Pensions Conference, 21 September 2011

Legal risks for actuaries and consultants
Intangible asset securitisation
The new pensions tax regime
TAS in action
Covenant in practice
Investment Implications of RPI to CPI

Highlights of the Pensions Conference, 4 October 2011

Intangible asset securitisation
Legal risks for actuaries and consultants
Covenant in practice
The new pensions tax regime
TAS in action

Implications of the TASs for Insurance Actuaries, 20 April 2011

Implications of the TASs for insurance actuaries
Insurance TAS: an overview
Data TAS
Insurance TAS
TAS M
TAS R
Implications of the TASs for insurance actuaries - seminar case studies
Financial reporting
Pricing, business reorganisations and the exercise of discretion

Implications of the TASs for Insurance Actuaries, 9 March 2011

Insurance TAS: an overview
Implications of the TASs for insurance actuaries
Data TAS
Insurance TAS
TAS M
TAS R

International Microinsurance Conference - Learning Sessions, 30 June 2011

Introduction to Microinsurance - oportunities and barriers
How to insure the poor? Evidence from academic research
How to provide insurance without data?
Status of international policy development
Improving farmers' access to agricultural insurance in India
Roundtable dicussion: is there a profit serving the poor?
Roundtable dicussion: is there a profit serving the poor?
Improving farmers' access to agricultural insurance in India
Roundtable dicussion: is there a profit serving the poor?

Investment Strategy for Pensions Actuaries Seminar, 5 April 2011

Commodities: strategic impact for pension schemes
Equity investing: age of active?
How fee structures affect manager risk taking
Bond outlook: interesting times!
Private equity: latest from the private side

Launch of CANUK, 2 December 2011

Chinese Actuarial Network launch event, 2 December 2011
The case for usage-based insurance. Telematics-based insurance revolution
Actuaries in China
Launch of the Chinese Actuarial Network UK (CANUK). MP3 sound recording

Legal principles: what can go wrong?, 14 February 2011

Legal principles: What can go wrong?

Life Conference and Exhibition, 20 - 22 November 2011

D04: Why are accountants better insurance company CFO's than actuaries?
A11: What about the customer?
B11: Can annuity writers hedge their interest and inflation risk?
F05: Microinsurance - a transformative experience for actuaries without borders
Life 2011 Delegate Workshop Choices
A08: Liabilities as an asset...fad, friend or foe?
A09: Current challenges in product pricing
D01: The life industry in China
D06: NLP - the language of the mind
E05: Life's cheap, but who's buying?
E06: Takaful and retakaful - challenges and opportunities for actuaries
E09: Solvency II: regulatory round-up and steps to implementation
F01: Developments in reverse stress testing
G03: How can actuaries transform the effectiveness of consumer information?
G06: Impact of Solvency II on investment strategy and the financial markets
G11: Sovereign credit-risk and international mergers and acquisitions
Plenary 4: We can work it out
A03: Automated underwriting - the hidden strategic value
E03: Solvency II internal model challenges and benefits
F08: Prudential and Solvency II - internal model calibration challenges for with-profits
G08: Groups issues and structures in a Solvency II context
G07: The greatest challenge facing ageing societies
A07: How to hedge the risk-free rate under Solvency II
C09: Life insurance products - why do we under-sell our products?
A12: Measure for measure: value creation metrics in life - how to define return and reward performance
C06: Transferring business overseas
G09: Practicalities with implementing tax within Solvency II
A02: Differentiation of discrimination?
G05: The impact of cancer trends on life insurers - a worldwide perspective
F03: Efficient curve fitting techniques
C04: Extreme Value Theory for Calibrating 1-in-200 Stress Tests
E07: Liquidity and investment strategy
C10: Current and future reserving practices for healthcare products
E02: Capital projections - evolution or revolution?
G04: Maximising the value of distribution in a changing landscape
D08: Knowledge management in the actuarial world
F10: Questioning the future of MCEV/EEV in a Solvency II world
D09: Applying the insurance TAS - early reports from the front line
G10: Impact of IFRS4 Phase II – a rating agency perspective
E08: The Developing Role of the Actuarial Function
E11: Embedding stress testing as part of an integrated risk management framework
D11: FanTAStic or caTAStrophic? An update on TAS implementation
A01: Using Least-Squares Monte Carlo for capital calculation
A04: Fractals markets
B08: Has mortality pricing gone mad?
B10: Opening the bonnet on economic scenario generation for Solvency II
F04: Mortality models for multiple populations using covariates
F06: Assets within personalised funds - does default matter?
C02: Developing an internal model for a medium-sized comany
C03: Solvency II risk-adjusted performance measures
D02: War games using interactive workshops to communicate Solvency II capabilities
C08: Market reporting - getting your message across to create value
F07: Solvency II - will it radically change the purchasing of reinsurance?
F12: Financial and regulatory reporting parallels with the banking industry and implications for capital managment
G01: Stable measures of risk capital
Plenary 2: Opportunities and challenges in a changing world
H01: The sting in the tail
H03: Central clearing - a risk management own goal?
B06: Making insurance less sexy
B01: Using operational risk to deliver shareholder value and meet regulatory expectations
F02: The Solvency II switchover - the challenges with transition
Plenary 4: We can work it out
A10: The changing landscape of with-profits business
G02: The need for actuaries to embrace new technology
D05: Effective execution of transactions
H02: LPI market - LPT, fatal floors in BPA pricing
B03: Capital aggregation under Solvency II
B05: Tax after Solvency II
B09: IFRS 4 Phase 2 - it's time to get serious
B12: The UK life market in 2011 and beyond - a rating agency perspective
A05: Science non-fiction genetics and insurance
C01: Embedding a daily solvency monitoring capability for risk managament under Solvency II
C07: What alternative investments are of interest to life companies
C12: International experience of internal model approval - a level playing field?
D12: Ex-post justification (the dangers of plausible explanations)
E01: Counterparty risks within groups
G01: Stable measures of risk capital
D07: Alternative careers and future of the insurance actuary
E04: Stress testing and scenario modelling of longevity
F11: The role of the actuary in enterprise risk management (ERM)
B02: ORSA - from regulation to reality
B07: The future of the Actuarial Function

Masterclass: Written Communications, 7 November 2011

Recommended pre-reading
Exercise
Masterclass: Written Communications - slides
Better Business Writing - Handbook
Note on TAS R

Momentum Conference, 30 November - 2 December 2011

A04:Periodical Payment Orders (PPOs)
A05: Practical issues with SPVs
B04: Changes in bodily injury claims handling
D04: ERM for emerging risks in general insurance
D04: ERM for emerging risks in general insurance - paper
E03: Managing currency risk in pension funds
Plenary 2: From global consultancy to founding specialist firm
Plenary 3: Whistleblowing - A guide for actuaries - April 2011
Plenary 2: Wider fields
Plenary 3: The Actuaries' Code
Plenary 3: Conflicts of interest - guide
Soft skills 2: Story telling
Soft skills 3: Body language
Soft skills 4: Image
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B01: Legal issues - pensions issues on a corporate transaction
C01: Experience of the pensions regulators
D03: The problems with funding
D05: Calibration of risk distributions (a how to)
A01: Defined contribution
A03: Geometry of finance
C02: Risk management's important, ORSA they say...
D02: Do enhanced annuities damage the market? An investigation into risidual standard mortality
A02 UK life in 2011 and beyond
E02: Impact of IFRS 4 phase II
E04: Quinn insurance
E05: Actuaries in ERM
B05: EU gender ruling - nine months on
B02: Latest CI product - are we happy as an industry following the ABI reviews in recent years?
C03: Driving growth in different economic scenarios
C04: Catastrophe models: inputs, outputs, uncertainty and Solvency II
Plenary 2: Breaking the actuarial mould
Momentum Conference 2011: Plenary 1: Victim or chooser (having a winning attitude to what lies ahead)
D05: Calibration of risk distributions (a how to)
E01: The company's view of its covenant and how it approaches corporate activity
Soft skills 1: Dynamic Presentation
D01: Why you will live to 100 (or not)
Momentum Conference 2011: Plenary 3: Shamelessly unprofessional - what would you do in this situation?

Mortality and Longevity Seminar, 22 March 2011

Weighted mortality experience analysis
Stochastic methods for managing longevity risk
Mortality trend risk
Scheme specific mortality trends and basis risk
Modelling and projecting mortality improvement rates
How do reinsurers view pension plan longevity?
Variations within portfolios - why it matters
Latest insights from the CMI
Understanding and managing uncertainty in mortality - related cashflows

Networking Event: Environmental Change: Opportunities for Actuaries, 13 September 2011

Nick Silver
Ian Smith and Tom Porter
Oliver Bettis and Barry Maher
Tessa Page

Networking Event: What Keeps a CRO Awake at Night?, 2 June 2011

What keeps a CRO awake at night?

Open Forum: Calibrating and Communicating Dependence, 18 July 2011

Calibrating and Communicating Dependence

Open Forum: Does diversification exist in a global market?, 25 May 2011

Absolute return investing with equity and fixed income, E Munro
Open Forum: Does diversification exist in a global market?

Open Forum: Does Strategy Risk Exist?, 27 October 2011

Strategy Risk - The Case For and Against!

Open Forum: Employer Covenant: What it Means and its Impact on Pension Funding and Investment, 12 May 2011

Open Forum: Employer covenant: What it means and its impact on pension funding and investment

Open Forum: ERM opportunities for pensions actuaries, 17 March 2011

ERM in practice
Overview
Sound file. Open forum: ERM opportunities for pension actuaries. 17 March 2011

Open Forum: Mortality Projections, 19 January 2011

The latest CMI model and discussion of current practice

Open Forum: Sovereign Debt Crisis and the Future of the Euro, 25 March 2011

Open forum: sovereign debt crisis and the future of the Euro

Open Forum: the 'Test-Achats' Judgement and its Impact on UK Life Insurers, 12 April 2011

Open forum: the 'Test-Achats' judgement and its impact on UK life insurers

Open Forum: the 'Test-Achats' Judgement and its Impact on UK Life Insurers, 30 March 2011

Open forum: the 'Test-Achats' judgement and its impact on UK life insurers. Session slides

Open Forum: the Pensions TAS in Practice, 6 July 2011

The Pensions TAS in Practice

ORSA - Bigger Picture Thinking, 29 September 2011

The latest from the FSA and EIOPA
The ORSA and actuarial modelling
Introduction to the ORSA
Risk appetite - the cornerstone of the ORSA
Bringing it all together in an ERM framework

Our Changing Future Open Forum: Pension Schemes - are there Lessons to be Learned from Insurers?, 8 June 2011

Pension Schemes: Are there lessons to be learned from Insurers?

Our Changing Future Open Forum: Retail Distribution Review, 23 June 2011

Our Changing Future Open Forum: Retail Distribution Review
Our Changing Future Open Forum: Retail Distribution Review

Our Changing Future Open Forum: Sovereign Debt Crisis - and the Future of the Euro, 11 October 2011

Sovereign Debt Crisis - and the Future of the Euro

Pensions Conference, 1 - 3 June 2011

A03: Communicating with members in a DC world
B04: Measuring DB schemes
C03: Public sector schemes
D04: Making difficult conversations doable
Plenary 1: Our economic future - what next?
Plenary 3: Enterprise wide risk management and pension risk in action
Plenary 3: Pension fund risk
E05: Intangible assest securitisation
E02: The Pension Protection Levy
Plenary 1: Our economic future - what next? (2)
E04: Latest developments in pension risk transfer solutions
B02: Covenant in practice
C02: A new way of looking at employer covenant
A05: What lawyers and trustees want from actuaries
C04: How well do you know the new TAS standards?
A02: RPI to CPI Investment implications
E03: Pension schemes - are there lessons to be learned from insurers?
B03: Defined contribution: the latest thinking for the new environment
A01: Mortality in 2011 and beyond
C01: Monitoring longevity and demographic trends
E01: Touchy feely stuff
C05: The new pensions tax regime
D02: Schrodinger's pension fund
D03: Public sector schemes
B01: Longevity risk management
B05: What are my options?
HT TAS in action
D01: A framework for the use of discount rates in actuarial work
Mortality in 2011 and beyond - an update from the CMI SAPS committee
HT EU pensions - what you need to know

Pensions, Benefits and Social Security Colloquium, 25 - 27 September 2011

A04: Automatic balancing mechanisms and Social Security - paper
B02: Risk Sharing Design Schemes - paper
B02: Modern Pension Scheme Designs
F02: Derisking Pension Plans Using Financial Solutions
D04: Getting the balance of state and private provision right
A01: Public Pension Policy
A05: The role of actuaries in defined contribution
B01: Modeling mortality trend risk
B03: Managing the decumulation phase
B04: Guidelines for social security actuaries
B05: Inheritance gains in Notional Defined Contributions accounts (NDCs)
C05: Are there any conflicts between accounting valuations and funding valuations?
C05: Reduction of miscalculation risk of defined benefit obligation
D02: Outcome based approach to retirement and other benefits
D04: Optimal diversification in pension funding
D05: Feedback effects of default insurance for defined benefit schemes
D05 Postretirement benefit protection against insolvency
D05: Feedback effects of default insurance for defined benefit schemes - paper
E02: Pension reform in Canada
F04: ERM for pension funds and their sponsors
B01: The CMI mortality projections model
B04: Guidelines for social security actuaries and technicians
E02: Pension reform in Canada 2
F03: Standards of practice should they be international?
B02: Dimensional managed DC
B03: Managing the deculmulation phase 2
F04: ERM for pension funds and their sponsors 2
A04: Automatic balance mechanisms
E04: Role of the actuary in DC schemes
Plenary 5: Pension reforms revisited
D01: Fees and Capital Requirements
D01: Fees and Capital Requirements - paper
E05: Making Pension Savings Attractive
A01: An assessment of the Government's options for state pension reform - paper
B03: Policy options for the payout phase - paper
B03: Transparency and competition in the choice of pension products: The Chilean and UK experience - paper
A02: The new IAS 19
C0:1 Pension reform in China
Plenary 2: Guarantee funds
Plenary 2: Managing the Pension Protection Fund
C03: Acknowledging Uncertainity in Longevity
A04: Automatic balancing mechanisms and Social Security
B05: Pouring pension savings into the international financial black hole
B05: Pouring pension savings into the international financial black hole - paper
Plenary 1: Automatic Enrolment, Participation and Adequacy
C01: Indicators of old age pension benefits in Latin America and the Caribbean
F01: Professional Conduct Issues
F01: The Actuaries' Code - paper
C04: Financing pensions for public sector workers
F03: Standards of practice - should they be international?
Plenary 3: The Irish Pensions Scene
D03: Capital requirements and the role of the sponsor
E01: Challenges of Longevity
C05: Accounting and Funding
E03: Discount rates
C03: Challenges of Longevity
F04: Standards of practise should they be international?
C03: Challenges of longevity - updated post event
B05: Pouring pension savings into the international financial black hole -paper
PBSS Colloquium - final round up

Professionalism: Should you Speak up or Should you Blow the Whistle? How Do you Decide?, 18 November 2011

Making Whistleblowing Work
Whistleblowing should you speak up or report? How do you decide?

Professionalism: Should you Speak up or Whistle Blow? How do you Decide?, 9 February 2011

Professionalism: should you speak up or whistle blow? How do you decide?

Reserving seminar, 23 November 2011

Communicating uncertainty
IFRS phase II accounting for non-life insurance contracts
Insurance TAS awareness
What Companies Expect from a Reserving Actuary
Solvency II Technical Provisions
The Reserving Cycle
Latent Claims Update
Bodily Injury Update and Periodical Payment Orders

Risk and Investment Conference, 19 - 21 June 2011

A01: Designing products under the FSA's evolving TCF rules
A02: Risk Appetite and Risk Limits - How to ensure top down appetite is consistent with bottom up limits working party
A03: Investing to meet long term inflation hedging working party
C02: Replicating portfolios for value-added ALM risk management
D01: To boldly go where no ERM has gone before - ERM research that defined the future
D02: Operational risk management working party
C03: Investment products for retirement savings
Plenary 7: Investment and Risk Management - a view from off the beaten track
Plenary 4: Applications of Complexity Science
Plenary 2: Intergenerational Fairness
B01: Longevity Risk: Trends, Issues and Opportunities
E03: Corporate Bond Yield Curves working party
D03: Alternative Assets; Practical Implementation and How they performed in the crisis working party
E01: Reasons for Insurance Company Failures working party
B02: Journey Plans and Dynamic De-risking
E02: Calculating and Communicating Tail Dependencies
B03: Stable Tail Measures of Risk Capital working party
Plenary 5: A CRO's Perspective
Plenary 6: Liquidity and investment strategy

Risk Management in Life Insurance. 23 March 2011

Allocating Diversification Benefits & Fungibility
Emerging Risk
Plenary 4: Risk Appetite
Plenary 1: Solvency II

Scottish TAS Open Forum: the Insurance TAS, its Application and Implications in Life and Health, 22 June 2011

Scottish TAS Open Forum: the Insurance TAS, its application and implications in life and health.

The Latest Issues Surrounding Catastrophe Modelling, 29 March 2011

Plenary 6: CAT modelling update from EQECAT
Plenary 11: Social networks: the key to understanding the frequency of catastrophe terrorism losses
Plenary 10: Value of seasonal hurricane forecasting
Plenary 3: The new Lloyd’s CAT Model
Plenary 1: Janus, Cerberus or Hydra? Where Solvency II and business meet
Solvency II – Use of external models and RMS response
CAT modelling update from AIR
Modelling personal accident catastrophe
Using multiple catastrophe models

The Life Insurer Taxation seminar, 11 May 2011

The Life Insurer Taxation seminar

Unravelling the complexity of risk, 13 January 2011

Unravelling the complexity of risk

With-Profits Business - the Next Step, 25 October 2011

Prospects for the future of with-profits
Implications of Solvency II