Professionalism events

For more information regarding professionalism events for experienced actuaries, please refer to the professional skills training handbook
Event date:
13 September 2012

Actuaries and the Law

Our annual event on the legal developments in the pensions industry is back and this year Pitmans Trustees Limited have kindly helped us prepare the programme. This event is now fully booked, if you would like to attend please contact Nicola ... read more >>

Event date:
12 September 2012

Networking Event: Replacing the Theory of Efficient Markets - Implications for Policy and Practice

This event looks at research from LSE on new finance theories and is a great opportunity to network. Benefits of attending? For the past five years economics at LSE and the University of Toulouse have been developing new finance theories, showing how ... read more >>

Event date:
11 September 2012

The Actuarial Teachers' and Researchers' Conference

Following on from last year's success, the conference will continue the theme of bridging the gap between academics and practitioners. The Actuarial Teachers' and Researchers' Conference is the only actuarial conference with a research and education focus ... read more >>

Event date:
10 September 2012

OCF Open Forum: How to Hedge the Risk Free Rate under Solvency II

Registration: 17.30 - 18.00 Programme: 18.00 - 19.00 This is a presentation on motivations and methods for hedging Solvency II Technical Provisions against movements in the reference risk-free rate of interest. Particular attention is paid to liabilities ... read more >>

Event date:
06 September 2012

European Actuarial Journal conference

Covers life and pension insurance mathematics, non-life insurance mathematics, risk management and Solvency II, financial mathematics with applications in insurance and economics of insurance. ... read more >>

Event date:
05 September 2012

CBOE Risk Management Conference Europe 2012

The conference will cover: Forecasting volatility and volatility as an asset class Hedging insurance products with listed equity derivatives Mapping cross-asset financial market stress and hedging macro portfolios Cross-asset relative value volatility ... read more >>

Event date:
17 August 2012

Overview of the Solvency II Programme, Pillar 1 and Pillar 2

Just as there are a thousand hamlets in a thousand people's eyes, there are a thousand versions of Solvency II in a thousand actuaries’ mind. Haijing Wang, working as a Solvency II actuary and based in London, will talk about the Solvency II programme ... read more >>

Event date:
16 August 2012

Overview of the Solvency II Programme, Pillar 1 and Pillar 2

Just as there are a thousand hamlets in a thousand people's eyes, there are a thousand versions of Solvency II in a thousand actuaries’ mind. Haijing Wang, working as a Solvency II actuary and based in London, will talk about the Solvency II programme ... read more >>

Event date:
19 July 2012

Conflicts of Interest Package: Information evenings

With the final conflicts of interest package shortly to be formally published, the Working Party would like to take this opportunity to publicise key upcoming information evenings that will be held across the UK in July. The purpose of these sessions will ... read more >>

Event date:
17 July 2012

SIAS Meeting: Dimension Reduction Techniques and Forecasting Interest Rates

Techniques such as principal component analysis are widely used by actuaries, perhaps most frequently in the modelling of interest rate term structures. But are they being fully understood? Course Content Shaun Lazzari, Deloitte will: ... read more >>

Event date:
12 July 2012

Conflicts of Interest Package: Information evenings

With the final conflicts of interest package shortly to be formally published, the Working Party would like to take this opportunity to publicise key upcoming information evenings that will be held across the UK in July. The purpose of these sessions will ... read more >>

Event date:
11 July 2012

OCF Talk: Insurance will be a Customer Driven World: What are the Consequences of this? Who will Survive and who will Prosper?

A breakfast event delivered by Our Changing Futures. Speaker: David Brown, PricewaterhouseCoopers ... read more >>

Event date:
05 July 2012
Event date:
03 July 2012

Thought Leadership Lecture: The Challenge of Climate Change

15.30 – 16.00    Registration and refreshments 16.00 – 16.50    Lecture 16.50 – 17.30    Questions and answers 17.30 – 18.30    Drinks reception The latest thinking on the resource and environment ... read more >>

Event date:
28 June 2012

Dependence modeling using multivariate copulas with applications (2 days)

Copulas are a currently popular way to model multivariate data. They allow for flexible dependence modelling, different from assuming simple linear correlation structures and normality, which makes them particularly well-suited to many applications in ... read more >>

Event date:
26 June 2012

SIAS Meeting: Philosophy of modelling

Modelling is at the heart of almost all actuarial work. But what exactly is a model? What are we really doing when we design a model, or run one, or use its results? Course content In this presentation Matthew Edwards and Zaid Hoosain (Ernst & ... read more >>

Event date:
25 June 2012

Annual General Meeting of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

The AGM will be preceded by tea from 16.00. Agenda ... read more >>

Event date:
21 June 2012

Reserving Seminar

Why attend? Never before has so much changed so fast in general insurance. ... read more >>

Event date:
20 June 2012

The Actuarial Profession and ILC-UK joint debate: Retirement Income Summit

At the end of February 2012, ILC-UK, with the support of Partnership, published a report which explored the impact of the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) on people with small pension pots. Whilst the report supported the principles of the RDR, it ... read more >>

Event date:
14 June 2012

TANC (The Actuarial Network at CASS) - The Story of Betfair - The world's biggest betting community

Speaker:  Mark Davies, Camberton Agenda: 6.00 - 6.30 - Registration 6.30 - 7.30 - Lecture 7.30 - 8.00 - Q&A 8.00 - 9.00 - Refreshments and networking About the event: When Betfair changed the landscape of betting upon their launch in June 2000, ... read more >>