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Assessing the Need for Structural Change
Managing with-profits business through uncertainty
With-profits - coping with change - 23 January
Pensions Infrastructure Platform, NAPF
Pensions investment in infrastructure, Robert Gardner
Pensions investment in infrastructure, Alan Rubenstein
Excel spread sheet #1
E05 The Government’s State Pension reform plans
The future of De-risking and journey planning
CMI update
Commodities investment
Incorporating model uncertainty into mortality forecasts
Mortality and Smoking Prevalence
Estimating risk profiles for common diseases from environmental and genetic factors
Derivatives: a practical guide for users
The Trustee Perspective
Pension Scheme Investing, the role of derivatives
CHIPS programme
Accounting proposals for insurance contracts, Preliminary views on Exposure Draft and implications
Scottish Independence: some questions from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries

ACA Pensions Conference

SAPS mortality experience - current data and trends

Conflicts of Interest

Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions and Life)
Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions)

Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions)

.Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions)

Current Issues in General Insurance (CIGI)

B3: Update from the Third Party claims working party
B5: Update from Asbestos and Deafness working parties
Plenary 3: PRA Update

Current Issues in General Insurance (CIGI) 2013

PPO's an increasing challenge for insurers
A5: Irish Issues
PPO's an increasing challenge for insurers
A4: Pricing Uncertainty: ignore volatility at your peril!
B4: Discrimination working party - opportunity to see GIRO's Workshop
A3: PPO's: Results and issues from the 2012 working party
Plenary2: UK floods - an update from the ABI
A1: Update from Lloyd's on Capital Reserves and Solvency II
Plenary 6: Is the current insurance model going to die?
A2 B2: Actuarial Function - not that straightforward!

Current Issues in Life Assurance (CILA) 2013

Tax legislation changed - so what?
Introduction to EMIR for insurers
How Solvency II could potentially not help the growth of the European economy
RDR and pension reform – how it is playing out in the real world
Recovery and resolution plans
Implications for insurance industry of the introduction of ICAS+ before Solvency II
Managing an insurance business in a low rate environment

Current Issues in Pensions, Bristol 25 April

Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet
Funding in the current climate
Cautionary tales
Effective liability management
Improving DC member outcomes
Member options - getting it right
IORP II

Current Issues in Pensions, Edinburgh, 30 April

IORP II
Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet
Funding in the current climate
Cautionary tales
Effective liability management
Member options - getting it right
Improving DC member outcomes

Current Issues in Pensions, London, 16 April

IORP II
Funding in the current climate
Improving DC member outcomes
Member options - getting it right
Effective liability management
Cautionary tales
Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet

Current Issues in Pensions, Manchester, 18 April

IORP II
Funding in the current climate
Effective liability management
Member options - getting it right
Improving DC member outcomes
Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet
Cautionary tales

Enhancing your Business with ORSA

Engaging the business through ORSA
Update on regulations and emerging practice
The assessment of ‘Own Solvency Needs’
Perspective from the Board Room

General Insurance Pricing Seminar

E1: Price Monitoring in the Lloyd's market: Where to go next?
D3: GIRO Third Party Claims Working Party – Latest developments and findings relevant to pricing

General Insurance Reserving Seminar

Plenary 6: Preliminary results from the Third Party Working Party: Motor reserving issues based on the latest 2012 industry data

GIRO Conference and Exhibition 2011

Extending the Mack Bootstrap

GIRO40

Solvency II Technical Provisions for General Insurers
Ruin Theory Starter Kit #1
Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo method
A Report from GIRO Advanced Pricing Techniques (APT) Working Party

Health and Care Conference 2013

B04: IPMI - profitable growth opportunity or saturated market
C02: Whole of life disability products - customer friendly design or an actuary's worst pricing nightmare?
D03: Pricing IP with early intervention
D04: Critical Illness in Asia - a success story
E01: Understanding consumer behaviour - what can statistics tell us?
E04: Insights into recent Income Protection experience by cause of sickness
G03: From small things big things one day come: the future of cancer diagnosis
B02: Voluntary Income Protection topics
F01: Work-motivating interviews and claims management
E02: No sex please we're British
B01: Long Term Care insurance:avoiding potential pitfalls (lessons from the US)
D02: Lessons from the emerging markets
G01: Group mentality - developments and pressures in the group risk market
B03: Simplifying the underwriting process
C03: Solvency II ORSA - Implications for Solvency II Standard Formula firms
A04: Predictive modelling - not just an underwriting tool!
A01: Horrors from down under
C01: Why do people not tell us what we think they should - and what can we do about it?
F04: Update from the long term care working party following the decision to implement Dilnot
Plenary 2: The Big Picture: what the last five years (and the next and the next five) mean for you, your career and your business
Plenary 4: Brave new worlds of shared information
G02: Beagle Street - the building of a new online brand
F03: Reinsurance structuring under Solvency II
Plenary 5: Protection Gap or Protection Trap?
Plenary 6: The role of the Money Advice Service (MAS) in understanding insurance needs
A03: Critical Illness claims experience
Critical Illness claims experience
Insights into recent income protection experience by cause of sickness
G04: Providing affordable health solutions for the grey market
C04: Extending the critical path

Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, Birmingham

The risk-free rate: politics, economics and investment
The potential impact of stem cell therapy on our industry
There's more to life than Solvency II
Aligning culture, structure and systems to manage capital, risk and performance
Operational risk: no longer Cinderella?
Operational risk: no longer Cinderella?
Internal model calibration – how to satisfy the board, group, regulator
Creating a strong and vibrant actuarial team
What does validation of the ORSA look like?

Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, Dublin

Aligning culture, structure and systems to manage capital, risk and performance
Who is going to live to 100?
There's more to life than Solvency II
Operational risk: no longer Cinderella?
What does validation of the ORSA look like?
The risk-free rate: politics, economics and investment
The potential impact of stem cell therapy on our industry
How to do a with-profits run off plan?
Internal model calibration – how to satisfy the board, group, regulator
Apps, Android and Apple - the new generation of insurance customers

Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, Edinburgh

There’s more to life than Solvency II
Making your ORSA real
From embedding the ICA to satisfying the Solvency II use test
Creating a strong and vibrant actuarial team
The risk free rate: politics, economics and environment
Matching adjustment - an industry view on the latest Solvency II answer to an important risk based capital modelling question
Implications for insurers of a sovereign debt crisis - Irish case study
Who is going to live to 100?
European M & A – the perfect storm or a buying opportunity?

Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, London

The risk free rate: politics, economics and investment
There’s more to life than Solvency II
Making your ORSA real
Creating a strong and vibrant actuarial team
Matching adjustment - an industry view on the latest Solvency II answer to an important risk based capital modelling question
From “Embedding the ICA” to satisfying the Solvency II use test
Implications for insurers of a sovereign debt crisis - Irish case study
European M & A – the perfect storm or a buying opportunity?
Apps, Androids and Apple – the new generation of insurance customers

Investment Strategy for Pension Schemes - 'Post QE'?

Alternative inflation hedging investments

Investment Strategy for Pension Schemes Post - 'QE'?

Pension scheme investment in a low interest rate environment
Tail Risks

Life Taxation Workshop 2013

I-E Calculation
Shareholder Tax Calculation
Matters of current interest: Tax impact on ICA+/Solvency II, Embedded Value and other topics
Commercial Allocation of income and profit
Life Office tax overview

Matthew Little

Tax modelling and planning

Mortality and Longevity seminar 2013

Continuous Mortality Investigation
Potential and hurdles for longevity transfer in non-UK markets
Beyond the 2011 census – understanding oldest old mortality
Rising to the challenge of generating longevity stresses
New insights from the Longevity Science Advisory Panel
Extreme trend reversal, model risk and other challenges in modelling future
Understanding the components of longevity risk
Breakthroughs in genetic medicine and the implications for degenerative diseases

Mortality Thought Leadership Seminar Series: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality and Longevity

Life Course Influences on Old-age Longevity: Drivers of Socioeconomic Differences
Taking Action on the Social Determinants of Health
On the Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-economic Mortality Differentials: An Application to Deprivation and Mortality in England

NAG

Rehabilitating Correlations, Avoiding, Inversion, and Extracting Roots
Numerical software & tools for the actuarial community

Open Forum: Distributional Effect of Asset Purchases

Open Forum: Distributional Effect of Asset Purchases

Open Forum: General Insurance research topics – Impact of telematics for insurance and UK flood insurance

Rob Jarvis and Patrick Bradley

Pensions - the End Game

Buyout
Legal issues
De-risking
Governance
GMP equalisation and conversion
Cash studies
Debt
Buyout, Colin Parnell

Pensions and the Law

Professional Negligence
Legal Aspects of Longevity Risk Transfers
GMP Conversion
The Threat of Company Insolvency

Pensions Conference 2013

A01 Alternative Indexation of Equities - Market Cap or Monkey?
A05 Buy-ins and buyouts: What should really matter to pension schemes?
D03 Information overload – setting mortality assumptions in the modern era
B03 Governance – A Contrarian View?
C05 Recent practical experiences of de-risking
C01 Fiduciary management - pros and cons, Carl Hitchman
C01 Fiduciary management - pros and cons, Barbara Saunders
B05 Legal developments: where are we now?
C02 Gaining the essential buy-in from clients
D01 Asset backed funding: is it a legal and appropriate investment?
B04 Changed prospects for economic growth and long term actuarial assumptions
Plenary 2: Healthy life expectancy and the quality of life in old age
D04 Actuaries as 'financial engineers': a strategic analysis
B01 DC investment options
E01 Lehman Bros -a lesson on financial support directions
B02 Update on the European Commission Review of the IORP Directive
E04 Pension infrastructure platform
A02 The radically changing role of the actuary in scheme funding negotiations
Plenary 4: The global economic outlook
D02: LDI nine years on
D05 Sleepwalking into retirement – why DC desperately needs actuaries
C03 Another objective for the Regulator – what will that mean for actuaries?
A04 Macroeconomics of pensions funds
A03 Innovative solutions to age old problems
D04 Actuaries as 'financial engineers', Derek Cribb
Plenary 3: Auto-enrolment and how the regime in the UK compares to international systems
E02 Back to the future - what yesterday can tell us about tomorrow's pensions

Practical guidance for volunteers - on issues relating to competition law

Practical guidance for volunteers - on issues relating to competition law

Risk and Investment Conference 2013

A3: Challenges in optimising risk and return for insurers in a low Interest rate environment
C2: Reverse Stress Testing: A Case Study
E3: A unique look at project actuaries
Plenary 5: Making Money Safely A Personal View of Risk Management in Non-Financial Corporates, Insurance and Banking
Plenary 6: Designing a risk-led investment strategy at the Pension Protection Fund
A4: A New Approach to Risk-Neutral Scenarios
D1: Risk Reporting
Plenary 1: Actuarial discipline: a threat or an opportunity?
E4: Financial repression working party
A2: So how do you do all this risk appitite stuff for a with-profits fund?
B1: Conduct risk: what is it and what is your role in managing it?
B2: Draw boundaries between the risk function and internal audit
C1: Approximations, estimates and errors
C5: Actuaries as financial engineers: a stratigic analysis
C4: Modelling defaultable sovereign debt
Plenary 6: Risk appetite in practice
E1: Model risk and governance
E5: Managing the risk of reputation damage, negligence litigation and misconduct complaints
B4: How to blend 'qualitative' with 'quantitative': global macro economic themes in strategic asset allocation
Plenary 3: The story of the PRA: what kind of a regulator will it be?
C3: Role of liquidity in economics, risk and investment
B5: An appraisal of acquiring fixed income assets on a forward basis
D2: Plural rationality - how it explains regulators management and stratagy of insurers

Sessional Research Event: Holistic Balance Sheet and Employer Covenant

Sessional Research Event: Holistic Balance Sheet and Employer Covenant: PwC presentation slides
Sessional Research Event: Holistic Balance Sheet and Employer Covenant: Barrie + Hibbert presentation slides

Sessional Research Event: Unintended Consequences Basel III and Solvency II

Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II

Solvency II Seminar: Responsibilities of the Actuarial Function

Actuarial Function
Technical Provisions
Underwriting Review
Reinsurance Adequacy Opinion
Risk Management
A Personal View on the Actuarial Function

The Value of ERM: One Day Seminar

ERM: Does it add Value? Three Perspectives