General Insurance Convention 2006

26-29 September 2006, Hilton Vienna

All available papers presented at the 2006 General Insurance Convention are listed on this page.

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Programme [pdf, 2.7 mb]

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Wednesday 27 September 2006

Time Title and Speaker
9.00-10.15 Plenary 1
Address by the Institute President, Nick Dumbreck [pdf] 

9.00-10.15 Plenary 1
The Austrian Perspective [pdf]
Klaus Wegenkittl, President of the AVO, Austrian Actuarial Association

10.15-11.15          Workshop A03
Catastrophe risk aggregation [slides, pdf]
J B Crozet and Reeken Patel

10.15-11.15 Workshop A04
Do non-life insurers treat customers fairly? [slides, pdf]
Camilla Bennett, Chair of GI TCF Working Party

10.15-11.15 Workshop A05
Time horizon solved! [pdf]
Stefan Claus and Roger Jackson

10.15-11.15 Workshop A08
Solvency II - Recent developments and implications [slides, pdf]
John Charles, Ming Roest

10.15-11.15 Workshop A09
Large loss energy analysis [pdf]
Tom Jowett

11.45-13.00 Plenary 2:
GRIT [pdf]

Tony Jones

11.45-13.00 Plenary 2:
A practical and quantitative approach to describing reserving uncertainty [pdf]
Lis Gibson

11.45-13.00 Plenary 2:
Reserve ranges - the Australian experience [pdf]
Scott Collings

14.00-15.00 Workshop B01
ERM in general insurance [pdf]
Donald Mango, Brian Doyle and Dix Roberts

14.00-15.00 Workshop B03
Managing for profit and effective pricing governance in the London Market [pdf]
Fiachra McLoughlin and Simon O'Shea

14.00-15.00 Workshop B04
D&O pricing, not as easy as ABC [pdf]
Anup Seth

14.00-15.00 Workshop B06
Actuaries excel: but what about their software [paper, pdf]
Louise Pryor

14.00-15.00

 

Workshop B07
Using the work of other professionals [pdf]
Andrew Newman
Case studies [pdf]

15.00-16.00       

 

Plenary 3
Report of the Catastrophe Modelling Working Party [paper, pdf]
Graham Fulcher
Paper [pdf]

15.00-16.00      Plenary 4
GRIP - General insurance premium Rating Issues working Party [paper 2.2mb, pdf]
Duncan Anderson
(See also the GRIP webpages on the profession's website)


Thursday 28 September 2006

Time Title and Speaker
9.00-10.00 Workshop C01
GRIP - General insurance premium Rating Issues working Party [paper 2.2mb, pdf]
Duncan Anderson
(See also the GRIP webpages on the profession's website)

9.00-10.00                Workshop C02
The power of group thinking and its impact on actuariess [pdf]
Stuart Brown and Philip Tippin

9.00-10.00

 

Workshop C03
Lloyd's issues [slides, pdf]
Henry Johnson, Jerome Kirk, Veekash Badal
Paper [pdf]

9.00-10.00

 

Workshop C04
Embedding capital models in the business [pdf]
Alex Marcuson
Paper [pdf]

9.00-10.00 Workshop C05
Reserving for Solvency II. What might we reasonably expect? [pdf]
Kathryn Morgan and James Rakow

9.00-10.00 Workshop C07
Optimizing groupings of classes of business. Triangle segmentation [pdf]
Simon Margetts; Sergio Pezzulli

9.00-10.00 Workshop C08
Part VII transfers involving APH - a case study [slides, pdf]
Lis Gibson and Darren Michaels

10.30-12.00 Plenary 5
Solvency II [pdf]
Kathryn Morgan and Annette Olesen

10.30-12.00 Plenary 5
UK domestic update and Solvency 2 - Pillar 3 [pdf]

Rob Curtis

10.30-12.00

 

Plenary 5
Reinsurance pricing: practical issues and considerations
; and A review of papers relevant to non-life reinsurance (with a liability focus) [pdf]
Mark Flower, Chairman, Reinsurance Matters Working Party
Paper [pdf]

12.00-13.00

 

 

Workshop D01
Reinsurance matters! [paper, pdf]
Mark Flower, Gillian James and Ian Cook
Questions [pdf]
Feedback [pdf]

12.00-13.00

Workshop D02
Report of the Data Quality Working Party [pdf]
Mark Rothwell
Paper [pdf]

12.00-13.00 Workshop D03
Working Parties in the CAS [pdf]
Mark R Shapland
Why run-off companies should take DFA seriously [slides, pdf]
Jonathan Broughton

12.00-13.00 Workshop D09
Top down/bottom up correlation [pdf]
Colin Kerley and Simon Margetts

14.00-15.30 

Plenary 6
General Insurance Board Report [pdf]
Derek Newton
Additional handouts [pdf]

14.00-15.30 

Plenary 6
Joined-up risk management - linking pricing, reserving and capitalisation [pdf]
James Orr

14.00-15.30 

Plenary 6
Recommendations for general insurer risk management [pdf]
Don Mango and Guy Carpenter

14.00-15.30 

Plenary 6
A postcode from the industry [pdf]
Andrew Pryde and James Toller

16.00-17.00 

Workshop E01
GRIP - General insurance premium Rating Issues working Party [paper 1.3mb, pdf]
Duncan Anderson
(See also the GRIP webpages on the profession's website)

16.00-17.00 Workshop E02
Understanding the customer value chain [slides,pdf]
Michael Brockman

16.00-17.00

 

Workshop E03
An actuarial toolkit. Introducing "The Toolkit Manifesto" [paper, pdf]

Trevor Maynard
Slides [ppt]
Paper [pdf]

16.00-17.00 Workshop E04
Need to measure the uncertainty in your reserves? How are you going to do that? [slides, pdf]
Kendra Felisky, Phil Hobbs and Craig Martindale

16.00-17.00 Workshop E05
Can one use the same model for pricing, budgetting and reserving? [pdf]

Jens Perch Nielsen

16.00-17.00 Workshop E06
Capital structures in insurance [pdf]
Paul Mumford

16.00-17.00        Workshop E08
Solvency II and Basel II - What can actuaries learn? [slides, pdf]
Martin Noble

16.00-17.00            Workshop E09
Challenges for Australian GI actuaries this summer (apart from fitting in watching The Ashes) [pdf]
Estelle Pearson


Friday 29 September 2006

Time Title and Speaker
9.30-11.00 

 

 

Plenary 7
General insurance reserves for accounting and solvency: incorporating provision for risk [pdf]
Martin White, Chairman of the Risk Margin Working Party
Paper [pdf]
Paper [pdf]

9.30-11.00             Plenary 7
Financial economics and insurance [pdf]
Andrew Hitchox and Andrew Smith

9.30-11.00  Plenary 7
Embedding capital models in the business [pdf]
Ian Hilder and Alex Marcuson

11.30-13.00 Plenary 8
Risk management issues for GI actuaries [pdf]
Caroline Hunter-Yeats, Solicitor, Simmons and Simmons

11.30-13.00 Plenary 8
Treating customers fairly (TCF) [pdf]
Camilla Bennett, Chair of GI TCF Working Party, and Nausicaa Delfas, Head of Department, Retail Themes Division, Financial Services Authority

11.30-13.00          Plenary 8
The Actuarial Prediction Survey [pdf]
Richard Winter


 
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