Finance Investment & Risk Management Conference 2008

Markets: magnifiers or mitigators of risk?

Hilton Manchester Deansgate, 15-17 June 2008

The papers below were presented to the Finance, Investment & Risk Management Conference, held at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate, from 15-17 June 2008. Any queries about the seminar should be adressed to Kate Harris, Conference Officer, at e-mail: kate.harris@actuaries.org.uk.

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Monday 16 June 2008

Time Title and Speaker
09.00 Plenary 1
Taking account of liquidity in valuation [pdf]

Seamus Creedon, KPMG LLP (Working Party Chairman)

09.00 Plenary 1
Market consistent discounting [pdf]

Interim Report of the Market Consistent Valuation Working Party (Chairman: Seamus Creedon)

09.00 Plenary 1
How valuable is liquidity? Working Paper [pdf]

Paul Stanworth, Merrill Lynch (Working Party Chairman)

09.00 Plenary 1
How valuable is liquidity? [pdf]

Paul Stanworth, Merrill Lynch (Working Party Chairman)

10.35 Session A1
Alternative beta strategies: A new paradigm to the hedge fund industry [pdf]

Dr Lars Jaeger, Partners Group

10.35 Session A1
How much of hedge fund returns are market related. The hedge fund landscape [pdf]

Robert Howie, Mercer

10.35 Session A2
Economic capital models for Basel II, Pillar II [pdf]

Alexander McNeil, Heriot Watt University

11.20 Session B1
Influences of regulation on property investment [pdf]

Simon Jones

11.20 Session B2
Residual and ancillary risks in VA guarantees [pdf]

James Maher, Natixis Corporate Solutions, and Tamsin Abbey, Deloitte

12.05 Plenary 2 - Keynote address
Modern approaches to financing pension commitments [pdf]

Edmund Truell, Chief Executive, Pension Corporation

12.05 Plenary 2 - Keynote address
Modern approaches to financing pension commitments [pdf]

Steven Lowe, Pension Corporation

14.05 Plenary 3
Catastrophe risk financing under changes in hurricane activity; and Current research at Manchester Accounting and Finance Group [pdf]

Andreas Milidonis, Centre for the Analysis of Investment Risk (CAIR) and Manchester Business School (MBS)

15.05 Session C1
Coping with extreme events: Using copulas and other co-movement analysis tools in investment management and risk management [pdf]

Malcolm Kemp, Threadneedle, UK

16.10 Plenary 4
Controlling the growth of your hedge. Draft Report of a Working Party on Dynamic Investment Strategies [pdf]

Stuart Jarvis, Barclays Global Investors

16.10 Plenary 4
Controlling the growth of your hedge. Dynamic Investment Strategies Working Party [pdf]

Stuart Jarvis, Barclays Global Investors

17.10 Holiday reading for actuaries [pdf]
FIRM Organising Committee

Tuesday 17 June 2008

Time Title and Speaker
09.00 Plenary 5
Faculty and Institute merger proposal [pdf]

Stewart Ritchie, Faculty President

09.00 Plenary 5
Annuities and aggregate morality risk: mountains out of molehills [pdf]

Martin Weale, National Institute of Economic and Social Research

10.50 Session D1
Longevity hedging via the capital markets [pdf]

Guy Couglan and Lukas Steyn, J P Morgan

10.50 Session D2
SWAPS and SWAPTIONS. Interest rate risk exposures [pdf]

Viktor Mirkin, Deloitte

10.50 Session D2
The tyranny of single values UK inflation [ppt]

Jon Spain
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10.50 Session D4
London market pricing in the soft market [pdf]

Sanjiv Chandaria, Watson Wyatt

11.35 Session E1
Dynamic ALM in finite time [pdf]

Adrian Lawrence

11.35 Session E2
Commodities. A strategic asset allocation [pdf]

John McManus

13.50 Session F1
The market value of pension liabilities [pdf]

David Cule, Punter Southall

13.50 Session F2
Agent-based modelling [pdf]

Andrew Slater, Brighton Rock; Andrew Smith, Deloitte; and Nick Silver, Independent Consultant

13.50 Session F2
Complexity economics. Application and relevance to actuarial work. A report from the Agent-Based Modelling Working Party [pdf]

Andrew Slater, Brighton Rock; Andrew Smith, Deloitte; and Nick Silver, Independent Consultant (Working Party members)

14.35 Session G1
Extreme events deriving tail probabilities for economic distributions relevant to individual capital assessments [pdf]

Ralph Frankland and Andrew Smith. Members of the LPEC Benchmarking Stochastic Models Working Party

14.35 Session G1
Components of yield curve movements. Illustrative worked examples [pdf]

An Interim Report of the Stress Test Working Party (Chairman: Ralph Frankland)

14.35 Session G2
When theory and practice are not always the same. Earning Libor on cash is easy - isn't it? [pdf]

Cormac Bradley, Towers Perrin

15.40 Plenary 6
Securitisation of non-life insurance [pdf]

Graham Fulcher, Chair, GIRO 2008 Working Party

 
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