The papers below were presented at the General insurance pricing seminar, held at the Royal College of Physicians, London, on 13 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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| Time | Title and Speaker |
| 09.30 | Chairman's welcome and introduction [pdf] Duncan Anderson, EMB |
| 10.15 | Session A3 Practical pricing for commercial lines. An introduction [pdf] Martin Cross |
| 10.15 | Session A4 What do London Market Actuaries price? [pdf] Ana Mata and Wendy Russell |
| 11.35 | Session B1 The Gender Directive - Age discrimination and free market pricing issues [pdf] Nathan Williams, Royal & SunAlliance |
| 11.35 | Session B2 Demand modelling in personal lines [pdf] James Tanser, Watson Wyatt Limited |
| 11.35 | Session B3 Application of predictive modelling in commercial lines [pdf] Ryan Warren, Watson Wyatt Limited |
| 13.40 | Session C1 Estimating the predictive distribution for risk premiums using Bootstrapping [pdf] Derek Bain, Axa |
| 13.40 | Session C2 Principles of non-proportional reinsurance technical pricing [pdf] Tom Wright, Deloitte |
| 13.40 | Session C3 Conflicting objectives. Putting commercial lines pricing in context [pdf] David O'Connor |
| 14.40 | Session D1 ISO industry data - how it works in the US and what might be done in the UK [pdf] Beth Fitzgerald, ISO |
| 14.40 | Session D2 Predictive modelling for commercial insurance [pdf] James Guszcza, Deloittte |
| 16.00 | Session E1 Capital allocation in pricing [pdf] Martin Cairns, EMB |
| 16.00 | Session E2 Price optimisation - A European case study [pdf] Mark Airey and Francisco Gomez-Alvado, Towers Perrin |
| 16.00 | Session E3 Understanding the customer value chain [pdf] Michael Brockman |
| 16.00 | Session E4 Marine hull pricing [pdf] Tom Jowett, Swiss Re |