The papers below were presented at the Mortality and longevity seminar, held on Edinburgh on 8 April 2008, and in London on 15 April 2008. Any queries about the seminar should be addressed to Hannah Bolton, Conference Organiser, at e-mail: hannah.bolton@actuaries.org.uk.
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| Time | Title and Speaker |
| 08.30 | Technical pre-session: Mortality - Where we are and how we got here Dave Grimshaw. Secretary, CMI |
| 09.40 | Update on the latest work of the CMI Edinburgh: Andrew Gaches, CMI SAPS Committee London: Nigel Bodie, CMI SAPS Committee |
| 10.20 | 8 April seminar: What your postcode says about your longevity [pdf] Stephen Richards |
| 10.20 | 15 April seminar: Mortality Projections "By Cause" Research Group [pdf] Neil Daniels, Adrian Pinington, Scott Reid |
| 11.20 | The Cairns-Blake-Dowd model [pdf] Andrew Cairns, Maxwell Institute and Heriot-Watt University; David Blake, Pensions Institute and CASS Business School; and Kevin Dowd, Nottingham University Business School |
| 11.20 | New developments of the Lee-Carter model for mortality dynamics [pdf] Arthur E Renshaw and Steven Haberman, CASS Business School, City University |
| 11.20 | Extentions to the Lee-Carter model, including risk measurement in the age-period and age-period-cohort versions of the model [pdf]. See also Accompanying figures Arthur E Renshaw and Steven Haberman, CASS Business School, City University |
| 13.30 | 15 April seminar: What might the future hold? The ageing process and the prospects for prolonging life expectancy [pdf] Dr David Gems, University College, London |
| 14.30 | Standards for mortality assumptions [pdf] Louise Pryor, Board for Actuarial Standards |
| 15.30 | 8 April 2008 Managing the uncertainty. Alternatives to traditional buyout [pdf] Martin Potter, Hymans Robertson |
| 15.30 | 15 April 2008 Alternatives to traditional buyout [pdf] Paul Jayson, Barnett Waddingham LLP |
| 15.30 | 8 April 2008 The role of longevity indices and mortality derivatives [pdf] Chris Watts, J P Morgan |
| 15.30 | 15 April 2008 The role of longevity indices and mortality derivatives [pdf] David Epstein, J P Morgan |