6-8 June 2007, The Hilton Manchester Deansgate
The papers below were presented at the 2007 Pensions Convention: Moving Forward held from 6-8 June at the Hilton Manchester Deansgate.
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Programme [pdf, 4.0 mb]
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Thursday 7 June 2007
| Time | Title and Speaker |
| 9.30-10.45 | Plenary 1: Pensions 2020 - training and development needs of pensions actuaries [pdf] Nick Dumbreck, President, Institute of Actuaries |
| 9.30-10.45 | Plenary 1: Pensions 2020 - the future of pensions and employee benefits [pdf] Stewart Ritchie, President, Faculty of Actuaries |
| 9.30-10.45 | Plenary 1: Pensions - the next 13 years [pdf] Gordon Sharp, Chairman of the Pensions Board |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop A1: Transfer values [pdf] Graham McLean, Watson Wyatt |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop A2 Converging accounting standards [pdf] Gary Hibbard, BP |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop A3 State pension reform - back to the future? [pdf] Deborah Cooper, Chairperson Social Policy Board, Mercer HR Consulting |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop A4: A practical approach to LDI [pdf] Andy McKinnell, AON Consulting |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop A5: The communication challenge [slides 3.1mb, ppt] Huw Evans, Hewitt |
| 12.25-13.25 | Workshop B1: Pitfalls and current issues in employer covenants [pdf] Merryck Lowe, PKF TD Advisors< Business and Accountants LLP (UK) |
| 12.25-13.25 | Workshop B2: Mergers and acquisitions - The importance of pensions [pdf] Ryan Ellett and Tom Seecharan, KPMG |
| 12.25-13.25 | Workshop B3: Mortality - Where we are and where we're going [pdf] Dave Grimshaw, Secretary, CMI |
| 12.25-13.25 | Workshop B5: Pension scheme buyouts [pdf] David Ellis, Mercer Human Resource Consulting Limited |
| 14.30-15.30 | Workshop C1: Top papers every pensions actuary should know about [pdf] David Bowie, Chairman, Pensions ECPD Committee |
| 14.30-15.30 | Workshop C2: The outlook for the PPF levy [pdf] Stephen Rice, Chief Actuary to the Pension Protection Fund |
| 14.30-15.30 | Workshop C3: You are the weakest link [pdf] Louise Pryor, Director, Louise Pryor & Co Ltd |
| 14.30-15.30 | Workshop C4: Alternative assets [pdf] John Walbaum, Partner, Hymans Robertson |
| 14.30-15.30 | Workshop C5: Executive pensions - A-day, one year on [pdf] Jamie Wilis, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP |
| 15.40-16.40 | Workshop D1: What pensions actuaries NEED to learn from life actuaries [pdf] Kathryn Morgan, Co-operative Financial Services, and Chinu Patel, Watson Wyatt |
| 15.40-16.40 | Workshop D2: The Pension Regulator's Clearance Procedure [pdf] Stephen Ito, Lovells LLP |
| 15.40-16.40 | Workshop D3: Update on plan design [pdf] Colin Singer |
| 15.40-16.40 | Workshop D4: Staff transfers from public to private sector [pdf] Stephen Humphrey, Government Actuary's Department, and Bart Huby, Lane, Clark & Peacock |
| 15.40-16.40 | Workshop D5: Change. How can you make it easier to deal with? [pdf] Hilary Johnson |
| 17.10-18.10 | Plenary 2: The Pensions Regulator: light touch or soft touch? [pdf] June Mulroy, Executive Director, Business Delivery, The Pensions Regulator |
Friday 8 June 2007
| Time | Title and Speaker |
| 9.30-10.45 | Plenary 3: How shared risk schemes can re-energise occupational pensions in the UK [pdf] Ian Farr, Chairman of the ACA |
| 9.30-10.45 | Plenary 3: Ways of mitigating risk in pension schemes [pdf] Cliff Speed, Paternoster |
| 9.30-10.45 | Plenary 3: Stepping stones on the road to buy-out [pdf] Francis Fernandes, Citigroup |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop E1: Scheme specific funding - experience so far [pdf] Jane Curtis, Hewitt |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop E2: Good governance - how trustees manage and monitor their actuarial advisers [pdf] Allan Course, Capital Cranfield Trustees |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop E3: Section 75 - Practical issues [pdf] Duncan Buchanan, Lovells LLP |
| 11.15-12.15 | Workshop E5: A selection of international issues in pensions [pdf] Isabel Coles, Mercer Human Resource Consulting |