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Past meetings 2008-2009 session
Forthcoming meetings 2008-2009 session
- Management Actions in a With-Profits Fund
Institute Sessional Meeting to be held at Staple Inn Hall 24 November 2008
- Modelling extreme market events. A report of the Benchmarking Stochastic Models Working Party
Faculty Sessional Meeting to be held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 19 January 2009
- Institute Sessional Meeting - Topic to be confirmed
To be held at Staple Inn Hall on 26 January 2009
- Pensions mortality
Faculty Sessional Meeting to be held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 16 February 2009
- Internal model approval for Solvency II
Institute Sessional Meeting to be held at Staple Inn Hall on 23 February 2009
- Faculty Sessional Meeting - Topic to be confirmed
To be held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh on 16 March 2009
- Institute Sessional Meeting - Topic to be confirmed
To be held at Staple Inn Hall on 23 March 2009
- Institute Sessional Meeting - Topic to be confirmed
To be held at Staple Inn Hall on 27 April 2009
- Institute Sessional Meeting - Topic to be confirmed
To be held on either 18 May 2009 or 1 June 2009
2007-2008
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Do you really know the characteristics of your liabilities?
Huw Evans et al
Institute Sessional Meeting held in Bristol on 2 June 2008
- IFRS Phase II Changing our Future?
Marylene Lanari-Boisclair
'Our changing future' meeting held at Resolution, 287 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, on 19 May 1008
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ERM for general insurers
Michael Tripp et al
Institute Sessional Meeting held on 28 April 2008
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Review of Financial Advice
Otto Thoresen
'Our Changing Future' breakfast meeting held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 9 April 2008
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Variable annuities
Colin Ledlie et al
Institute Sessional Meeting held on 31 March 2008 at Staple Inn
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Current Topics
Peter Murphy (Deloittes)
'Our Changing Future' meeting held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 26 March 2008
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Variable annuities
Colin Ledlie et al
Faculty Sessional Meeting held on 17 March 2008 at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh.
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Applying survival models to pensioner mortality data, by S J Richards
Institute Sessional Meeting held on 25 February 2008 at Staple Inn.
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How the integration of insurance and banking techniques and thinking can add real commercial value
Chris Hancorn (PwC and Working Group)
'Our Changing Future' breakfast meeting held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 28 February 2008.
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Annuity bulk buy-out market
Presentation and panel discussion led by Cliff Speed
Faculty Sessional Meeting to be held on 18 February 2008 at the Merchants' House of Glasgow, Glasgow
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CMI SAPS Mortality Tables
Faculty Sessional Meeting held on Tuesday 5 February 2008 at The Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
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Absolute returns - a pensions perspective
Brian Fleming and Gareth Derbyshire
'Our Changing Future' meeting, held on 29 January 2008 at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh
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CMI SAPS Mortality Tables
Institute Sessional Meeting held on 28 January 2008 at The Royal College of Surgeons of England, WC2A.
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The impact of medical advances and lifestyle on mortality
Presentations by Professor Angus Macdonald FRSE, Professor Howard Waters, Tushar Chatterjee, Edward Roche and Dr Catriona Macdonald, followed by an open discussion. Presented at the Faculty Sessional Meeting on 14 January 2008 at The Royal College of Physicians, 9 Queen Street, Edinburgh
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The implications of climate change for the actuarial profession
Presentations and discussions by Dr Leonard Smith, Garrie Lette, Graham Fulcher and Nick Robins. To be presented at the Institute Sessional Meeting on 26 November 2007 at Staple Inn
- Modelling and managing risk
Paul Sweeting
Presented to the Faculty Sessional Meeting on 19 November 2007.
- Current issues in retail pensions ('Our Changing Future' meeting)
Ian Naismith at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, on 6 November 2007
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- Equity release paper
by Ged Hosty et al. Presented at the Institute Sessional Meeting on 29 October 2007
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- The challenge of Solvency II
Third lecturer to the Faculty of Actuaries, Karel van Hulle. Presented at the Faculty Sessional Meeting on 1 October 2007.
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- Two dimensional mortality data: patterns and projections
by Stephen Richards, John Ellam, Jennifer Hubbard, Joseph Lu, Stephen Makin and Keith Miller. Presented at the Institute Sessional Meeting, 24 September 2007.
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2006-2007
- General insurance premium rating - the way forward
General Insurance Premium Rating Issues Working Party (GRIP)
Institute Sessional Meeting, 21 May 2007
- Individual capital assessments (ICA) ('Our changing future' meeting)
Peter McDade; Neil Meldrum; David Stevenson. 9 May 2007
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Modelling and managing risk
Paul Sweeting
Institute Sessional Meeting held in conjunction with the North West Actuarial Society, 30 April 2007.
- QIS3: How will Solvency II change life insurers' balance sheets? ('Our changing future' meeting)
David Comerford; Alan Reed. 30 April 2007
- Solvency II panel discussion
Institute Sessional Meeting, 26 March 2007, Staple Inn
- Two-dimensional mortality data: patterns and projections
Faculty of Actuaries Mortality Research Group.
Faculty Sessional Meeting, 19 March 2007, The Merchants Hall, Edinburgh
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- Current topics ('Our changing future' meeting joint talk with FASS)
12 March 2007
- Should projections of mortality improvements be subject to a minimum value?
Steven Baxter
Institute Sessional Meeting, 26 February 2007 at Staple Inn
- Pension scheme funding and sponsor covenants
Faculty Sessional Meeting, 19 February 2007 at The Merchants' Hall, Edinburgh
- Longevity risk ('Our changing future' meeting)
Stephen Richards. 2 February 2007
- Life operational risk management
Institute Sessional Meeting, 22 January 2007, Staple Inn
- Credit derivatives working party paper.
Faculty Sessional Meeting, 15 January 2007, The Merchant House of Glasgow
- Liability driven investment: UK pensions - where are we now? ('Our changing future' meeting) .
Shajahan Alam and Christopher Nichols. 11 January 2007
- Removing the risk for Company pensions ('Our changing future' meeting).
Myles Pink. 6 December 2006
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Assessment of target capital for general insurance firms.
A N Hitchcox; I A Hinder; A M Kaufman; T J Maynard; A D Smith; M G White, Institute Sessional Meeting, 27 November 2006 at Staple Inn
- Pension scheme funding and the sponsor covenant.
Nick Dumbreck, Tim Gordon, Maggie Mills, Darren Redmayne, presented to the Institute Sessional Meeting, 30 October 2006 at Staple Inn
- Regulation and oversight of the Actuarial Profession/ Board for Actuarial Standards.
Faculty sessional meeting. A presentation by Paul Seymour, Chairman of BAS, and Nigel Bankhead, Director, Actuarial Standards followed by discussion and questions, 2 October 2006. No papers issued
2005-2006
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Lessons from closure. An analysis and comparison of the issues facing closed life funds and closed pension schemes [404 kb]
A C Campbell, D C Grimley, J K Pallister, A M Stoker, A R Walton and C A Yiasoumi, presented to the Institute of Actuaries, 22 May 2006
- Which actuaries make the best risk managers? Open debate. Institute of Actuaries, 24 April 2006
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Report by the General Insurance Reserving Issues Task Force [1,119 kb]
presented to the Institute of Actuaries, 27 March 2006
Note:
As this paper is 165 pages in length, the executive summary [15 pages, 110 kb] has been provided as a separate document. If you would prefer to receive a hard copy, contact Maria Lyons, e-mail: maria.lyons@actuaries.org.uk, tel: 01865 268 236.
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Living with mortality. Longevity bonds and other mortality-linked securities [374 kb]
A J G Cairns and K Dowd, presented to the Institute of Actuaries, 27 February 2006
- Healthy life expectancy in Scotland. Research paper for the 150th Anniversary of the Faculty of Actuaries [485 kb]
presented to the Faculty of Actuaries, 20 February 2006
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The cost of capital for financial firms [485 kb]
C J Exley and A D Smith, presented to the Institute of Actuaries, 23 January 2006
- Living with mortality: longevity bonds and other mortality linked securities [374 kb]
D Blake, A J G Cairns and K Dowd, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries, 16 January 2006 and the Institute of Actuaries, 27 February 2006
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Background risk and pensions [432 kb]
M Cardinale, G Katz, J Kumar and J M Orszag, presented to the Institute of Actuaries, 28 November 2005
2004-2005
- Is there a retirement savings crisis? Whither pension reform? Institute Sessional Meeting, 23 May 2005.
- Risk management in a fair valuation world [pdf, 886 kb]
M H D Kemp, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 25 April 2005
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The modelling of extreme events [pdf, 324 kb]
D E Sanders, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 4 April 2005
- Realistic valuation of life office liabilities [pdf, 31 kb]
The attached note sets out possible topics for discussion at the Faculty Sessional Meeting on 21 February 2005, which will take the form of a panel discussion chaired by David Forfar. Other members of the panel will include James Tuley, Adrian Eastwood, Alastair Clarkson and James Hillman
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Current developments in embedded value reporting [pdf, 400 kb]
P J L O'Keeffe, A J Desai, K Foroughi, G J Hibbett, A J Maxwell, A C Sharp, N H Taverner, M B Ward, F J P Willis, to be presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 28 February 2005
- Consultation meeting with Sir Derek Morris
Institute of Actuaries, 24 January 2005
- Notes on options, hedging, prudential reserves and fair values [pdf, 780 kb]
A D Wilkie, M P Owen and H R Waters, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 6 December 2004
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Effective decision making in a life company [pdf, 215 kb]
M Iqbal, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 22 November 2004
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Funding defined benefit pension schemes [pdf, 205 kb]
C A Cowling, T J Gordon and C A Speed, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 25 October 2004, and to the Faculty of Actuaries on 21 March 2005
2003-2004
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Quantifying operational risk in general insurance companies [pdf, 3.5 mb]
M H Tripp, H L Bradley, R Devitt, G C Orros, G L Overton, L M Pryor, R A Shaw, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 22 March 2004
- The cohort effect: insights and explanations [pdf, 365 kb]
R C Willets presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 15 March 2004 and to the Institute of Actuaries on 26 April 2004
Note: the copy available here is an updated version of the paper originally presented to the Faculty on 15 March 2004
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Longevity in the 21st century [pdf, 946 kb]
R C Willets, A P Gallop, P A Leandro, J L C Lu, A S Macdonald, K A Miller, S J Richards, N Robjohns, J P Ryan and H R Waters, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 15 March 2004 and to the Institute of Actuaries on 26 April 2004
Note: the copy available here is an updated version of the paper originally presented to the Faculty on 15 March 2004
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Market consistent valuation of life assurance business [pdf]
T J Sheldon and A D Smith, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 23 February 2004
- Hedge funds [pdf, 595 kb]
J J Caslin, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 16 February 2004
- Current issues in pensions [pdf, 102 kb]
D G Fleming, K O Gourlay, A B Grant, R D Muckart and K G Taylor presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 19 January 2004
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Pension schemes and fixed income investment[pdf, 1.9 mb] P J Sweeting, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 26 January 2004
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Realistic liabilities and risk capital margins for with-profits business [pdf, 161 kb]
D Dullaway and P D Needleman, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 24 November 2003
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Asset models in life assurance - Views from the Stochastic Accreditation Working Party [ppt, 103 kb]
Presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 17 November 2003
- In a pre-meeting, members were given the opportunity to comment on the profession's response to FSA CP 195, Enhanced capital requirements and individual capital assessments for life insurer.
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Reserving, pricing and hedging for policies with guaranteed annuity options [pdf, 913 kb]
A D Wilkie, H R Waters and S Yang. Updated version of the paper presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 20 January 2003. Presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 27 October 2003
- The measurement and modelling of commercial real estate performance [pdf, 378 kb]
P M Booth and G Marcato, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 22 September 2003
2002-2003
- Measuring and managing the economic risks and costs of with-profits business [pdf, 411 kb]
A J Hibbert and C J Turnbull, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 2 June 2003
- Practical risk management for equity portfolio managers [pdf, 5.7 mb]
G C Heywood, J R Marsland and G M Morrison, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 28 April 2003.
(Please note that this is a very large file as it contains coloured tables. If you are unable to download it, please contact Maria Lyons: marial@actuaries.org.uk, who will e-mail you a copy.)
- The implication of fair value accounting for general insurance companies [pdf]
P K Clark, P H Hinton, E J Nicholson, L Storey, G G Wells and M G White, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 24 March 2003
- Genetics and insurance - some social policy issues [pdf, 304 kb]
C D Daykin, D A Akers, A S Mcdonald, T McGleenan, D Paul and P J Turvey, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 24 February 2003 and to the Faculty of Actuaries on 17 March 2003
- Measuring and managing the economic risks and costs of with-profits business [pdf, 737 kb]
Draft background paper for the Faculty Sessional Meeting on 17 February 2003 which will take the form of a lecture by John Hibbert on some of the issues raised by the application of 'stochastic' modelling tools to the measurement of value, risk and capital
- A stochastic approach to risk management and decision making in defined benefit pension schemes [pdf, 1,490 kb]
S Haberman, C Day, D Fogarty, M Z Khorasanee, M McWhirter, N Nash, B Ngwira, I D Wright and Y Yakoubov, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 27 January 2003
- Reserving, pricing and hedging for policies with guaranteed annuity options [pdf, 397 kb]
A D Wilkie, H R Waters and S Yang, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 20 January 2003
- Global asset liability management [pdf, 1,461 kb]
M A H Dempster, M Germano, E A Medova and M Villaverde, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 25 November 2002
- A note on pension scheme design issues [pdf, 84 kb]
Paper prepared by the Faculty of Actuaries Pensions Research Group as background to the debate at the Faculty Sessional Meeting on 18 November 2002
- Creating the conditions for the UK life market to flourish [pdf, 180 kb]
Discussion meeting held at the Institute of Actuaries in October 2002
2001-2002
- Family fortunes - a guide to saving for retirement [pdf]
Paper by Deborah Cooper which formed the basis for discussion at the Institute Sessional Meeting on 22 April 2002.
For those wishing to test the model, this is available as a zipped excel spreadsheet
[Disclaimer: This spreadsheet has been prepared by Deborah Cooper of W M Mercer. Please note that, whilst it has been checked for robustness, there is no guarantee that the results are correct. The spreadsheet should be used for information only. Neither Deborah Cooper nor W M Mercer take any responsibility for the results produced by the spreadsheet.]
- A review of policyholders' reasonable expectations [pdf]
Mike Shelley, Mike Arnold and Peter Needleman, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 25 February 2002, and to the Faculty on 29 April 2002
- Corporate diversity and the provision of financial services [pdf]
Philippe Guijarro and David Hare, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 18 February 2002, and to the Institute on 9 May 2002
- Stochastic claims reserving in general insurance [pdf]
Peter England and Richard Verrall, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 28 January 2002
- Fair valuation of liabilities [pdf]
Fair Valuation of Liabilities Working Party, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries, and to the Institute of Actuaries, November 2001 (97 pages)
- Economic applications to actuarial work [pdf]
Alan Cantor and James Sefton, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 22 October 2001
- Transfer values. A debate. This house believes that there should be a statutory minimum to cash equivalent transfer values payable from defined benefit pension schemes [pdf]
Abstract of the debate held by the Institute of Actuaries on 24 September 2001
2000-2001
- Pensions, funding and risk [pdf]
R J Chapman, T J Gordon and C A Speed, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 23 April 2001
- Financial condition assessment [pdf]
J P Ryan, P Archer-Lock, A J Czernuszewicz, N R Gillott, P H Hinton, D C B Ibeson, S A Malde, D R L Paul and N Shah, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 26 March 2001
- Transparent with-profits - freedom with publicity [pdf]
G D Clay, R Frankland, A D Horn, J F Hylands, C M Johnson, R A Kerry, J R Lister, R L Loseby and B R Newbould, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 26 February 2001, to the Faculty of Actuaries on 19 March 2001 and to the Manchester Actuarial Society on 21 May 2001
- Risk budgeting in pension investment [pdf]
R C Urwin, S J Breban, T M Hodgson and A Hunt, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 19 February 2001
- Principles of the future education strategy [pdf]
J Goford, C S Bellis, C D Bykerk, S A Carne, S Creedon, C D Daykin, N J Dumbreck, D G R Ferguson, E M Goodwin, P H Grace, N S Henderson and P N Thornton, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 15 January 2001 and the Institute of Actuaries on 22 January 2001
- Monitoring compliance with professional guidance revisited [pdf]
Discussion paper prepared by the Compliance/Peer Review Working Party of the Professional Affairs Board. Presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 27 November 2000 and to the Faculty of Actuaries on 13 December 2000
- Living longer is bad for the nation's wealth [pdf]
Abstract of the discussion held at the Institute of Actuaries on 23 October 2000
1999-2000
- Securitisation and other financing options available to life companies [pdf]
A J Sanders, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 22 May 2000
- The Lloyd's reinsurance to close process [pdf]
D J Hindley, M Allen, A J Czernuszewicz, D C B Ibeson, W D McConnell and J G Ross, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 27 March 2000
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Pensions and low inflation [pdf]
Report of a Faculty and Institute of Actuaries Working Party.
P M C Meredith, N P Horsfall, J M Harrison, K Kneller, J M Knight and R F Murphy, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 20 March 2000 (also a SIAS paper)
- The concept of investment efficiency and its application to investment management structures [pdf]
T M Hodgson, S J Breban, C L Ford, M P Streatfield and R C Urwin, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 28 February 2000 and to the Faculty of Actuaries on 19 February 2001
- Monitoring compliance with professional guidance [pdf]
Discussion paper by the Compliance/Peer Review Working Party of the Professional Affairs Board, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 21 February 2000
- Professions in society [pdf]
C S Bellis, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 24 January 2000
- Corporate decisions in general insurance: beyond the frontier [pdf]
M Cumberworth, A N Hitchcox, W D McConnell and A D Smith, presented to the Institute of Actuaries on 22 November 1999
- A market-based approach to pricing with-profits guarantees [pdf]
D J P Hare, J A Dickson, P A P McDade, D Morrison, R P Priestley and G J Wilson, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 15 November 1999 and to the Institute of Actuaries on 17 April 2000
- Pension fund valuations and market values [pdf]
S J Head, D R Adkins, A J G Cairns, A J Corvesor, D O Cule, C J Exley, I S Johnson J G Spain and A J Wise, presented to the Institute on 25 October 1999 and the Faculty on 20 November 2000, together with the results of the Survey [pdf] of Scheme Actuaries, undertaken to assess what methods are being used in funding pension schemes
- International expansion - a UK perspective. A discussion paper [pdf]
D J Grenham, D C Chakraborty, A Chatterjee, P J Daelman, B Heistermann, L Hogg, J R Mungall, B T Porteous, S J Richards, M C Shum and J Taylor, presented to the Faculty of Actuaries on 2 October 1999