General Insurance Convention 2002

Paris, 2002

The following papers were presented at the 2002 GIRO Convention. The papers are in Adobe Acrobat format.

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Write up of Convention, by Catherine Barton [pdf]

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Entries for the Brian Hey Prize

  Pricing excess of loss treaty with loss sensitive features: an exposure rating approach [slides, pdf]
Ana J Mata, Brian Fannin, Mark A Verheyen
Paper [pdf]
  Insurance World 2: A complex model for managing risk in the age of globalisation [paper, pdf]
Gionta Giuseppe

 

Plenary Sessions

Session A   The cost of compensation culture [paper, pdf]
Julian Lowe, Chairman
Session C   Corporate risk management: the growing importance of risk data analysis [slides, pdf]
Mark Butterworth, Chairman, Institute of Risk Management
Session C   Insurance company failure [paper, pdf]
Roger Massey, Chairman
Session E

 

The management of losses arising from extreme events [paper, pdf]
David Sanders, Chairman

Extreme events part 2. Financial catastrophes. The overthrow of modern financial theory [paper, pdf]
David Sanders, Chairman
 

Session E  

World Trade Center: an update [slides, pdf]
David Sanders

Session E   Actuaries: Broader? Deeper? or Uncertain? [pdf]
Bob Conger, President, CAS
Session G   Update on the future regulation of insurance [ppt]
John Tiner, Financial Services Authority
Session G  

Operational Risk Working Party report [paper, pdf]
James Orr, Chairman

Session J   The IASB proposals and non-life insurance [paper, pdf]
Guest speaker: Peter Clark, International Accounting Standards Board

 
Working Party Reports

  Aviation insurance [pdf]
Justyn Harding, Chairman

 

Claims Reserving Working Party paper [paper, pdf]
Graham Lyons, Chairman
Excel models [zip] (request models from libraries@actuaries.org.uk)
  • Mack.xls - Enables user to derive reserve ranges using the Mack (1994) method (Section 5.2 refers)
  • PractStoch.xls - Risk sheet for reserving Stochastic Reserving - a Case Study (2) (Section 5.3)
  • CapeCod.xls - Covers the Cape Cod Methods (Section 6)
  • LinearModels.xls - Covers linear actuarial reserving methods (Section 7) plus Generalised Cape Cod sheet using non-iterative process
  European weather derivatives [paper, pdf]
Nick Ross, Chairman
  UK Household: floods, inflation and under insurance [paper, pdf]
Rob Cowley, Chairman
  Customer Value Measurement Working Party report [paper, pdf]
David Brown, Chairman
  Investment strategy [slides, pdf]
Andrew Smith, Chairman
Slides [ppt]
Excel models [zip]
  Loss portfolio transfers [paper, pdf]
Andy Macnair, Chairman
  Using the work of other professionals [summary, pdf]
Andrew Newman, Chairman
Slides [ppt]

 

Workshops

  Capital allocation in the Lloyd's insurance market [slides, pdf]
Andreas Tsanakas, Chairman
Slides [ppt, 1.8 mb]
  Dependent tails [paper, pdf]
Andrew Smith, Chairman
  Nash's Nobel [paper, pdf]
Andrew Smith, Chairman
  Realistic disaster scenarios for Lloyd's (RDS) [ppt, 2.6 mb]
Robert Humphreys, Chairman
  Insurance related solvency regimes [ppt]
Derek Newton, Chairman
  Stochastic reserving in general insurance [ppt]
Peter England, Chairman
  Two approaches to calculating correlated indications across multiple lines of business [paper, pdf]
Gerald Kirschner, Chairman
  IAS - New actuarial techniques required [pdf]
Christian Partrat, Chairman
Slides [ppt]
  A beginner's guide to Bayesian modelling [ppt]
Peter England, Chairman

Additional workshops, not listed in the programme

  Postcode zoning in personal lines rating [summary, pdf]
Duncan Anderson, Chairman
  Fair value accounting risk margins [summary, pdf]
Catherine Cresswell, Chair
  FSA financial resource requirements [summary, pdf]
Peter Hinton, Chairman
Slides [ppt]
Text [pdf]
  Managing the operational risks of user-developed software [paper, pdf]
Louise Pryor, Chair
  Practical stochastic reserving [summary, pdf]
Justin Skinner, Chairman

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