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A Closer Look at Solvency II Seminar, 28 April 2010
A review of respective roles of the risk management and actuarial functions
A review of respective roles of the risk management and actuarial functions
Addressing the data challenges of Solvency II
An update on QIS 5
Disclosure in the new world
Good practice for internal models
IMAP. An overview
Management of annuity business
Reserving for Solvency II
Solvency 2 documentation
Solvency II balance sheet
The actuary's role in ORSA
A Closer Look at Solvency II Seminar, 28 April 2010
Solvency II in Europe
Actuaries and the Law, 5 October 2010
Actuarial update - the challenges ahead.
Case update and the pilots decision
Courage links, what is really required?
Governance and rule changes
Insolvency insight - securing scheme liabilities on employer insolvency
Insolvency insight, chapter 11 & PPF insolvency events
NEST update
PPF drop ins and clearance – significant changes
Climate Change and Resource Depletion, 4 November 2010
A personal view of risk management in non-financial corporates, insurance and banking
Climate change and resource depletion - review of literature
How to eat an elephant
Current Issues in General Insurance (CIGI), 10 May 2010
Asbestos working party
BAS update
Better pricing needs better underwriting
Current issues at Lloyd's
Current issues in Ireland
Internal model approval
Navigating uncertainty: climate change scenarios
Reserving under Solvency II
The state of the reinsurance market
Update from the FSA
Current Issues in Life Assurance (CILA), 11 May 2010
Advances in risk management and product innovation
Half-year reporting on the TAS regime
Half-year reporting on the TAS regime: a BAS perspective
Regulation by the Profession
Regulatory requirements
Solvency II - indications from QIS5
Stress and scenario testing PS09/20 (effective Dec 2010)
The retail distribution review
Current Issues in Life Assurance II (CILA II), 1 September 2010
CRO roundtable - risk management challenges under Solvency II
Emerging risk
New product design challenges
Solvency II update - where the industry is, and what is needed to be done in the next 12 months
TAS overview
The future for Mutual insurers
The future for Mutual insurers
The future of the life insurance industry - a regulator's perspective
Current Issues in Pensions, 10 November 2010
A crisis of confidence
Alternative investments and discount rates
Legal update
Longevity swaps
TAS - practitioner's views and update from BAS
Current Issues in Pensions, 16 November 2010
Alternative investments and discount rates
Crisis of confidence?
Legal update
Longevity swaps
PPF update
TAS - practitioner's views and update from BAS
Current Issues in Pensions, 2 November 2010
Alternative investments and discount rates
Crisis of confidence?
Legal update
Longevity swaps
PPF update
TASs - impact on pensions advice
Current Issues in Pensions, 24 November 2010
Alternative investments and discount rates
Crisis in confidence?
Legal update
Pension de-risking and longevity swaps
PPF update
Technical Actuarial Standards – Impact on pensions advice
Current issues in pensions, 31 March 2010
Legal issues arising on closure to accrual
Current Issues in Pensions, 31 March 2010
Legal issues arising on closure to accrual
Current issues in pensions, 31 March 2010
Pensions reform 2010
Current Issues in Pensions, 31 March 2010
Pensions reform 2010
Current Issues in Pensions, 5 March 2010
The Actuaries' Code
Current Issues in Pensions, 5 March 2010
The Actuaries' Code (Handout)
Current Issues in Pensions, 9 March 2010
2012 and all that
Allowing for swaps in valuations
Allowing for swaps in valuations
Liability and risk management
Regulation by the Profession
Update from the PPF on s143 valuations
Current issues in pensions, London
PPF update
General Insurance Pricing Seminar, 17 June 2010
Aggregators - where does pricing go from here?
Competition - what does it do to your pricing models?
Developments in risk modelling
Everything you need to know about aviation pricing
Model monitoring in personal lines
PPOs: implications for pricing and reinsurance purchase
Pricing impact of claims farming, credit hire and bodily injury
Pricing SME business
Reinsurance pricing basics
Seasonality issues and issues of the season
The influence of cross sector fraud on pricing
US trend sources and techniques for commercial lines classes
Why should general insurers pay actuaries to help with pricing?
Winning with accurate pricing
General Insurance Pricing Seminar, 17 June 2010
Implications of TASs for pricing
General Insurance Reserving Seminar, 28 July 2010
Performance testing
Periodical payments
Stochastic made simple
The Amercian experience
The practical aspects of Solvency II
The TASs - where are they taking the reserving process
Third party working party
What does a CEO want from an actuary?
GIRO Conference and Exhibition, 12 - 15 October 2010
2010 General insurance conference. Complete volume of papers
A01: The TASs in practice
A02: Everything you wanted to know about the Solvency II balance sheet...
A03: ERM for emerging risks in general insurance
A03: ERM for emerging risks in general insurance (PAPER)
A04: Calibrating dependencies
A05: Meaningful intervals - build a better bootstrap
A06: The actuary's role in the ORSA
A07: Lloyd's update
A08: One year volatility and risk margins - the regulatory review
A11: Piracy
B01: Opening the black box: How actuarial algorithms work....
B02: Being at the sharp end of an ARROW visit
B03: Equitas Part VII business transfer
B04: Dealing with sparse data...
B05: Price optimisation 2.0
B06: Defining the scope of your internal model
B06: Defining the scope of your internal model - Example Model
B07: UK motor insurance cycle
B08: Pricing risk excess reinsurance
B09: The fall and rise of the standard formula
B10: How big is too big? A review of the application of the new tax rules for GI reserves
B11: UK Asbestos working party update
C01: Crop microinsurance - tackling poverty - one insurance policy at a time
C02: Price change monitoring in the Lloyd's market
C03: Data in the context of Solvency II: an example
C04: Third party motor claims
C06: Regularisation: An efficient and simple method for rating factor selection
C07: Limits to growth
C08: Solvency II balance sheets in simulation-based capital models
C09: The modelling of reinsurance credit risk
C10: Challenges for GI actuaries
C12: QIS5 current issues
D01: How the Actuarial Profession can improve its image
D02: Solvency II and technical provisions: Dealing with the risk margin
D03: A link between the one year and ultimate perspective on insurance risk
D04: Strategic asset allocation and Solvency II
D05: Personal lines pricing: current issues and opportunities for 2011 (slides)
D06: Statistical quality standards? Correlations? Help!
D07: A reality of the use test
D08: Current issues in Ireland
D09: Stress testing in a time of models
D10: Measuring the value added by technical pricing techniques in commercial lines of business (slides)
D11: Proactive data-driven counter fraud: Mining for digital gold (slides)
D12: The importance of assumption consistency...
E02: Enhanced GLMs and vehicle grouping
E03: Offshore energy insurance
E04: PPOs - be afraid, be very afraid
E05: Reverse stress testing
E06: Solvency II and long tail liabilities
E07: Case studies in the application of relative entrophy to ESGs and catastrophe modelling (slides)
E08: IFRS - all clear now? The future of insurance accounting - IFRS 4 Phase II (slides)
E09: Reserving for Solvency II. What you need to be doing now!
E10: Can we help? Banks: Reserving for bad debt
E11: Solvency II risk margins - cooking up a storm?
F01: Practical issues with implementing an ERM framework
General Insurance Convention (GIRO) papers 2010
GIRO 2010 Actuarial impact - rising to the challenge. Entire volume of papers
PL1: Commercial lines pricing
PL1: Current developments and pricing in the reinsurance market
PL1: Results of the ratemaking survey
PL2: Don't get court with your standards down
PL2: Pre-application reflections from the practitioner and the reviewer
PL2: The new standards landscape - have your say!
PL2: The new standards landscape - have your say! Electronic debate submission
PL2: The new standards landscape - have your say! Survey results
PL3: Rising to the challenge
PL4: Periodic Payment Orders
PL4: Periodic Payment Orders PAPER
PL4: PPOs is this the next asbestos?
PL4: Solvency II reserving
PL4: Third party motor claims
PL5: Relying on others - the CAT modelling agency's perspective
PL5: Relying on others - the CRO perspective
PL5: The consultant's perspective
PL6: Behavioural ERM and the ORSA
PL6: Pre-application reflections from the practioner and the reviewer
PL6: Risk margins and technical provisions
PL7: Fraud as an emerging risk
PL7: Marine piracy
PL7: The future: in space and on earth
Understanding the Business Better Working Party
GIRO Conference and Exhibitions 2011
Free market GIRO working party paper 2007/2008
Health and care conference 2010
Assessing insurer underwriting, claims standards and philosophy during a reinsurance tender
Critical illness: learning from experience
Data driven group business: how insurers can support change in the employee benefits market
Enough about critical illness trends (what about a cycle?)
Exclusions: a closer look at the small print
Health insurance and Solvency II
Healthcare: the future
Launching a new product into an established market
Mortality in the under 40s: a deadly cocktail of drink, drugs and stress?
Private medical insurance developments in Ireland
Stress under pressure and thinking correctly under pressure
The green paper on "Shaping the future of care together" - where to next?
The green paper on "Shaping the future of care together" - where to next?
The green paper on "Shaping the future of care together" - where to next?
The health of income protection, today and tomorrow
The impact of the economy on life and health
Understanding catastrophe risks
Understanding medical tests and how to use them
Update on professional standards
Using tele-interviewing in health insurance - the business rational
What is the real impact of smoking bans?
Who will pay for long term care? Navigating towards a sustainable solution for long term care in the United Kingdom
Health and care conference 2010
Seeing the heart of the matter - advances in cardiac imaging and the insurance industry
The principles of the health reform discussions in China, the United States and South Africa
Highlights of the 2009 Life Conference 2010
Retail distribution review: the where, what and why
Highlights of the 2009 Life Conference, 23 February 2010
Economics update
GAR compromise scheme
How insurers survived the financial crisis - a reviewing actuary's perspective
Lessons learned from Lehmans
Longevity risk: Issues to be considered
Myths about Solvency II
NEST (Personal Accounts). Understanding the impacts on insurers
Highlights of the 2009 Life Conference, 23 February 2010
GAR compromise scheme
Highlights of the Pensions conference 2010, London
PL2: Governance and building a community
Highlights of the Pensions Conference, 23 September 2010
Discounting pensions cash flows for accounting valuations
Employer covenant 2006 to 2010
Highlights from plenary 2: improving reputation and influence
Highlights from plenary 3: our changing world and a pensions TAS update
How long are we going to live?
The risky side of life
Highlights of the Pensions Conference, 30 September 2010
Employer covenant assessment
Highlights from plenary 2: improving reputation and influence
Highlights from plenary 3: our changing world and a pensions TAS update
Non-cash asset funding strategies for pension schemes
The risky side of life
The role of the chief pensions officer
The role of the chief pensions officer additional material 1
The role of the chief pensions officer additional material 2
International Congress of Actuaries, 3 October 2010
Mortality by cause of death and by socio-economic and demographic stratification
Life conference and exhibition 2010
A01: With-profit funds' investment strategies
A02: How bad can it get? Modelling extreme events
A03: Towards real time valuation - the Scottish Friendly experience
A06: Operating model changes following the retail distribution review
A07: QIS5
A08: Mortality projections and Solvency II
A09: An introduction to the practical challenges of managing operational risk
A10: Making sure actuaries don't choke on their free lunch
A11: A basic guide to Solvency II
A12: Underwriting and claims: do the AFH/FD/CRO really understand the risks involved?
A3: Towards real time valuation - the Scottish Friendly experience
B01: Life and Longevity Markets Association
B02:Contingent capital in a post-Solvency II world
B03: Measuring and modelling dependencies in economic capital
B04: Learning from experience: how to understand policyholder behaviour
B05: Issues in unit-linked fund governance
B06: CEIOPS and FSA internal model guidence so far and to come
B07: Effective management of persistency experience
B08: Taxation in a Solvency II world
B09: Solvency II - practical challenges of implementing the documentation test
B10: When you can't diversify how can you divest?
B10: When you can't diversify how can you divest?
B11: How to really make sense of enterprise risks?
B12: The UK life market in 2010 and beyond - a rating agency perspective
C01: Counterparty risks within groups
C03: Who will win the premier league?
C04: All I want for Christmas is... accurate, complete and appropriate data
C06: Do enchanced annuities damage the market? An investigation into residual standard mortality
C07: Practical aspects of premium reviews
C08: Compliance with Solvency II internal model tests
C09: A practical beginners guide to managing operational risk
C10: Risk management , hedging and product design in a with-profits fund
C12: Solvency II - a rating agency perspective
Critical illness: learning from experience
D01: 10 years in Asia - a practical guide to working overseas
D02: What keeps CEOs awake at night
D03: Close calls: when to say yes and when to say no
D05: Project management - a skill for the good times?
D07: Your voice as a weapon of persuasion
D12: Who should do an MBA?
E01: With-profits in the new decade
E03: Market data challenges for Solvency II
E04: HIV - yesterday's insurance pandemic?
E05: Life at Lloyd's
E06: Longevity risk management - how good a hedge is good enough?
E07: IMAP update
E08: The TASs in practice
E11: New ways of working - finance transformation
E4: HIV - yesterday's insurance pandemic?
F03: Application of extreme value theory to risk capital estimation - Part 1
F03: Application of extreme value theory to risk capital estimation - Part 2
F04: Postcodes: healthy, wealthy and wise?
F05: The challenges and rewards of policy outsourcing
F06: With-profits mutuals: the fight for survival
F09: Enhancing reporting timescales
F10: The implications of QIS5 for UK companies
F11: Meeting the challenges of developing an internal model
F12: IFRS phase 2 - friend or foe?
HT01: Insurance accounting: Phase II and implications
HT02: Differentiation or discrimination?
HT03: Insurance stress testing
HT04: Yield curve dynamics and implications for insurers
HT05: Solvency II update
Life conference and exhibition 2010
E02: Aggregation techniques for Solvency II: a practical example
Momentum conference 2010
A01: Thinking the long finance: what could really be done about short-termism?
A03: Solvency II - a business and regulatory perspective
A04: I intend to live forever: so far so good
A2: The crowded market
B01: Why should banks have all the fun?
B02: Key challenges: reflections from the FSA
B03: What will a pension scheme look like in 20 years?
B05: Solutions for distressed schemes and sponsors
C02: Enhancements to risk modelling for personal lines pricing
C03: IFRS 4 Phase II - proposals and their impact on the life insurance industry
C04: Longevity market transactions - a user's guide
C1: The investment implications of Solvency II
C5: Critical illness - this is your life?
D02: Solvency II IMAP
D03: How ERM can make you a savvy actuary
D04: All change - a legal perspective
D05: Annuity risk transfer market - a fad or here to stay?
D1: Discount rates: who needs them?
E01: Life as an actuary in an investment bank
E02: Solvency II and technical provisions - what you need to be doing now!
E04: Cutting edge solutions for pension schemes
E5: Life, the universe and the completely random
PL2: Update on professional standards
Pl3: The climate change industrial revolution - does it matter to actuaries and the Actuarial Profession
Pl3: The climate change industrial revolution - does it matter to actuaries and the Actuarial Profession
W4: How to become a confident networker
Momentum Conference 2010
A05: Products of the future
Mortality and longevity seminar, 17 March 2010
An uncertain baseline: credibility of mortality experience
Emerging insights from Club Vita
Grouping postcodes by mortality. What are the challenges?
Modelling multi-population mortality with cohort effects
New possibilities in moving from individual patient records to assumption setting
Update on the latest work of the CMI
Whither human survival - the shape of things to come
Networking evening: Instant underwriting in a world which won't wait, 18 February 2010
A changing marketplace
Networking Event: ERM Guide, 20 April 2010
Actuaries and ERM
Source of uncertainty at each stage of programme life cycle: uncertainty levels diminish progressively
The new ERM Guide
Networking Event: Positive Leadership, 6 December 2010
Networking event: positive leadership
Networking event: positive leadership - ABC lingerie 1
Networking event: positive leadership - ABC lingerie A
Networking event: positive leadership - Abraham Lincoln
Networking event: positive leadership - Explanatory style
Networking event: positive leadership - Good things come in threes
Networking event: positive leadership - Optimism checklist
Networking event: positive leadership - The wheel of life
Open forum on Irish issues, 23 February 2010
Irish presentation
Regulator update
Open forum: a one in two hundred or a one in 10 year event? 9 March 2010
2008 - a year in 200?
Risk and the financial crisis: Why we should look at the data rather than make excuses about 'tsunami' events
Open Forum: Discount Rates, 23 March 2010
Discount rates forum, 23 March 2010. Complete set of slides
Open forum: discounting pension cashflows for accounting valuation. 30 March 2010
Comparison to other areas of accounting
Discount rate project: should discount rates differ?
Discounting pension cashflows for accounting valuations. Accounting themes
Open forum: discounting pension cashflows for accounting valuation. 30 March 2010
Comparison to other areas of accounting
Discount rate project: should discount rates differ?
Discounting pension cashflows for accounting valuations. Accounting themes
Pensions are different from insurance. Should that matter in accounting?
Pensions are different from insurance. Should that matter in accounting?
Open Forum: is High Inflation Inevitable, 12 April 2010
Is high inflation inevitable?
Open Forum: Joint Event with the IPF: Property Investment Past, Present and Future, 18 October 2010
Overview
Open Forum: Joint Event with the IPF: Property Investment Past, Present and Future, 18 October 2010
Property future
Property past trends
Open Forum: Latest Developments in Longevity Hedging for Pension Schemes, 13 October 2010
Banks perspective, Chris Watts
Latest developments in longevity hedging for pension schemes
Open forum: latest developments in longevity hedging for pension schemes
Open Forum: Market-Consistent Valuations and Solvency II: Implications of the Recent Financial Crisis, 16 July 2010
Open forum: market-consistent valuations and Solvency II: implications of the recent financial crisis (mp3 sound file)
Open forum: market-consistent valuations and Solvency II: implications of the recent financial crisis - Presentation
Open forum: market-consistent valuations and Solvency II: implications of the recent financial crisis - Speech
Open Forum: Market-Consistent Valuations and the Implications of the Recent Financial Crisis, 16 September 2010
Open forum: market-consistent valuations and Solvency II: implications of the recent financial crisis - Paper
Open forum: Mortality projections - the latest CMI model and discussion of current practice 9 December 2010 and 19 January 2011
Latest CMI mortality projections (Mp3 sound file)
Mortality projections - the latest CMI model and discussion of current practice (slides from 9 Dec 2010/19 Jan 2011 open forum)
The latest CMI model and discussion of current practice (slides from 9 Dec 2010/19 Jan 2011 open forum)
Open Forum: Non-Bank Lending. 4 March 2010
Loans. An asset class overview
Open Forum: Non-Bank Lending. 4 March 2010
Non-bank lending
Presentation for the open forum on non-bank lending
Open Forum: Sovereign Debt Risks: Devaluations and Resultant Economic Impacts - UK and Greece, 18 June 2010
Six fiscal options
Open Forum: the Actuarial Function Under Solvency II, 1 December 2010
A company perspective
Functional analysis
The actuarial function - what is the point?
Open Forum: The Influence of Pensions Risk on Equity and Bond Prices, 5 July 2010
Corporate bond spreads, equity volatility and pension funds
Pension deficits, credit spreads and corporate bond returns
Open Forum: The Influence of Pensions Risk on Equity and Bond Prices, 5 July 2010
Do equity returns reflect pension risk?
Our changing future open forum, 15 April 2010
A holistic framework for life cycle financial planning
Oxford and the Actuarial Profession: the Secret Mathematicians, 10 November 2010
Oxford and the Actuarial Profession: the secret mathematicians. Marcus du Sautoy (slides)
Pensions and Corporate Finance Seminar, 17 February 2010
Do financial markets take account of pension risk?
Implications of how analysts assess pension risk
The corporate finance view - pensions and effective ERM
The regulator's view - responding to pension risk in the UK economy
The trustee's view - making the most of the company account
Pensions and Other Employee Benefit Issues in Mergers and Acquisitions, 26 October 2011
Pensions and other employee benefit issues in mergers and acquisitions
Pensions Conference, 9 - 11 June 2010
Advisors
Changing course - do employers need trustee consent for future service changes?
Climate change and resource depletion
De-risking solutions are everywhere - but what is the impact on the sponsors?
Discounting pension cashflows for accounting valuations
Discover the secrets of outstanding networkers
Employer covenant
Exposure draft. Defined benefit plans (Slides)
Funding in a LDI world
Governance and building a community
Higher earner pensions tax
How long are we going to live?
How long are we going to live? Insights on the past and future
Improving best practice workshop
Influence of actuaries in government
Influencing change
Legal update
Longevity swaps
NEST
Non-cash funding for pensions schemes
Pensions 2012 - are you ready?
Pensions TAS update
Risk reduction or planning your route by buy-out
So you think you know the new TASs
The risky side of managing life. Managing longevity risk
Top 10 pensions papers you should read
Top 10 pensions papers you should read - additional material
Trustee investment
Update from the PPF
What do trustees want from their actuary?
Your disciplinary scheme and how it affects you
Pensions, Benefits and Social Security Colloquium 2011
White Paper - Government Facilitated Retirement Income Plans
Professionalism: a matter of principle...?, 18 November 2011
Professionalism: a matter of principle...?
Risk and Investment Conference, 13 - 15 June 2010
Characteristics of different risks working party [slides]
Construction of efficient stock market indices
CPD and Actuaries' Code update [slides]
Enterprise risk from the view of the investor working party
ERM for strategic and emerging risks working party [slides]
Excess volatility revisited [slides]
Extreme events: robust portfolio construction in the presence of fat tails [slides]
Financial crisis [slides]
Impact of behavioural finance on investment [slides]
Impacts of regulation and market turbulence on annuity fund investment strategies working party
Lessons we have learned regarding risk management modelling [slides]
Macroeconomic scenarios: a frequency domain approach [slides]
Pension fund governance - a CEO's view [slides]
Pricing and trading of limited price indexation (LPI) swaps
Real life case studies of professionalism issues [slides]
Reconciling different risk measures working party
Regulatory frameworks - lessons learned from the crisis and potential implications for long-term investors [slides]
Risk adjusted performance measurement working party [slides]
Risk and compensation [slides]
Sovereign credit risk [slides]
Update from the Actuarial Profession [slides]
Risk and Investment Conference, 13-15 June 2010
Pricing and trading of limited price indexation (LPI) swaps [VBA code spreadsheet]
TAS Awareness Seminar, 17 July 2010
Technical Actuarial Standards – impact on pensions advice
TAS Awareness Seminar, 21 June 2010
General insurance
TAS overview
TAS Awareness Seminar, 21 June 2010
Life / Health and care
The End of Pension Scheme-Liability Management, 2 December 2010
Current legal issues
De-risking
Ensuring scheme data is fit for purpose
FAS valuations
Functional analysis
Investment, the Pension Protection Fund
Longevity bonds
PL03 A company perspective, Kevin Bogue
PL04: Trustees perspective 1
The actuarial function
Transferring schemes to PPF
Trustee perspective 2
Using Term-Dependent Assumptions for Pension Scheme Valuations, 30 June 2010
Using term-dependent assumptions for pension scheme valuations
Variable Annuities: Bridging the Divide, 17 September 2010
A01: Economic scenarios generator
A02: Complementary and competing products
Analyst's perspective
B01: Operations, governance and infrastructure
B02: Hedge instruments - from vanilla to exotic
Global perspective
Product developments: past, present and perfect?
Regulation and regulatory developments
Solvency II impacts, implications and opportunity for VA
