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Difficult Risks and Capital Models: A discussion paper
Application of the actuarial function to general insurance companies
Commodities investment
Derivatives: a practical guide for users
E05 The Government’s State Pension reform plans
Estimating risk profiles for common diseases from environmental and genetic factors
Excel spread sheet #1
Financial repression – what does it mean for savers & investors
Incorporating model uncertainty into mortality forecasts
Life Insurance Stress & Scenario Testing Survey 2013
Mortality and Smoking Prevalence
Open Forum: Managing Investment Portfolio to Maximise Returns Whilst Investing Responsibly
Open Forum: The Risk-Free Rate: Politics, Economics and Investment
Pension Scheme Investing, the role of derivatives
Pensions Infrastructure Platform, NAPF
Pensions investment in infrastructure, Alan Rubenstein
Pensions investment in infrastructure, Robert Gardner
Solvency II Technical Provisions for General Insurers
The future of De-risking and journey planning
The Grizzled Actuary
The Trustee Perspective
ACA Pensions Conference
SAPS mortality experience - current data and trends
Conflicts of Interest
Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions and Life)
Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions)
Conflicts of Interest Interactive Session (Pensions and GI)
Conflicts of Interest Interactive Session (Pensions and GI)
Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions)
.Conflicts of Interest: Interactive Session (Pensions)
Current Highlights in Penions Seminar, Leeds
Plenary 3: Macroeconomics of Pension Funds
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminar, 26 November, London
A1 - Asset Backed Funding
C1: Actuaries Code V 2.0
Macroeconomics of Pension Funds
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminar, 26 November, London
C1: APS P1
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminar, Bristol
A1 - Asset Backed Funding
A2 - Effective Employee/Member Communications
B2 - IORP Directive
C1 - case study with questions
C1 - conflicts of interest
C1: Actuaries Code V 2.0
C1: APS P1
Economic Outlook
Plenary - Macroeconomics of Pension Funds
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminar, Glasgow
A1 - Asset Backed Funding
B2: IORP Directive
C1: An update on conflicts of interest and the Actuaries Code
C1: Case study with questions
C1: The Actuaries' Code v 2.0
C2: The latest on buy-outs & buy-ins
Economic Outlook
Macroeconomics of Pension Funds
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminar, Leeds
A1 - Asset Backed Funding
C1: An update on conflicts of interest and the Actuaries Code
C1: APS P1
C1: Case study with questions
C1: The Actuaries' Code v 2.0
C2: The latest on buy-outs & buy-ins
C2: The latest on buy-outs & buy-ins
Economic Outlook
Effective Employee/Member Communications
Macroencomics of Pension Funds
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminar, London
A1 - Asset Backed Funding
A2: Effective Employee/Member Communications
C1: Actuaries Code V 2.0
C1: Case study with questions
C2: The latest on buy-outs & buy-ins
Macroeconomics of Pension Funds
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminar, London 26 November
C1: An update on conflicts of interest and the Actuaries Code
C1: Case study with questions
C2: The latest on buy-outs and buy-ins
Effective Employee/Member Communications
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminars, Glasgow
Effective Employee/Member Communications
Fiduciary Management
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminars, Leeds
Fiduciary Management
Current Highlights in Pensions Seminars, London 26 November
Economic Outlook
Current Issues in General Insurance (CIGI)
B3: Update from the Third Party claims working party
B5: Update from Asbestos and Deafness working parties
Plenary 3: PRA Update
Current Issues in General Insurance (CIGI) 2013
A1: Update from Lloyd's on Capital Reserves and Solvency II
A2 B2: Actuarial Function - not that straightforward!
A3: PPO's: Results and issues from the 2012 working party
A4: Pricing Uncertainty: ignore volatility at your peril!
A5: Irish Issues
B1: Update from Lloyd's on Capital Reserves and Solvency II
B4: Discrimination working party - opportunity to see GIRO's Workshop
Plenary 6: Is the current insurance model going to die?
Plenary2: UK floods - an update from the ABI
PPO's an increasing challenge for insurers
PPO's an increasing challenge for insurers
Current Issues in Life Assurance (CILA) 2013
How Solvency II could potentially not help the growth of the European economy
Implications for insurance industry of the introduction of ICAS+ before Solvency II
Introduction to EMIR for insurers
Managing an insurance business in a low rate environment
RDR and pension reform – how it is playing out in the real world
Recovery and resolution plans
Tax legislation changed - so what?
Current Issues in Life Assurance II 2013
Annuities: challenging times
The new regime: FCA
Unit linked business thematic review: how does it work in practice?
Yield Curve Construction and Implications for Asset-Liability Management
“Son of Solvency II”
Current Issues in Pensions, Bristol 25 April
Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet
Cautionary tales
Effective liability management
Funding in the current climate
Improving DC member outcomes
IORP II
Member options - getting it right
Current Issues in Pensions, Edinburgh, 30 April
Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet
Cautionary tales
Effective liability management
Funding in the current climate
Improving DC member outcomes
IORP II
Member options - getting it right
Current Issues in Pensions, London, 16 April
Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet
Cautionary tales
Effective liability management
Funding in the current climate
Improving DC member outcomes
IORP II
Member options - getting it right
Current Issues in Pensions, Manchester, 18 April
Assessing sponsor covenant for the holistic balance sheet
Cautionary tales
Effective liability management
Funding in the current climate
Improving DC member outcomes
IORP II
Member options - getting it right
Enhancing your Business with ORSA
Engaging the business through ORSA
Perspective from the Board Room
The assessment of ‘Own Solvency Needs’
Update on regulations and emerging practice
Frailty Workshop
Socioeconomic and Gender Inequalities in Trajectories of Frailty
What Causes Frailty?
“Frailty – a vulnerability and the funny knee”
General Insurance Pricing Seminar
D3: GIRO Third Party Claims Working Party – Latest developments and findings relevant to pricing
E1: Price Monitoring in the Lloyd's market: Where to go next?
Uses of GLM in the competitive market
General Insurance Reserving Seminar
Plenary 6: Preliminary results from the Third Party Working Party: Motor reserving issues based on the latest 2012 industry data
GIRO 40
AF Workshop slides consolidated
GIRO Conference and Exhibition 2011
Extending the Mack Bootstrap
GIRO40
A Report from GIRO Advanced Pricing Techniques (APT) Working Party
A01 - Avoiding the professional foul
A02 - What are the drivers of the treatment of large bodily injury claims and PPOs across the industry...
A03 - UK Deafness Working Party update
A04 and E04 - Capital allocation leading practices
A05 - Is your cat model a dog?
A06 - Using index insurance for weather risks
A07- As the CRO flies
A08 - Navigating the low Interest rate environment
A09 - What can we learn from “Aussie Rules”?
A10 - Would you fly Air Actuary?
B01 - Regulatory reform, the PRA and the Bank of England
B02 - Third party motor: the results of the fourth working party (2012/13)
B03 - It all depends…
B05 - New investment strategies for general insurers
B06 - Report of the Solvency II Technical Provisions Working Party
B06 - Solvency II Techical Provisions for General Insurers
B07 - Big things come in small packages
B07 - Big things come in small packages – Actuaries of Smaller Insurers Working Party
B08 - Bodily injury – where next?
B09 - Emerging mobile technology
B10: What is keeping my CEO awake at night?
B11 - ERM in an optimal control framework
C01 - Application of the actuarial function to GI companies
C02 - Reinsurance challenges and expectations for 2014
C03 - Economic scenario generators..
C04 - IMAP Working Party update
C05 - Update from UK Asbestos Working Party
C06 - Generalized Linear Models for Non-life Pricing
C06 - Update from Advanced Pricing Techniques Working Party
C07 & E07 - Lloyd’s annual update
C08 - Irish issues
C10 - How to deal with PPOs in practice
C11 - The leading edge of risk research
D01 - Life cycle of the peril
D02 - Correlations between long tail LOBs, common drivers and a single composite model for multiple LOBs
D03 - Modelling the post-crisis world: sovereign debt and other credit risk issues
D04 - Risk MI – embedding within the business
D05 - Economic capital model validation: process and technical guidelines
D06 - Back of the envelope price optimisation
D08 - Women in the actuarial profession
D10 - Engaging with the board
E03 - Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater
E04 - Capital allocation leading practices
E05 - Is your cat model a dog?
E06 - How technology is changing the face of commercial lines pricing
E07 - Lloyd’s annual update
E08 - TORP update: AvE – curse or blessing?
E09 - Capital modelling - what you can learn from other professions
E11 - 110 years of ruin theory: how can it help risk management today?
E11 - Presentation Spreedsheet
E11 - Ruin Theory Starter Kit #1
Plenary 1 - Neil Cantle
Plenary 1 - Stephen Wilcox
Plenary 2 - Ioannis Kotsianos
Plenary 2 - James Toller
Plenary 2 - Paul Kaye
Plenary 3 - Richard Cornish
Plenary 3 - Clare Barley and Phil Ellis
Plenary 3 - Dynamic Risk
Plenary 3 - Hot Topics PPOs
Plenary 3 - Jonathan Burdett
Plenary 3 - Nick Line & Joe Monk
Plenary 4 - Matthew Evans and Will Forster
Plenary 4 - Michael Davern
Plenary 4 - More Than The Sum of the Parts
Plenary 5 - Professional Regulation Update
Plenary 6 - Board with Reserving
Plenary 6 - Lies, damn Lies and Stochastics
Reversible Jump Markov Chain Monte Carlo method
Ruin Theory Starter Kit #1
Solvency II Technical Provisions for General Insurers
Update Periodical Payment Orders Working Party
Health and Care Conference 2013
A01: Horrors from down under
A03: Critical Illness claims experience
A04: Predictive modelling - not just an underwriting tool!
B01: Long Term Care insurance:avoiding potential pitfalls (lessons from the US)
B02: Voluntary Income Protection topics
B03: Simplifying the underwriting process
B04: IPMI - profitable growth opportunity or saturated market
C01: Why do people not tell us what we think they should - and what can we do about it?
C02: Whole of life disability products - customer friendly design or an actuary's worst pricing nightmare?
C03: Solvency II ORSA - Implications for Solvency II Standard Formula firms
C04: Extending the critical path
Critical Illness claims experience
D02: Lessons from the emerging markets
D03: Pricing IP with early intervention
D04: Critical Illness in Asia - a success story
E01: Understanding consumer behaviour - what can statistics tell us?
E02: No sex please we're British
E04: Insights into recent Income Protection experience by cause of sickness
F01: Work-motivating interviews and claims management
F03: Reinsurance structuring under Solvency II
F04: Update from the long term care working party following the decision to implement Dilnot
G01: Group mentality - developments and pressures in the group risk market
G02: Beagle Street - the building of a new online brand
G03: From small things big things one day come: the future of cancer diagnosis
G04: Providing affordable health solutions for the grey market
Insights into recent income protection experience by cause of sickness
Plenary 2: The Big Picture: what the last five years (and the next and the next five) mean for you, your career and your business
Plenary 4: Brave new worlds of shared information
Plenary 5: Protection Gap or Protection Trap?
Plenary 6: The role of the Money Advice Service (MAS) in understanding insurance needs
Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, Birmingham
Aligning culture, structure and systems to manage capital, risk and performance
Creating a strong and vibrant actuarial team
Internal model calibration – how to satisfy the board, group, regulator
Operational risk: no longer Cinderella?
Operational risk: no longer Cinderella?
The potential impact of stem cell therapy on our industry
The risk-free rate: politics, economics and investment
There's more to life than Solvency II
What does validation of the ORSA look like?
Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, Dublin
Aligning culture, structure and systems to manage capital, risk and performance
Apps, Android and Apple - the new generation of insurance customers
How to do a with-profits run off plan?
Internal model calibration – how to satisfy the board, group, regulator
Operational risk: no longer Cinderella?
The potential impact of stem cell therapy on our industry
The risk-free rate: politics, economics and investment
There's more to life than Solvency II
What does validation of the ORSA look like?
Who is going to live to 100?
Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, Edinburgh
Creating a strong and vibrant actuarial team
European M & A – the perfect storm or a buying opportunity?
From embedding the ICA to satisfying the Solvency II use test
Implications for insurers of a sovereign debt crisis - Irish case study
Making your ORSA real
Matching adjustment - an industry view on the latest Solvency II answer to an important risk based capital modelling question
The risk free rate: politics, economics and environment
There’s more to life than Solvency II
Who is going to live to 100?
Highlights of the Life Conference 2012 Seminar, London
Apps, Androids and Apple – the new generation of insurance customers
Creating a strong and vibrant actuarial team
European M & A – the perfect storm or a buying opportunity?
From “Embedding the ICA” to satisfying the Solvency II use test
Implications for insurers of a sovereign debt crisis - Irish case study
Making your ORSA real
Matching adjustment - an industry view on the latest Solvency II answer to an important risk based capital modelling question
The risk free rate: politics, economics and investment
There’s more to life than Solvency II
Investment Strategy for Pension Schemes - 'Post QE'?
Alternative inflation hedging investments
Investment Strategy for Pension Schemes Post - 'QE'?
Pension scheme investment in a low interest rate environment
Tail Risks
Life Conference and Exhibition 2013
A01: Personal impact – the importance of words, voice tone and body language
A02: Taking the lid off Least Squares Monte Carlo
A03: Materiality and expert judgment frameworks
A04: Predictive modelling around the world
A05: Recent developments in the ICA+ regime
A06: Current issues in With Profits
A07: Market trends in M&A
A08: Employer sponsored benefits - the impact on the wider life market
A09: The New UK Life Tax Regime
A11: Uncertainty in longevity assumptions
A12: Financial repression – is it inevitable and what will it mean for insurers
B02: Friendly Societies - how are they surviving
B03: Operational risk modelling: spuriouser and spuriouser
B04: Constructing lapse stress scenarios
B05: The Rise and Rise of Stress and Scenario Testing
B06: Cognitive, Psychological and Social Drivers of Mortality (ERM)
B07: Equity release - why it remains a solid investment in Europe's turbulent economy
B08: All annuities, all underwritten - all right?
B09: Insights into policyholder behaviour
B10: Getting used to EU driven legislation
B11: Bank deleveraging – a diversification opportunity for with-profits and annuity funds
B12: Portfolio-specific mortality modelling
C01: Data visualisation for business insight
C02: Projection of the With-Profits Balance Sheet Under ICA+
C04: Is the value chain broken? Can providers still make money and how do actuaries remain relevant?
C05: Irish Life Closed With Profits Fund
C06: Long Term Care - an international perspective
C07: Professional Skills for Experienced Members
C09: IFRS 4 Phase II is coming – are you ready?
C10: Interest rate risk management: What can we learn from the active LDI managers
C12: Ireland - five years on from the crisis
D01: Presenting with impact to Boards and Committees
D02: Two hats on one head: balancing the interests of the entity and the group
D03: Financial reinsurance – market activity, regulatory and technical aspects
D04: Impact of EMIR and Basel III on European insurer ALM and risk management
D05: The UK Life Market in 2013 and Beyond – A Rating Agency Perspective
D07: Social Use - the next area of scrutiny?
D08: The FCA's Thematic Review into Unit Linked Fund Governance
D09: Locked in the black box: releasing business insight from your model (ERM)
D10: ORSA - an international development
D11: Risk Appetites - how to set and how to use
D12: PS12/04 - stick or twist?
E01: What will the life industry and actuaries look like in 2025?
E03: With Profits Restructuring - from feasibility to implementation
E04: Resource and environmental limits to economic growth
E05: How ICAs will need to evolve
E06: Sex is overrated! – Why were we so worried about the Gender Directive?
E07: The continuing evolution of the pension buyout market
E08: If only life was that simple
E09: IFRS 4 Phase 2: practical implications
E10: Three lines of defence - where does the CRO's role start and end?
E11: Balancing oversight with insight from the risk function
E12: Towards an industry standard to assess longevity basis risk
F02: Liquidity Risk - a growing challenge in Insurance
F04: Turning the Spotlight on Expert Judgement
F05: Pandemic panic
F06: Governance
F07: Longevity catalysts
F08: How will anyone pay for their social care?
F09: Life insurance and the 'new normal'
F10: Professional skills for experienced members
F11: Profit reporting: why can't anyone tell me how much we actually made?
G01: Collaborative leadership
G02: Internal model validation - what have we learnt and what next?
G04: Liquidity Premiums - Update from Working Party
G05: Leveraging banking credit risk modelling tools within an internal model framework
G06: Turning policyholders into customers
G07: Pensions vs insurance - a collision of actuarial thinking
G08: Why BMI?
G10: Reporting for duty: Moving to more efficient financial reporting
G11: RDR: increased transparency or added confusion? Lessons learned from overseas
G12: How do you organize your risk function?
Plenary 3: A makeover for mortality
Plenary 4: What financial services will older people be looking for in ten years' time and what needs to change for their needs and expectations to be met?
Life Taxation Workshop 2013
Commercial Allocation of income and profit
E02: Aggregation of market risk capital and credit risk capital assessments
I-E Calculation
Life Office tax overview
Matters of current interest: Tax impact on ICA+/Solvency II, Embedded Value and other topics
Shareholder Tax Calculation
Tax modelling and planning
Momentum 2013
A01 The Future of UK Pensions
A03: Telematics and the UK’s MostCompetitive Market: Is New Technology Always a Good Thing?
A05: The Many Costs of Capital
B03: GI Debate
B04: Investment Debate
C04: Volatility and Equity Tail Risk Hedging for Pensions Funds
C05: Resource Constraints:Sharing a Finite World
D05: Actuaries as Financial Engineers
Masterclass 1A: My Brilliant Career
Masterclass 1B: Gaining the Essential Buy-in from Clients
Masterclass 2A: Increasing Your Oomph Factor
Masterclass 2B: Values - An Invaluable Tool
Plenary 2: The Future of Actuarial Science
Plenary 4 All Abroad?
Momentum 2013
A02: Consequences of Picking the Wrong Model
A04: The Quest for Yield and Other Stories from a Life Insurer’s Asset Portfolio
Masterclass 2D: Why Does Client Management Matter?
Mortality and Longevity seminar 2013
Beyond the 2011 census – understanding oldest old mortality
Breakthroughs in genetic medicine and the implications for degenerative diseases
Continuous Mortality Investigation
Extreme trend reversal, model risk and other challenges in modelling future
New insights from the Longevity Science Advisory Panel
Potential and hurdles for longevity transfer in non-UK markets
Rising to the challenge of generating longevity stresses
Understanding the components of longevity risk
Mortality Thought Leadership Seminar Series: Socioeconomic Inequalities in Mortality and Longevity
Life Course Influences on Old-age Longevity: Drivers of Socioeconomic Differences
On the Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-economic Mortality Differentials: An Application to Deprivation and Mortality in England
Taking Action on the Social Determinants of Health
NAG
Numerical software & tools for the actuarial community
Rehabilitating Correlations, Avoiding, Inversion, and Extracting Roots
Open Forum: Insurance accounting - a new era II?
Accounting proposals for insurance contracts, Preliminary views on Exposure Draft and implications
Open Forum: Distributional Effect of Asset Purchases
Open Forum: Distributional Effect of Asset Purchases
Open Forum: General Insurance research topics – Impact of telematics for insurance and UK flood insurance
Rob Jarvis and Patrick Bradley
Open Forum: Recovery and Resolution Planning
Recovery and Resolution Planning
Pensions - the End Game
Buyout
Buyout, Colin Parnell
Cash studies
De-risking
Debt
GMP equalisation and conversion
Governance
Legal issues
Pensions and the Law
GMP Conversion
Legal Aspects of Longevity Risk Transfers
Professional Negligence
The Threat of Company Insolvency
Pensions Conference 2013
A01 Alternative Indexation of Equities - Market Cap or Monkey?
A02 The radically changing role of the actuary in scheme funding negotiations
A03 Innovative solutions to age old problems
A04 Macroeconomics of pensions funds
A05 Buy-ins and buyouts: What should really matter to pension schemes?
B01 DC investment options
B02 Update on the European Commission Review of the IORP Directive
B03 Governance – A Contrarian View?
B04 Changed prospects for economic growth and long term actuarial assumptions
B05 Legal developments: where are we now?
C01 Fiduciary management - pros and cons, Barbara Saunders
C01 Fiduciary management - pros and cons, Carl Hitchman
C02 Gaining the essential buy-in from clients
C03 Another objective for the Regulator – what will that mean for actuaries?
C05 Recent practical experiences of de-risking
D01 Asset backed funding: is it a legal and appropriate investment?
D02: LDI nine years on
D03 Information overload – setting mortality assumptions in the modern era
D04 Actuaries as 'financial engineers', Derek Cribb
D04 Actuaries as 'financial engineers': a strategic analysis
D05 Sleepwalking into retirement – why DC desperately needs actuaries
E01 Lehman Bros -a lesson on financial support directions
E02 Back to the future - what yesterday can tell us about tomorrow's pensions
E04 Pension infrastructure platform
Plenary 2: Healthy life expectancy and the quality of life in old age
Plenary 3: Auto-enrolment and how the regime in the UK compares to international systems
Plenary 4: The global economic outlook
Practical guidance for volunteers - on issues relating to competition law
Practical guidance for volunteers - on issues relating to competition law
Risk and Investment Conference 2013
A2: So how do you do all this risk appitite stuff for a with-profits fund?
A3: Challenges in optimising risk and return for insurers in a low Interest rate environment
A4: A New Approach to Risk-Neutral Scenarios
B1: Conduct risk: what is it and what is your role in managing it?
B2: Draw boundaries between the risk function and internal audit
B4: How to blend 'qualitative' with 'quantitative': global macro economic themes in strategic asset allocation
B5: An appraisal of acquiring fixed income assets on a forward basis
C1: Approximations, estimates and errors
C2: Reverse Stress Testing: A Case Study
C3: Role of liquidity in economics, risk and investment
C4: Modelling defaultable sovereign debt
C5: Actuaries as financial engineers: a stratigic analysis
D1: Risk Reporting
D2: Plural rationality - how it explains regulators management and stratagy of insurers
E1: Model risk and governance
E3: A unique look at project actuaries
E4: Financial repression working party
E5: Managing the risk of reputation damage, negligence litigation and misconduct complaints
Plenary 1: Actuarial discipline: a threat or an opportunity?
Plenary 3: The story of the PRA: what kind of a regulator will it be?
Plenary 5: Making Money Safely A Personal View of Risk Management in Non-Financial Corporates, Insurance and Banking
Plenary 6: Designing a risk-led investment strategy at the Pension Protection Fund
Plenary 6: Risk appetite in practice
Scottish Independence Event
Scottish Independence: some questions from the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Sessional Research Event: Financial repression - what does it mean for savers and investors?
Financial repression – what does it mean for savers & investors
Sessional Research Event: Holistic Balance Sheet and Employer Covenant
Sessional Research Event: Holistic Balance Sheet and Employer Covenant: Barrie + Hibbert presentation slides
Sessional Research Event: Holistic Balance Sheet and Employer Covenant: PwC presentation slides
Sessional Research Event: Unintended Consequences Basel III and Solvency II
Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II
Solvency II Seminar: Responsibilities of the Actuarial Function
A Personal View on the Actuarial Function
Actuarial Function
Actuarial Function
Reinsurance Adequacy Opinion
Risk Management
Technical Provisions
Underwriting Review
The Value of ERM: One Day Seminar
ERM: Does it add Value? Three Perspectives
With Profits Business - Coping with Change
Assessing the Need for Structural Change
Managing with-profits business through uncertainty
With-profits - coping with change - 23 January
