Actuarial Research Centre (ARC)

The ARC is the IFoA’s global network of researchers from around the world. A core part of the ARC is the delivery of industry-relevant research. View some of the online material arising from ARC research below. All videos are free to watch and eligible for CPD.

2018
ARC Webinar Series 2018: Behavioural Aspects of Institutional Investment Decision-Making Thursday 4 October 2018 This webinar explores the decision-making of institutional investors, in particular insurers and pension schemes, and the biases that may affect their investment decisions. Sponsored by Aon and Invesco Speakers: Professor Peter Ayton (City, University of London) and Dr Iain Clacher (University of Leeds).
ARC Webinar Series 2018: Minimising Longevity and Investment Risk while Optimising Future Pension Plans Wednesday 3 October 2018 This webinar covers the development of pension product designs that keep customers' needs at the forefront, with a real income in retirement that minimises costs for the customer. Speakers: Dr Catherine Donnelly (Heriot Watt University).
ARC Webinar Series 2018: Modelling, Measurement and Management of Longevity and Morbidity Risk Tuesday 2 October 2018 This webinar is about developing a new generation of mortality and morbidity models, with a specific focus on the drivers for mortality. Speakers: Dr Torsten Kleinow (Heriot- Watt University) and Dr George Streftaris (Heriot-Watt University)
2018 ARC Webinar Series: Use of Big Health and Actuarial Data for understanding Longevity and Morbidity Monday 17 September 2018 In this webinar new statistical and actuarial methods in the use of Big Data are discussed, in the context of health and wider applications. Speakers: Professor Elena Kulinskaya (University of East Anglia) and Co-Investigator Nigel Wright (Aviva).
ARC Sessional Reseach Event: How Medical Advances and Health Interventions Will Shape Future Longevity Monday 25 June 2018 In this ARC sessional Professor Elena Kulinskaya will discuss her paper How Medical Advances and Health Interventions Will Shape Future Longevity which shows how estimated mortality hazards can be translated to hypothetical changes in life expectancies at the individual and population levels.
ARC Sessional Research Event:Self-selection and Risk Sharing in a Modern World of Life-Long Annuities Monday 14 May 2018 In this ARC sessional Professor Jens Perch Nielsen and his co-authors (from Cass Business School) find new solutions to three of the most current and challenging problems in pension research.
ARC Sessional Research Event: Still Living with Mortality: The Longevity Risk Transfer Market after One Decade 29 January 2018 This paper updates Living with Mortality written more than a decade ago. It describes how the longevity risk transfer market has developed over the intervening period, and, in particular, how insurance-based solutions – buy-outs, buy-ins and longevity insurance – triumphed over the capital markets solutions that were expected to dominate at the time.

2017 ARC Webinar Series
Minimising Longevity and Investment Risk while optimising Future Pension Plans 14 June 2017 This webinar is part of a series to showcase three large research programmes currently running through the ARC, which seeks to address some of the significant challenges in actuarial science.
Use of Big Health and Actuarial Data for understanding Longevity and Morbidity 13 June 2017 From this webinar you will learn about the objectives of this research programme and some of the early developments since its commencement in autumn 2016. Speakers: Professor Elena Kulinskaya (University of East Anglia) – Principal Investigator for the research programme Nigel Wright (Aviva) Facilitator: Professor Andrew Cairns (Director of the Actuarial Research Centre)
Modelling, Measurement and Management of Longevity and Morbidity Risk 17 May 2017 Developing a new generation of mortality and morbidity models, with a specific focus on the drivers for mortality. Speaker: Professor Andrew Cairns, Heriot-Watt University

2017 ARC Webinar Series

Minimising Longevity and Investment Risk while optimising Future Pension Plans 14 June 2017
This webinar is part of a series to showcase three large research programmes currently running through the ARC, which seeks to address some of the significant challenges in actuarial science.

Use of Big Health and Actuarial Data for understanding Longevity and Morbidity 13 June 2017
From this webinar you will learn about the objectives of this research programme and some of the early developments since its commencement in autumn 2016.

Speakers:
Professor Elena Kulinskaya (University of East Anglia) – Principal Investigator for the research programme
Nigel Wright (Aviva)

Facilitator:
Professor Andrew Cairns (Director of the Actuarial Research Centre)

Modelling, Measurement and Management of Longevity and Morbidity Risk 17 May 2017
Developing a new generation of mortality and morbidity models, with a specific focus on the drivers for mortality.
Speaker: Professor Andrew Cairns, Heriot-Watt University

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