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Programme

Thursday 14 July 2011

10.30 Tea & Coffee, Registration

10.50  Welcome from the Organisers

11.00  Catherine Donnelly (Heriot-Watt University)

When is a defined-benefit pension scheme too small for self-insurance?

11.40  Carmen Boado-Penas (Keele University)

Inheritance Gains in Notional Defined Contributions Accounts (NDCs)

12.20  Jethro Green (Financial Services Authority)

What every actuary should know about philosophy

13.00  Lunch

14.00  Daniel Clarke (University of Oxford)

Insurance Design for Developing Countries

14.40  Oliver Bettis (Great Lakes Reinsurance)

Risks to the economy arising from constrained global energy supply

15.20  Tea & Coffee

15.50  Jens Perch Nielsen (Cass Business School) and Morten Schantz (Festina Lente)

Combining actuarial theory and practice with state-of-the-art IT with case studies in non-life as well as life

16.50  Trevor Llanwarne (Government Actuary)

My experiences in Government and what this might mean for the actuaries of tomorrow, their training and how academics can add value

18.30  Conference Dinner at St Hugh’s College


Friday 15 July 2011

9.00  Colm Fitzgerald (Dublin City University and Paragon Research Ltd)

Risk Intelligence (RQ)

9.40  Andrew Smith (Deloitte) and Ralph Frankland (Aviva)

Statistical estimation: connecting theory to regulation

10.20  Kees van Schaik (University of Manchester)

Valuation with meromorphic Levy processes

11.00  Tea & Coffee

11.30  Kenneth Howse (Oxford Institute of Ageing), Ana Maria Madrigal (Hymans Robertson)

A case study in collaboration: OIA and Club Vita.

12.30  Lunch

13.30  Dalia Khalil (Cairo University)

The Actuarial Science Programme, an Egyptian model of Industry-Academia Partnership

14.10  Tony Hewitt (Imperial College)

Professional and business codes of ethical conduct – their relevance to actuarial education, research and practice

14.50  Panel discussion

The discussion will be on the recently published strategies for the Actuarial Profession, especially  focussing on education and learned society.  The panel will be led by Trevor Watkins (Director of Education) and Ruth Loseby (Research Manager) of the Actuarial Profession.  This is an opportunity to influence how the strategy is taken forward in these areas. 

15.50  Tea & Coffee

Abstracts of invited talks