Programme

The programme is available below and also available to download here.

Thursday July 22

• 10:30 - 10:45: Registration
• 10:45 - 11:00: Opening Remarks
• 11:00 - 12:30: Session 1
  · Colm FitzGerald, Actuarial Techniques in Banking;
  · Paul Kennedy, The Actuarial Quality Framework
  · Graham H.M. Goddard, Risk categorisation for complex disorders according to
  genotype relative risk and precision in parameter estimates
• 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
• 14:00 - 15:00: Professor Mary Hardy (University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada) Divided by a common language: Communicating applied research in actuarial
  science
• 15:00 - 16:00: Session 2
  · Andrew D Smith, Compound Interest in a Solvency II World
  · Vali Asimit, Optimal Investment for an Insurance Company
• 16:00 - 16:30: Tea & Coffee Break
• 16:30 - 17:30: Professor Andrew Cairns (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) Hedging Longevity Risk
• 18:30: Conference Dinner
  
  

Friday July 23

• 9:00 - 9:40 Graham Finlay (BAS Project Director) Technical Actuarial Standards: From Prescription to Principles
• 9:40 - 10:20 Andrew James (University of Kent) Education/Training - the Balancing Act
• 10:20 - 11:00: Christopher Bailey and Mark Daniels (Towers Watson) The Actuarial Science Degree; Help or Hindrance?
• 11:00 - 11:30: Tea & Coffee Break
• 11:30 - 12:30: Ruth Loseby (The UK Actuarial Profession) The Actuarial Profession: Research update and discussion
• 12:30 - 14:00: Lunch
• 14:00 - 15:00: Charles Cowling (JLT Group) Actuaries and discount rates
• 15:00 – 16:00: Trevor Watkins (The UK Actuarial Profession) Education Update and Discussion
• 16:00 - 16:30:  Tea & Coffee Break, Goodbyes