Program & Papers

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Time	Event Session	Room
MONDAY 11 APRIL - The Global Scene and its Impact on Australia
7.30	Registration Opens
7.30	Communications Breakfast	State Room
8.30	Welcome – Institute President – Barry Rafe
9.00	Plenary 1 – International Influences Webcast	Grand Ballroom
	Desmond Smith, Chair, RGA and Chair, Sanlam, South Africa Presentation Audio Seamus Creedon, Consultant, KPMG and Solvency II Project Manager, Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Europeen Presentation Audio Hazel McNeilage Head of Funds Management, Queensland Investment Corporation Presentation Audio Plenary discussion
10.30	Morning Tea	L3 - Foyer
11.00	Concurrent 1
1a	Long Term Care : What Can We Learn From the International Experience? Bridget Browne, Romain Bridet Presentation Audio	State Room
1b	Financial Wellbeing, Actions and Concerns - Preliminary Findings From a Survey of Elderly Australians Tim Higgins Paper Presentation Audio	Room 2
1c	Comparison of Basel III Regulatory Regimes between, UK, Australia and Canada Wendy Yip, Mark Young Presentation Audio	Room 3
1d	Securitise This: The Structuring, Pricing and Risk Management Applications of Insurance Securitisations Jonathan Tindall Paper Presentation Audio	Room 4
1e	The Regulation of Retail Investors Eric Ranson Paper Presentation Audio	Room 5
1f	Replicating Portfolios & Risk Management – An Australian Perspective Joshua Corrigan, Charles Qin Presentation Audio	Room 6
12.00	CHANGE OVER
12.05	Concurrent 2
2a	Risk Appetite - What the CEO and Board Should Be Doing Ian Laughlin Presentation Audio	State Room
2b	FSC-KPMG Experience Investigation Update Hoa Bui, Briallen Cummings	Room 2
2c	A House or a Home? Finding Value in Australian Residential Property Anthony Street Paper Presentation Audio	Room 3
2d	When Too Much is Not Enough: Capital in a Mutual Health Fund Peter Carroll Paper Presentation Audio	Room 4
2e	Women on Boards and in Senior Management Jenny Lyon and Ruth Medd Presentation Audio	Room 5
13.05	LUNCH Cecil Bykerk, President International Association of Actuaries Presentation	Grand Ballroom
14.30	Concurrent 3
3a	Beyond Financial Institutions: How Well Do Actuaries Understand Company’s Risk Concerns? Jenny Dean, Saffron Sweeney Presentation Audio	State Room
3b	Manufacturing Inflation Risk Protection Josh Corrigan Paper	Room 2
3c	Strategic Disinformation Shauna Ferris Presentation Audio	Room 3
3d	Reducing Retirement Income Costs Sean McGing Presentation Paper Audio	Room 4
3e	Health Financial Condition Reports – The First Five Years Raewin Davies, Adam Jupp Presentation Audio	Room 5
3f	PANEL DISCUSSION - Beyond the benchmark: Perspectives on Adding Value to the Investment Process Michael O'Neill, Geoff Warren, Andrew Francis Audio	Room 6
15.30	Afternoon Tea	L3 - Foyer
16.00	Plenary 2 - Challenges and Opportunities for Australia Webcast	Grand Ballroom
	Pauline Blight-Johnston, Managing Director, RGA Australia Presentation Audio Curt Zuber, Group Treasurer, Westpac Banking Corporation Audio John Maroney, Principal Administrator, International Association of Insurance Supervisors Audio Plenary discussion
17.30	Community Happy Hour - Free night
TUESDAY 12 APRIL - How Australian Actuaries Are Making a Difference
7.30	Registration Opens	L3 - Foyer
7.30	Communications Breakfast Audio	State Room
8.30	Conventions Highlights – The Morning After	Grand Ballroom
8.45	Plenary 3 - Interaction with Social Issues Webcast
	Bernard Salt, Partner, KPMG. Audio Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre Presentation Audio Plenary discussion Webcast	Grand Ballroom
10.15	Morning Tea	L3 – Foyer
10.45	Concurrent 4
4a	Global Developments in the Modelling and Application of Risk For Life Companies Peter Larsen, Mike Callan, Michael Stumbles Presentation Audio	State Room
4b	New Treasury Stochastic Modelling of Australian Retirement Incomes Brendan Price, Albert Suryadi Paper Presentation Audio	Room 2
4c	The Likely Cost of Catastrophic Medical Injuries Under a National Disability Insurance Scheme Jonathan Cohen, Linda Satchwell, Adrian Gould Presentation Audio	Room 3
4d	Seven Up: The Appointed Actuary in Australian Health Insurance Seven Years On Stuart Rodger Paper Presentation Audio	Room 4
4e	Evaluation of Public Policy Initiatives Geoff Dunsford Paper Presentation Audio	Room 5
4f	Modelling Dependence in Insurance Claims Processes with Lévy Copulas Luke Cassar, Benjamin Avanzi, Bernard Wong Paper Presentation Audio	Room 6
11.45	CHANGE OVER
11.50	Concurrent 5
5a	Risk Margins: An Education Session Risk Margins Task Force Paper/Presentation Presentation Audio	State Room
5b	Growing Pains: Selection Effects in Private Health Insurance Andrew Gale Paper Presentation Audio	Room 2
5c	FCRs in Super - What is the Customer Value Proposition? Darren Wickham Presentaion	Room 3
5d	Discussions of Issues Arising in Singapore Insured Lives’ Experience Study Andrew Linfoot Presentation Audio	Room 4
5e	Modelling Mortality with a Bayesian Vector Autoregression Carolyn Njenga, Michael Sherris Paper Presentation Audio	Room 5
5f	An Economic Model to Evaluate Extreme Events for Lenders’ Mortgage Insurers Elaine Collins, Angela Tong Presentation Audio	Room 6
12.50	Lunch John Trowbridge, Chair, Natural Disaster Insurance Review Presentation	Grand Ballroom
14.20	Concurrent 6
6a	Actuaries and Non-financial Business Risks: Operational, Project and Strategic Risk Adrian Johnstone, Paul Lindeberg Paper Presentation Audio	State Room
6b	Sustainable Full Retirement Age Policies in an Aging Society: The Impact of Uncertain Longevity Increases on Retirement Age Remaining Life Expectancy at Retirement and Pension Liabilities Ralph Stevens Paper Presentation Audio	Room 2
6c	Contemporary Issues in Private Health Insurance Andrew Gale, Ben Ooi, David Watson (Health Practice Committee) Presentation Audio	Room 3
6d	Managing Systematic Mortality Risk with Group Self Pooling and Annuitization Schemes Mike Sherris, Chao Qiao Paper Presentation Audio	Room 4
6e	Essence of Actuary: Skills + Practices + Capabilities = Value Jules Gribble Presentation Audio	Room 5
6f	The involvement of actuaries in General Insurance – Past, Present and Future Daniel Smith, Donna Walker Paper Presentation Audio	Room 6
15.20	Afternoon Tea	L3 – Foyer
15.50	Plenary 4 - Influence in the Public Space	Grand Ballroom
	Melinda Howes, CEO, Institute of Actuaries of Australia Peter Broadhead, First Assistant Secretary, The Health Reform Transition Office, Department of Health & Ageing Andrew Boal, Chair, SEBPC and Managing Director Australia, Towers Watson Peter McCarthy, Chair, GIPC and Partner Ernst & Young Yolanda Beattie, General Manager, Honner Media Kent Griffin, Chair, RMPC and Partner Ernst & Young Audio Webcast
19.00	Gala Dinner (PwC Masked Ball)	Sydney Town Hall
WEDNESDAY 13 APRIL - The Evolution of Actuarial Work in Australia
8.00	Registration Opens	L3 – Foyer
8.30	Concurrent 7
7a	Unlocking the Equity in Your Home: Just How Risky Is It? Shauna Ferris Presentation	State Room
7b	Heterogeneity of Australian Population Mortality and Implications for a Viable Life Annuity Market Mike Sherris, Shu Su Paper Presentation Audio	Room 2
7c	Using Data and Analytics to Drive Strategy Outside of Traditional Fields Adam Driussi Presentation Audio	Room 3
7d	Risk Equalisation 2020 – Is the Current System Sustainable? Jamie Reid Paper Presentation Audio	Room 4
7e	Towards a Carbon Neutral Actuarial Profession Alan Greenfield, Martin Fry Paper Presentation Audio	Room 5
7f	Valuing Employee Share Options Using the Exercise Multiple Approach and Binary P-options Tim Kyng Presentation Audio	Room 6
9.30	CHANGE OVER
9.35	Concurrent 8
8a	Approaches to Setting Capital for Investment Guarantees John Nicholls, Ismar Tuzovic Presentation Audio	State Room
8b	The Man Who Ate Himself - Why Overpopulation and Overuse of Resources Will Lead to Humanity's Demise Anthony Vial Paper Presentation Audio	Room 2
8c	What is the Appropriate Price for a Community Rated Product? A Case Study of Private Health Insurance in Australia Karl Niemann Paper Presentation Audio	Room 3
8d	Managing Liquidity in Superannuation Jules Gribble, Cary Helenius Presentation Audio Paper	Room 4
8e	Session cancelled
8f	Risk Appetite - Practical Implementation Issues Kent Griffin Presentation Audio	Room 6
10.35	Morning Tea	L3 – Foyer
11.00	Plenary 5 - So, How Far Can Actuaries Go? Webcast
	Mike Barker, Director, MetLife Audio Zac Roberts, Director, SouthPeak Investment Management Presentation Audio Tony Coleman, Lonergan Edwards & Associates Presentation Audio Kirsten Armstrong, Director, Three Rivers Audio Adam Driussi, Director, Quantium Presentation Audio Plenary discussion	Grand Ballroom
13.00	Lunch
14.00	Convention Close

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