| Time | Event/Session | Room |
| Sunday 7 November |
| 15.00 | Registration - 2hrs | Hotel Foyer |
| 18.30 | Pre Dinner Drinks | Poolside Lawns |
| 18.30pm | Welcome Dinner
Melinda Howes, CEO, Institute of Actuaries of Australia | Poolside Lawns |
Monday 8 November |
| 7.30am | Registration Opens | Mirage Grand Terrace |
| 8.30am | Welcome
Bozenna Hinton, President, Institute of Actuaries of Australia
AUDIO
| Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| Plenary 1- Keynote Address and Market Update |
| 8.40am | Andrew Smith, Chair
AUDIO | |
| Keynote Address, Ian Laughlin, APRA
PRESENTATION
WEBCAST | |
| Market Update, Siddharth Parameswaran, JP Morgan Securities Australia
PRESENTATION
AUDIO
WEBCAST | |
| 10.00 | Morning Tea | Mirage Grand Terrace |
| 10.30 | Concurrent 1 | |
| 1.a | Using Internal Capital Models to Better Articulate Risk Appetite and Measure Risk Tolerance
Karl Marshall
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 | |
| 1.b | Using Machine Learning Methods to Enhance Predictive Models Nelson Henwood
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 1.c | A Statistical Basis for Claims Experience Monitoring
Greg Taylor
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 1.d | Thoughts on Large and Unusual Claims
Felix Tang, Laurel Kong
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 | |
| 11.10 | CHANGE OVER | |
| 11.15 | Concurrent 2 | |
| 2.a | Inflation Risk in General Insurance
John DeRavin, Mike Fowlds
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 2.b | Convex Optimisation: A New Approach to Common
Challenges in Premium Rating
Dimitri Semenovich, Ian Heppell
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 2.c | Legal and Medical Providers: Does the Choice Impact Claims Outcomes in Bodily Injury Claims?
Aaron Cutter and Darren Robb
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 2.d | Insurance Risk Study – Modeling the Global Market
David Maneval
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 11.55 | CHANGE OVER | |
| 12.00 | Concurrent 3 | |
| 3.a | Delivering Transparency and Flexibility in Pricing: The Buzz Insurance
Keith Forster
Ian Frew
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 3.b | Worker to Worker Claims in Liability Portfolios
Yan Zhao, Benoit Laganiere
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 3.c | Achieving Finality – The Commutation Process
Lucy Simpson, Alexander Kwa
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 3.d | Stochastic Reserving with Bayesian Models
Francis Beens
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 12.40pm | Lunch | Terraces Restaurant |
| 13.40 | Concurrent 4 | |
| 4.a | Premium, Claims and Profit – A Class by Class Analysis of the Australian General Insurance Market
Estelle Pearson
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 4.b | Reinsurance Efficiency and Economic Value Added
David Maneval
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 4.c | Is Compensation “Bad for Health”? A Systematic Meta-Review
Natalie Spearing
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 4.d | An Overview of Consumer Credit Insurance
Kevin Gomes, Marcus Arena
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 14.20 | CHANGE OVER | |
| 14.25 | Concurrent 5 | |
| 5.a | Understanding the Impact of New Entrants on the Australian General Insurance Market
Adam Driussi, Mitchell Prevett | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 5.b | Solvency II: One-year and Ultimate Year Risk Horizons, Technical Provisions (TP) and Market Value Margins (MVM) for Long Tail LOBs
David Odell
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 5.c | Home Warranty Insurance – Taming the Ups and Downs of the Building Cycle
Peter Hardy, Ben Knight
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 5.d | Bootstrap Modeling: Beyond the Basics
Mark Shapland
PAPER; EXCEL FILES
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| Plenary 2 – Pathways to Market |
| 15.35 | Warrick Gard, Chair
Vivek Bhatia, Wesfarmers General Insurance
Anthony Day, Suncorp
Simon Lindsay, Progressive Direct
Panel Discussion
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION
AUDIO
WEBCAST | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 17.10 | SESSION CLOSES | |
| 18.30 | Pre Dinner Drinks | Seaworld |
| 19.00 | Seaworld Dinner | |
| Tuesday 9 November |
| 07.30 | Registration Opens | Mirage Grand Terrace |
| Plenary 3 – Risk and Reward |
| 08.30 | Bruce Lambert, Chair
What ERM Means in the GI Space
Dan Tess, Wesfarmers Insurance
Jason Brown, QBE Australia
Keith Tomkins, Zurich Australia
Panel Discussion
Actuaries Working in Different Fields
Adam Driussi, Quantium
Rick Shaw, Consulting Actuary
Joyce Tong, CITI
Panel Discussion
PRESENTATION
CHART
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION
AUDIO
WEBCAST PT1
WEBCAST PT2 | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 10.05 | Morning Tea | Mirage Grand Terrace |
| 10.35 | Concurrent 6 | |
| 6.a | Leveraging Competitive Advantage through Pricing, Marketing and Product Design
David Isaacs
PRESENTATION
AUDIO
| Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 6.b | Enterprise Risk Management and the Actuarial Profession in General Insurance
Gloria Yu, Melinda Howes
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 6.c | Public Liability Personal Injury Claims – An Investigation of Post Tort-Reform Trends by Head of Damage
Adam Searle, John Barker, Andrew Cohen
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 6.d | Implications from the Annual JP Morgan Deloitte GI Industry Surveys
Elaine Collins, Catherine Dube
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 11.15 | CHANGE OVER | |
| 11.20 | Concurrent 7 | |
| 7.a | Pricing When Only the Customer Can See
Yusuf Cakan, Matthew Loh, Siddharth Parameswaran
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 7.b | Risk Margin Monitoring
Julie Sims
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 7.c | International Updates
Lisa Simpson, Rod Balding
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 7.d | Enterprise Emerging Risk Management
Daniel Smith, Andy White
PAPER
PRESENTATION
VIDEO
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 12.00 | CHANGE OVER | |
| 12.05 | Concurrent 8 | |
| 8.a | What Can We Learn From Capital and Risk Trends in the Noughties?
David Whittle, Victoria Tidmas
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 8.b | Ratemaking Working Party
Peter McCarthy
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 8.c | Accounting Standards Update
Bob Buchanan
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 8.d | A Testing for Moral Hazard Survey versus Claims Data
David Rowell
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 12.45 | LUNCH | Terraces Restaurant |
| 12.45 | Free Afternoon/Optional Activities | |
| 19.00 | Pre Dinner Drinks
| Movieworld |
| 19.30 | Movieworld Gala Dinner Dress – Rock n' Roll | |
| Wednesday 10 November |
| 09.00 | Registration Opens | Mirage Grand Terrace |
| 09.30 | Concurrent 9 | |
| 9.a | Approach to Pricing Natural Perils
Ada Lui, David McNab
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 9.b | Injury Compensation and Health Outcomes: Concepts and their Measurement
Natalie Spearing
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 9.c | Turning the Spotlight on Peer Review
Samantha Fuller, Win Li Toh
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 9.d | The Rise and Rise of Hybrid Modeling
Hugh Miller
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 10.10 | CHANGE OVER | |
| 10.15 | Concurrent 10 | |
| 10.a | Natural Catastrophes in Australia: Issues of Funding and Insurance
Chris Latham, Peter McCourt
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 1 & 2 |
| 10.b | Solvency II – How Insurance Companies are Changing in Europe
Matt Hodson
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 4 & 5 |
| 10.c | Towards a Better Inflation Forecast
Hugh Miller
PAPER
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Ballroom 6 |
| 10.d | Post Event Demand Surge
Jaykishan Jeyendran
PRESENTATION
AUDIO | Lagoon Room 1 |
| 10.55 | Morning Tea | Mirage Grand Terrace |
| Plenary 4 – Regulation the Proposed Changes |
| 11.15 | Jefferson Gibbs, Chair
Helen Rowell, APRA
Panel Discussion
Helen Rowell, APRA
Noeline Woof, APRA
Estelle Pearson, Finity
Blair Nicholls, QBE
James Goodchild, Suncorp
Tim Spicer, Ernst & Young
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION
PRESENTATION
AUDIO
WEBCAST | |
| 12.50 | Seminar Close
Bozenna Hinton, President, Institute of Actuaries of Australia | |
| 13.00 | Lunch | Terraces Restaurant |
| 14.00 | Bus departs to the Airport | |