Sunday 19 April 2009
Pre-Dinner Drinks
PWC Welcome Dinner
John Maroney, Institute CEO
Monday 20 April
Communication Breakfast
Robert Morand
Welcome
Trevor Thompson, Institute President
Peter Thompson, Facilitator
Plenary 1
Global Economic Shift
Bob Jaeger Audio
Ron Russell Presentation Audio
Concurrent 1
Pricing Group Business During an Economic Downturn
Francis Burgess, Andrew Paabo
Superannuation Funds – Managing Liquidity Risk in a Volatile World
Melinda Howes
Presentation Audio
Longevity Derivatives – Illustrating a “New” Approach to Investing
Zac Roberts
Presentation Paper Audio
The Appointed Actuary in General Insurance – A Stakeholder Assessment of the Regime GIPC
Chris Latham
Presentation Audio
Solvency II – Latest Developments
Craig McCulloch
Presentation Audio
Can You Put A Price on Health? The Valuation of Health Insurers
Jamie Reid, Ian Burningham
Paper Audio
Concurrent 2
Industry Experience Studies
Hoa Bui, Briallen Cummings, Agnes Wong
Audio
The Retirement Village Industry – Opportunities for Actuaries Improvement
Dennis Barton
Presentation Paper Audio
A General Insurance Perspective on the Use and Communication of ERM
Paul Goswamy, Chatherine Dube
Presentation Audio
How to Destabilise the Financial System
Shauna Ferris
Presentation Paper Audio
Future Direction of the Australian Health Financing System
Stuart Rodger, Ignatius Li
Audio
Dealing with Excessive Concentration to Stocks in Small Markets
Chris Condon
Presentation Paper Audio
Guest Speaker
Corporations & Financial Services
Bernie Rippol, MP Chair, PJC
Audio
Concurrent 3
Future Longevity Research
LIWPC (James Collier)
Presentation Paper Audio
The Interaction of Prudential Capital Requirements Across Banking and Insurance
Elaine Collins, Lucy Simpson
Presentation Audio
Financial Risk Management: Practical Methods to Improve Return on Capital
Zac Roberts, John Evans
Presentation Paper Audio
Rebalancing Revisited
Syd Bone, Andrew Goddard
Presentation Audio
Salary Linked Home Finance – Reducing Interest Rate, Inflation and Idiosyncratic Salary Risks
Anthony Asher
Presentation Paper Audio
Professional Guidance for Health Insurance Actuaries
Peter Lurie, Andrew Gale
Presentation Audio
Plenary 2
Changing Social Dynamics
Garry Muriwai Audio
Richard Denniss Presentation Audio
Tuesday 21 April 2009
Communications Breakfast
Robert Morand
Convention Highlights
Peter Thompson
Plenary 3
Digging for Value
Martijn Wilder Presentation Audio
Bruce Rigby Presentation Audio
Concurrent 4
The Henry/Harmer Retirement Incomes and Pension Review Outcomes
Retirement Incomes Taskforce (Catherine Nance)
Audio
Economic Capital – Managing Risk in Different Financial Services Companies
Jennifer Lang
Presentation
Quantifying and Managing a Risk Culture
Jules Gribble, David Goodsall
Presentation Paper Audio
Hard to Insure Flood Risks – Possible Funding Solutions
GIPC (David Whittle)
Presentation Paper Audio
Going Carbon Neutral – a Practical Business Perspective
Alan Greenfield
Actuarial Consideration of the AASB1023 Liability Adequacy Test in Private Health Insurance
Peter Lurie, Adam Jupp
Presentation Audio
Concurrent 5
Learning to Live with Longevity – Retirement Spending and Investment Implications
Nick Callil
Presentation Audio
ERM Practices: A Comparison of Approaches
Anton Kapel, Pat McConnell
Presentation Paper Audio
The Australian Investment Management Industry – Global Gold Standard, or Fool's Gold?
Wade Tubman, Annie Liao
Presentation Audio
Insights into Comprehensive Motor Rating in Australia
Nelson Henwood, Colin Brigstock
Presentation Paper Audio
Going for Research Gold: The Role and Potential of Research in The Institute and The Profession
Research Committee of Council (Chris Latham)
Presentation Audio
Pennies from Heaven – Health Insurance
Andrew Gale
Paper Audio
Guest Speaker
Senator the Hon, Nick Sherry
Audio
Concurrent 6
No-One is Average – The Presentation of Retirement Risks
Richard Starkey
Presentation Audio
ERM – Capturing the Upside
Brett Riley
Presentation Paper Audio
Art or Science? Industry Approaches to Tax in Unit Pricing
Michael Dermody
Presentation Audio
Walking Through Moral Hazard Minefields
Brent Walker
Presetation Audio
Unisuper's Approach to Risk Budgeting
David Schneider, Dennis Sams
Presentation Paper Audio
A Blueprint for an Actuarial Education
John Shepherd
Presentation Audio
Concurrent 7
A Modern Approach to Group Risk Pricing and Credibility
Hakop Pashayan
Presentation Paper Audio
The Funding of Closed Defined Benefit Schemes
Adam Butt
Presentation Paper Audio
Commonwealth's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme White Paper, and What it Means
Peter Eben
Presentation Audio
Bayesian Approach for Prediction Error in Chain-Ladder Claims Reserving
Ji Yao
The Higher Education Loan Programme (HELP/HECS) – A Microsimulation Model of Individual Repayment Prospects
Michael O'Neill
Presentation Paper
Equity Driven Productivity – An Actuarial Business Model
Eric Ranson
Presentation Paper Audio
Plenary 4
At the Coal Face
Retail Banking – A Protected Species!
Mark Lawrence
Presentation Audio
Global Insurance – The Future
Steve Taylor-Gooby
Presentation Audio
Pre-Dinner Drinks
KPMG Gala Dinner
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Concurrent 8
Longevity and Retirement Incomes
Paul Swinhoe, Eric McNamara
Presentation Audio
GFC: APRA Activities
Ramani Venkatramani
Presentation Audio
Your Life Capital – An Actuarial Perspective on Your Investment in Life
Ian Pollard
Presentation Paper Audio
Mapping Investment Opportunities to Financial Needs
Mark Berry
Presentation Audio
Update From the Product Rationalisation Taskforce
Rob Desoisa
Presentation Audio
Simple Way to Reduce Driving Related Harms and Increase Fairness
Colin Priest, Roger Gobler
Presentation Audio
Concurrent 9
Personality Types of Actuaries and Implications for Leadership and Service
Andrew Gale, Leonie Tickle
Paper Audio
Stochastic Solvency Testing in Life Insurance
Genevieve Hayes
Presentation Paper Audio
Fair Value Accounting – Is “Fair Value” Really Fair?
Anton Kapel, John Nicholls
Presentation
Some Further Thoughts on Systemic Risk – and How to Control it
Mike Barker
Presentation Paper Audio
Contemporary Issues in Private Health Insurance
Health Practice Committee (David Watson, Andrew Gale & Ben Ooi)
Audio
Report from the Dependency Working Party
General Insurance Practice Committee (Piet de Jong)
Audio
Convention Highlights
Peter Thompson
Plenary 5
Professional Leadership
Making a Difference Through Increased Personal Effectiveness
Clarence Da Gama Pinto Presentation Audio Presentation
Professions and the Regulator
John Trowbridge
Audio
Starring into the Abyss
Alden Toevs
Audio
Commonwealth Bank Panel Discussion
The Crisis – How Do Professionals Stack Up?
Audio
Closing Remarks
Trevor Thompson, Institute President
Guest Speaker
ANOP Designations
Ron Cameron
Audio