Sunday 8 May 2005
Pre-Dinner Drinks
Welcome Dinner
Catherine Baldwin
Guest Speaker
John Tanzer
Monday 9 May 2005
Welcome
Adam Spencer
Andrew C Gale
Plenary 1
Corporate Sustainability
Chris Caton, Michael Wilkins, Steve Taylor-Gooby
Chair and Presenter Briefing
Concurrent 1
Resilience Reserve Task Taskforce Draft Recommendation
Anthony Ahser, Colin Grenfell, Anton Kapel, Martin Piano, Ken Ragell, Michael Sherris, Jame Wang
Presentation Paper
A Practitioner's Guide to the Advanced Measurement Approach to Operational Risk Under Base III
What Price Health? Private Health Insurance Product Pricing and Coast Pressures
Andrew Gale
Presentation Paper
Australian Investment Performance 1960-2005 (and Investment Assumptions for Stochastic Models)
Colin Grenfell
Presentation Paper
A Generalised Theory of Investment Risk With Application to Absolute Return Funds,
Asset Allocation and Sustainability of Defined Benefits Fund
Lez Balzer, Luck Hartmann
Paper
Concurrent 2
Solvency Measurement and Capital Management for Insurance
Helen Martin, David Rush
Presentation
Evaluating Wealth Management Businesses – An Investor's Perspective
Mark Stewart, Anton Kapel
Presentation Paper
Contemporary Issues – Risk Management
Presentation
Educating Professionals – Can You Teach Judgment?
Modelling Risk – Right Plan + Wrong Doing = Wrong Answer
Jules Gribble, Sean McGing
Presentation Paper
Concurrent 3
Managing an Australian Life Insurance/Wealth Manager in an IFRS Enviroment
Caroline Bennet, Scott Mitchell
Presentation Paper
Don't Breath the Air – US Development in Absolutos and Silica
Raewin Davis, Jack Jiang, Rosi Winn
Presentation
Initial Finding of Taskforce on the Positioning of the Actuarial Profession in Banking, Finance and Investments
Greg Vaughan, Alex Stitt
Presentation
Valuing Ecosystem Goods and Services
Naomi Edwards, Jill Green
Presentation Paper
Substandard Lives / Experience Investigations, Genetics and Other Issues Update from LRIC
Leonie Tickle
Presentation
Tournament of the Minds
Adam Spencer
Tuesday 10 May 2005
Convention Highlights
Adam Spencer
Plenary 2
Sustainable Futures
Barney Foran, Ronnie Lim, Paul Gilding
Concurrent 4
The Growing Need for Effective Operational Risk Management for Wealth Management Companies
Robert Daly, Dion Russelll
Presentation Paper
Contemporary Issues in Superannuation Choice of Fund and Fee Disclose Comparing Apples to Oranges
Steve Schubert, Andrew Boal, Phil Collins, Diane Somerville
Presentation
Environmental Finance – The Risk of Environmental Markets and Opportunities for Actuaries
Elayne Grace, Stewart McCarthy
Presentation Paper
Extending the Lee-Carter Method of Mortality Projection & Application to Australian Mortality Data
Piet de Jong, Leonie Tickle
Presentation Paper
Contemporary Issues – Private Health Insurance
Andrew Gale, Ben Ooi, David Watson
Presentation
New Development in Part III Actuarial Education – An Update
Helen Martin, David Service
Presentation
Concurrent 5
Life Insurance Business – Impact of IFRS and Changes to LIASB Standards
A New Look at Valuation and the Actuarial Profession
Aruna Pavithran
Presentation Paper
Financial Condition Reports in General Insurance – The Latest Steps
Elaine Collins
Presentation
A Long Term Stochastic Asset Model for Actuarial Use
Felix Sun, David Service
Presentation Paper
New Zealand – A Review of Current Topical Issues
Richard Geisler, Peter Davies
Presentation Paper
The Major Actuarial Challenges – A Partly Idiosyncratic View
Anthony Asher
Presentation Paper
Concurrent 6
IFRS – A Prospective View
Tony Coleman, Greg Martin
Presentation
Retirement Income Policy Taskforce Report – Adequacy and Integration Issues
Steve Schubert, Cathy Nance
Presentation
Applying the Actuarial Control Cycle in Private Health Insurance
Ben Ooi
Presentation Paper
Insurance Application of Fuzzy Logic
Arnold F. Shapiro
Presentation Paper
Revision of PS500 – Continuing Professional Development, A Discussion Paper
The Eight Habits of Highly Effective Actuaries
Andrew Brown
Presentation Paper
Gala Dinner
Wednesday 11 May 2005
Concurrent 7
The Code of Conduct Review – Issues, Consideration and Direction
Tim Jenkins
Presentation Paper
Non-Insurance Valuation in Practice
Martin Hall
Presentation Paper
Contemporary Issues – General Insurance
Alan Smee
Presentation
The Future, According to (The Oracle) Actuaries...
Don Johnstone, James Fitzpatrick, Senthooran Nagaeajan, Siddharth Parameswaran,
Jill Green, Erasus Gerigk
Paper
Retirement Income Policy Taskforce Report Intergenerational Issues
IGTF
Presentation
The Evolving Role of the Actuary in Health Insurance
Peter Lurie
Presentation Paper
Concurrent 8
Risk Management and Financial Condition Reporting for General Insurance
Steve Somogyi,
Robert Thomson
Presentation
The End of the Transition Period for Life Insurance Tax
Gamille Lagunzad, Paul Swinhoe
Paper
Using Actuarial Techniques to Model Media Effectiveness
Adam Driussi
Presentation Paper
Capital Management and Frictional Costs in Insurance
Victor Chandra, Michael Sherris
Presentation Paper
Hurdling or Learning? An Evaluation of the Qualification Process for Actuaries in Australia
John Shepherd
Paper
Convention Highlights
Adam Spencer
Plenary 3
Sustainability of the Profession
Chris White, Ian Harrison, Tom Fenton, Jennifer Lang
Closing Remarks
Andrew C Gale, Institute President