General Insurance Seminar

Sunday 16 October

Welcome Reception & Dinner

Catherine Baldwin, Institute CEO
Mark Valena, CEO, Medical Defence Association of Victoria
Audio

Monday 17 October

Welcome

Andrew Gale, Institute President

Plenary 1

APRA and Changing Industry
John Laker

The Evolution of Actuaries in General Insurance – Past, Present and Future
Chris Latham
Audio

Professionalism and Actuaries
Chris White

Plenary 2

The Insurance Cycle and the Market

State of the Market – What Comes After the Dizzy Heights?
Siddharth Parameswaran
Presentation Audio

The Insurance Cycle and Market Psychology
Alan Smee, Chris Wallace, Jim Qin
Presentation Paper Audio

Panel Discussion
Audio

Concurrent 1

Don't Breath the Air – US Development in Asbestos and Silica
Amy Bouska
Paper Audio

Beauty Contest for a Line-Up of Models
Ed Polwman, John Yick
Presentation Paper Audio

Applying a Deterministic and Stochastic Approach to LMI, Unexpired Risk Reserving, Stress Testing and Risk Margins
Eamon Kelly, Kent Smith
Presentation Paper Audio

Asbestos – The NSW Government Review into the Legal and Administrative Coast of Dust Diseases Compensation Claims
Neil Donlevy, Jonathon Perkins
Paper Audio

Data Mining Including Short Text Fields
Mark Bentley, Peter Yeates
Audio

Best Practices in Reserving
Glen Barnett
Paper Audio

The Impact of Scheme Design on Financial & Health Outcomes – Building the Advice Base
Sarah Johnson, Anne-Marie Feyer
Presentation Paper

Using Text Mining to Enhance Claims Prediction in Insurance
Inna Kolyshikina
Paper Audio

The Use of Akaike Information Criterion in Finding the Optimal Frequency Histogram
George Pierdes, Chul Park
Paper

Concurrent 2

Accounting Standards
Working Group

Target Capital for General Insurers
Kevin Gomes
Presentation Paper Audio

Best Practice in Pricing-Multi Probabilistic Trend Modelling
Ben Zehnwirth

The Role of the Actuary Assisting the Audit of a GI Company
Jefferson Gibbs, Samantha Hu, John Barker
Presentation Paper Audio Audio

Impact of Regulatory Capital on Investment Strategy
David Van Ryn
Presentation Paper

Application of Diversification Benefit in Insurance Portfolios
Bartosz Piwcewicz
Paper Audio

The Auditor and the General Insurance Actuary
Paul Harris, Susan Ley, Corinna Leug
Presentation Paper Audio

Equalisation by Risk Based Capitation Reinsurance
Walther Neuhaus
Presentation Paper Audio

Applications of Pearson Correlation to General Insurance
Albert Napoli, Stephen Britt
Presentation Paper Audio

Tastes of the North Dinner and Theatre Sports

Tuesday 18 October 2005

Plenary 3

Navigating Regulation and the Market Place

The New Regulatory Environment
Tony Coleman
Presentation Audio

The Law and the Market Place
Peter Mann
Presentation Audio

Targeting Future Best Practice
Colin Brigstock
Presentation Audio

Concurrent 3

Financial Condition Reports
Dave Finnis, Georgina Tucker, Stewart McCarthy, Vicky Younis
Presentation Paper Audio

Storm Insurance Costs
Tim Andrews, David McNab
Paper Audio

APRA Policy and Cliams DataBase for Liability and PI
Steve Davies

Analysing Expenses Actuaries Get Excited?
Christa Marjoribanks, Syliva Wong, Tim Lane, Craig Price
Presentation Paper Audio

Terrorism – Exposure, Insurability, Pool and Other Solutions
Bruce Thomas
Presentation Paper Audio

Tort Reform
Working Group

Premium Liabilities
Melissa Yan
Presentation Paper Audio

Advanced Catastrophe Modelling Techniques in Practice
Will Gardner
Audio

Tort Reform Annual Report
Geoff Atkins
Presentation Audio

Value-Based Financial Management
Scott Collings, Aaron Cutter

The Use of Statistical Case Estimate for NZ Accident Compensation
Rosi Winn, Sandra Chapman
Paper Audio

Concurrent 4

Assessing and Monitoring Insurance Liability Uncertainty
Elaine Collins, Laurel Kong, Felix Tang, Stephen Robertson Dunn
Presentation Paper Audio

Premium Modelling
Tom Mullin

Recent Development in the Asia Non-Life Markets
Verne Baker, John Tucci
Presentation Paper Audio

Risk Margin Analysis – An Empirical Approach
Andrew Houltram
Presentation Audio

Component Pricing
Charoline Breipohi, David Isaacs
Presentation Paper Audio

Builders' Warrenty – First Resort or Last Resort or Does it Really Matter?
Daniel Smith
Presentation Paper Audio

A Proposed Framework for Estimate Risk Margins Under APRA GPS 210
Connor O'Dowd, Peter Hardy, Andrew Smith
Presentation Paper Audio

Commercial Insurance Pricing
Rosi Winn
Audio

Child Exposures
Working Group

Panel Discussion

A Bayesian Approach to Pricing with Working Example
Win-Li Toh
Presentation Paper

Plenary 4

Looking to the Future

Insurance Council of Australia (ICA)
Carolyn Conor
Presentation Audio

ARCA: What, Why and How?
Warwick Hearne, Chris Latham
Presentation Audio

Current and Future Issues
Tim Andrews – GIPC
Presentation Audio

Wrap of Conference
Geoff Atkins
Audio

Closing Remarks

Andrew Gale, Institute President
Audio