今回のシドニー出張は２週間近くの長期間であったが、IAA Meetingsに引き続き、オーストラリア・アクチュアリー会のBiennial Conventionが、４月１１日から１３日まで開催されたので、この大会にも参加してきた。英国アクチュアリー会の影響を受けて創設された歴史はあるものの、広い国土で明るく開放感もあり、またリーマンショックによるGlobal Financial Crisisの影響も軽微であったことから、経済の調子は良く、オーストラリアドルは、近年になく高値で推移している。アクチュアリープロフェッションの規模は、日本アクチュアリー会とほぼ同等の大きさであろうかと思えた。ただ、大会はヒルトンホテルのコンベンションルームを多数使用しており、日本の年次大会より、はるかに華やかでアメリカの大会に似ている。大きな違いは、やはりコーポレートスポンサーが沢山の寄付をして、Dinner functionなどを丸ごと費用負担していることであろう。賛助会費制度を採用している日本アクチュアリー会では、抵抗のあるところであろうが、アクチュアリープロフェッションの高揚のためには、このような制度も検討すべき時代に入ってきているのかもしれない。プログラムは、次のとおりであった。リンクは、次の通り。
http://www.actuaries.asn.au/con2011.aspx
Program
Session Grading
no * No prior knowledge required
* General industry knowledge assumed
** Technical and/or specific industry knowledge assumed
Time Event Session Room
SUNDAY 10 APRIL
12.00 Optional Activity - Golf
14.00 Pre-event Registration – 2hrs
18.30 Bus departs Hilton Hotel
19.00 Welcome Dinner
Melinda Howes – CEO
Institute of Actuaries of Australia
Dress Smart Casual Crystal Ballroom, Luna Park Sydney
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 Grand Ballroom
Desmond Smith, Chair, RGA and Chair, Sanlam, South Africa
Presentation
Seamus Creedon, Consultant, KPMG and Solvency II Project Manager, Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Europeen
Presentation
Hazel McNeilage Head of Funds Management, Queensland Investment Corporation
Presentation
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
State Room
1b Financial Wellbeing, Actions and Concerns - Preliminary Findings From a Survey of Elderly Australians
Tim Higgins
Paper
Presentation
Room 2
1c Comparison of Basel III Regulatory Regimes between, UK, Australia and Canada *
Wendy Yip, Mark Young
Presentation
Room 3
1d Securitise This: The Structuring, Pricing and Risk Management Applications of Insurance Securitisations*
Jonathan Tindall
Paper
Presentation
Room 4
1e The Regulation of Retail Investors
Eric Ranson
Paper
Presentation
Room 5
1f Replicating Portfolios & Risk Management – An Australian Perspective *
Joshua Corrigan, Charles Qin
Presentation
Room 6
12.00 CHANGE OVER
12.05 Concurrent 2
2a Risk Appetite - What the CEO and Board Should Be Doing
Ian Laughlin
Presentation
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
Room 3
2d When Too Much is Not Enough: Capital in a Mutual Health Fund
Peter Carroll
Paper
Presentation
Room 4
2e Women on Boards and in Senior Management
Jenny Lyon and Ruth Medd
Presentation
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
State Room
3b Manufacturing Inflation Risk Protection
Josh Corrigan
Paper
Room 2
3c Strategic Disinformation
Shauna Ferris
Presentation
Room 3
3d Reducing Retirement Income Costs
Sean McGing
Presentation
Paper
Room 4
3e Health Financial Condition Reports – The First Five Years
Raewin Davies, Adam Jupp
Presentation
Room 5
3f PANEL DISCUSSION - Beyond the benchmark: Perspectives on Adding Value to the Investment Process *
Michael O'Neill, Geoff Warren, Andrew Francis Room 6
15.30 Afternoon Tea L3 - Foyer
16.00 Plenary 2 - Challenges and Opportunities for Australia Grand Ballroom
Pauline Blight-Johnston, Managing Director, RGA Australia
Presentation
Curt Zuber, Group Treasurer, Westpac Banking Corporation
John Maroney, Principal Administrator, International Association of Insurance Supervisors
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 State Room
8.30 Conventions Highlights – The Morning After Grand Ballroom
8.45 Plenary 3 - Interaction with Social Issues
Bernard Salt, Partner, KPMG.
Simon Longstaff, Executive Director, St James Ethics Centre
Presentation
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
State Room
4b New Treasury Stochastic Modelling of Australian Retirement Incomes
Brendan Price, Albert Suryadi
Paper
Presentation
Room 2
4c The Likely Cost of Catastrophic Medical Injuries Under a National Disability Insurance Scheme *
Jonathan Cohen, Linda Satchwell, Adrian Gould
Presentation
Room 3
4d Seven Up: The Appointed Actuary in Australian Health Insurance Seven Years On *
Stuart Rodger
Presentation
Room 4
4e Evaluation of Public Policy Initiatives *
Geoff Dunsford
Paper
Presentation
Room 5
4f Modelling Dependence in Insurance Claims Processes with Lévy Copulas *
Luke Cassar, Benjamin Avanzi, Bernard Wong
Paper
Presentation
Room 6
11.45 CHANGE OVER
11.50 Concurrent 5
5a Risk Margins: An Education Session *
Risk Margins Task Force
Paper/Presentation
Presentation
State Room
5b Growing Pains: Selection Effects in Private Health Insurance *
Andrew Gale
Paper
Presentation
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
Room 4
5e Modelling Mortality with a Bayesian Vector Autoregression **
Carolyn Njenga, Michael Sherris
Paper
Presentation
Room 5
5f An Economic Model to Evaluate Extreme Events for Lenders’ Mortgage Insurers *
Elaine Collins, Angela Tong
Presentation
Room 6
12.50 Lunch Grand Ballroom
14.20 Concurrent 6
6a Actuaries and Non-financial Business Risks: Operational, Project and Strategic Risk
Adrian Johnstone, Paul Lindeberg
Paper
Presentation
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
Room 2
6c Contemporary Issues in Private Health Insurance *
Andrew Gale, Ben Ooi, David Watson (Health Practice Committee)
Presentation
Room 3
6d Managing Systematic Mortality Risk with Group Self Pooling and Annuitization Schemes
Mike Sherris, Chao Qiao
Paper
Presentation
Room 4
6e Essence of Actuary: Skills + Practices + Capabilities = Value *
Presentation Jules Gribble Room 5
6f The involvement of actuaries in General Insurance – Past, Present and Future
Daniel Smith, Donna Walker
Paper
Presentation
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
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
Room 2
7c Using Data and Analytics to Drive Strategy Outside of Traditional Fields
Adam Driussi
Presentation
Room 3
7d Risk Equalisation 2020 – Is the Current System Sustainable? *
Jamie Reid
Paper
Presentation
Room 4
7e Towards a Carbon Neutral Actuarial Profession
Alan Greenfield, Martin Fry
Paper
Presentation
Room 5
7f Valuing Employee Share Options Using the Exercise Multiple Approach and Binary P-options **
Tim Kyng
Presentation
Room 6
9.30 CHANGE OVER
9.35 Concurrent 8
8a Approaches to Setting Capital for Investment Guarantees *
John Nicholls, Ismar Tuzovic
Presentation
State Room
8b The Man Who Ate Himself - Why Overpopulation and Overuse of Resources Will Lead to Humanity's Demise
Anthony Vial
Paper
Presentation
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
Room 3
8d Managing Liquidity in Superannuation *
Jules Gribble, Cary Helenius
Presentation
Room 4
8e Session cancelled
8f Risk Appetite - Practical Implementation Issues *
Kent Griffin
Presentation
Room 6
10.35 Morning Tea L3 – Foyer
11.00 Plenary 5 - So, How Far Can Actuaries Go?
Mike Barker, Director, MetLife
Zac Roberts, Director, SouthPeak Investment Management
Presentation
Tony Coleman, Lonergan Edwards & Associates
Presentation
Kirsten Armstrong, Director, Three Rivers
Adam Driussi, Director, Quantium
Presentation
Grand Ballroom
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Convention Close
