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A Joint Colloquium and Seminar of three sections of the International Actuarial Association (IAA), namely, the Consulting Section (IACA), the Pensions, Benefits and Social Security Section (PBSS) and the Health Section (IAAHS) will take place in Boston, USA on May 4-7, 2008. The program will include formal addresses by eminent keynote speakers, topical seminar-type sessions with invited presenters, and a variety of parallel sessions at which submitted papers will be presented.

The Colloquium will cover all practice areas, including pensions, social security, investment, health, life and casualty insurance, enterprise risk management and general topics such as professionalism, the public interest, and consulting practice. The theme of the Colloquium is Global Challenges and Opportunities facing the Actuarial Profession. The major topics to be covered include:

Pensions and Social Security

  • The challenges of longevity, solvency and sustainability
  • De-risking defined benefit liabilities
  • Developing investment strategies for pension plans
  • Making accounting for pension costs more meaningful
  • Actuarial roles in a defined contribution world
  • Income adequacy for individuals. Are DB plans dead?

Health

  • Catastrophic risks  in health care provision
  • Financing post-retirement health care
  • Evaluating value for money in treatments
  • Financing and Delivering Health to the Poor
  • Health Risk Management
  • Regulating Health Insurance Markets

Consulting practice

  • The public interest and the fiduciary client relationship
  • Handling conflicts of interest
  • Actuarial communication
  • New areas of actuarial consulting practice
  • Enterprise Risk  Management
  • Developments in actuarial education

Insurance

  • The future of solvency regulation
  • International financial reporting standards
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Reserve variability
  • Predictive modeling in general insurance
  • Reinsurance

You are cordially invited to attend the Boston Colloquium on May 4-7, 2008. SAVE THE DATE and REGISTER!

Consulting actuaries under 40 may be eligible to obtain a CA$400 travel grant (a total of 50 are available) from the IACA Section to attend the Colloquium. Because of the limited number of grants, please confirm your interest ASAP. Grants will be awarded on a first-come first-serve basis to consulting actuaries under 40 years of age who are/or wish to become members of IACA.

For any questions relating to the Colloquium, please contact Boston2008@actuaries.org

  

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