Abstracts and Papers

Life Insurance

  • Aging and its impact on Governments, Companies and Life & Health Insurance Products   [Abstract]
  • Impact on Life Insurance Practices in Changing Actuarial Regime   [Abstract]
  • Assessing Sources of Funding for Insurance Risk Based Capital
  • Market Risk Modeling for Insurers   [Abstract]
  • New Distribution Channels in Insurance   [Abstract]
  • Evolving Distribution Models   [Abstract]
  • Product Strategies under Solvency II and IFRS 4 Phase II   [Abstract]
  • Variable Annuity in China – The Opportunity and Challenges Ahead   [Abstract]
  • Tipping Point of Variable Annuity?   [Abstract]

  • Communicating Takaful   [Abstract]

ERM

  • ORSA and ERM – Are They The Same?  [Abstract]
  • Operational Risk – An Enterprise Risk Management Presentation  [Abstract]
  • Emerging Risks or Black Swans?  [Abstract]
  • Application of Enterprise Risk Management to Private Pension  [Abstract] (also Pensions)

Pensions & Social Security

  • Stochastic Projections of the Financial Experience of Social Security Programs: Issues and Alternatives  [Abstract]
  • Pension System in Armenia  [Abstract]
  • Reform of the Fiji National Provident Fund  [Abstract]
  • Logical errors and inconsistencies of the Swedish pension system  [Abstract]
  • The Reformed Mexican Social Security System: 15 years of experience  [Abstract]
  • The Need for a Socio-economic Approach in Actuarial Valuations of Social Security  [Abstract]
  • Pensions in a Shrinking Economy  [Abstract]
  • Management of Pension Assets in China  [Abstract]
  • Living Until 120: The Implications for Absolutely Everything  [Abstract]
  • The experience of Employee's Pension Funds in Japan – how to manage pension plans soundly  [Abstract]
  • How social security is responding to the low birthrate and longevity? (Focusing on annuity)  [Abstract]
  • Introducing a Retirement Benefit Target  [Abstract]
  • The Pension Benefit Evolution in Indonesia: Design, Funding & Accounting Perspectives  [Abstract]
  • IAS 19 Revision: Incorporating the Cairns-Blake-Dowd Model into the Valuation of Defined Benefit Obligations  [Abstract]
  • Defined Changes to Contributions Must Change the Actuary's Mentality  [Abstract]
  • Long Dated Life Insurance and Pension Contracts  [Abstract]
  • Observations on the Financing of the United States Social Security System  [Abstract]
  • Application of Enterprise Risk Management to Private Pension  [Abstract] (also ERM)

Health Insurance

  • Health Care Reform in China and Hong Kong  [Abstract]
  • Healthcare Reform: Opportunity for Public-Private Partnership  [Abstract]
  • Hong Kong Healthcare Reform and Applications to Countries with Public Sector Dominated Healthcare Delivery Systems  [Abstract]
  • Public-Private Healthcare Financing Partnership Survey  [Abstract]
  • The Public Health Care Plan in China, Reality and Challenge  [Abstract]
  • Long-Term Care Service and Financing Options in China  [Abstract]
  • Using Housing Wealth to Fund Long Term Care  [Abstract]
  • Long-term Care at a crossroads: delivery of adequate protection to the wider public  [Abstract]
  • Post Retirement Health Insurance  [Abstract]
  • Asia's Health Actuaries: An Endangered Species (or Creating a Sustainable Group Insurance Marketplace in Asia)  [Abstract]
  • Financial risk involved in health care for the elderly in modern economies  [Abstract]
  • Long-Term Health Insurance Guarantees  [Abstract]
  • On the modeling and estimation of the health process and healthy life expectancy in the U.S.  [Abstract]
  • 2004-2008 Dread Disease Experience Study  [Abstract]
  • Future Cost of Cancer 
  • Trends in the cost of oncology treatment and drug costs
  • Cancer: Past, Present and Future – view from the Korean market   [Abstract]
  • Risk Adjustment – A Global Perspective  [Abstract]
  • Prevention reduces healthcare costs: the importance of alternative models  [Abstract]
  • The Integration of Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Health Systems  [Abstract]
  • Micro Health Insurance in Fiji  [Abstract]
  • Pricing of health microinsurance (HMI)  [Abstract]
  • Investigating the benefits of integrating wellness program into (health) insurance benefits  [Abstract]
  • Solvency II – Good business practise?  [Abstract]
  • Effect of Medical Cost Changes on the Calculation of Liability  [Abstract]
  • The Impact of Medical Cost Inflation and Dynamic Policyholder Behavior on Market Consistent Embedded Value in Health Insurance  [Abstract]
  • Selling Health Insurance via Bancassurance: a success story from the UK  [Abstract]
  • Private Disability Products / Disability Income Benefits: Innovation or Confusion   [Abstract]
  • Solvency II – work on the finishing line
  • Underwriting Issues for Health Products

General (NON-LIFE) Insurance

  • Boosted Regression Trees – A Modern Way to Enhance Actuarial Modeling  [Abstract]
  • Internal Capital and Risk Modeling – Will This Put Actuaries in the Spotlight?  [Abstract]
  • Understanding extra-terrestrial Influences on nature's risks  [Abstract]

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