Papers and Presentations
Monday, May 7
| Time | Track / Sesion # |
Session Title |
|---|---|---|
| 08:30 – 09:00 | Opening Ceremony Peter Duran, President, Actuarial Society of Hong Kong [Speech] [Video] |
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| 09:00 – 09:45 | Plenary MPS1 |
The Role of the Actuarial Profession's Social and Ethical Mission (Dr. Anthony Neoh) |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Plenary MPS2 |
Aging and its impact on Governments, Companies and Life & Health Insurance Products (Paul Murray) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Health Plenary MPS3 |
Health Care Reform in Hong Kong (Peter Yuen) Health Care Reform in China (Gordon Liu) |
IACA / MBR4 |
Introducing a Retirement Benefit Target (Brnic Van Wyk) Long Dated Life Insurance and Pension Contracts (Knut Aase) |
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IACA / MBR5 |
The Reformed Mexican Social Security System: 15 years of experience (Abraham Hernández) The Need for a Socio-economic Approach in Actuarial Valuations of Social Security (Roberto Ham-Chande) |
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Life / Non-life MBR13 |
CANCELLED |
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| 13:30 – 15:00 | IACA / Life / Plenary MPS6 |
Living Until 120: The Implications for Absolutely Everything (Melinda Howes & Barry Rafe) |
Health MBR7 |
Healthcare Reform: Opportunity for Public-Private Partnership (Sam Yeung) Hong Kong Healthcare Reform and Applications to Countries with Public Sector Dominated Healthcare Delivery Systems (Chye Pang-Hsiang) |
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Health MBR8 |
2004-2008 Dread Disease Experience Study (Wolfgang Droste) Underwriting Issues for Health Products (Jeff Cook) |
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Non-life MBR14 |
Assessing Claim Liabilities from the Thailand Floods (Verne Baker & Phillip Cheuk Tong Liu) [Presentation] |
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| 15:15 – 16:45 | Life MBR9 |
Impact on Life Insurance Practices in Changing Actuarial Regime (C.F. Yam) Communicating Takaful (Loke Chang Yueh & Nicholas Yeo) |
Health MBR10 |
Public-Private Healthcare Financing Partnership Survey (Siao Wearn Leong) Post Retirement Health Insurance (Ka Chun Cheung) |
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Health MBR11 |
Investigating the benefits of integrating wellness program into (health) insurance benefits (Linda Kam) Prevention reduces healthcare costs: the importance of alternative models (Ignacio del Barco) |
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IACA / MBR12 |
Pension System in Armenia (Astghik Ananyan, Doug Carey & Lindsay Wolff) Reform of the Fiji National Provident Fund (Geoff Rashbrooke) |
Tuesday, May 8
| Time | Track / Sesion # |
Session Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Plenary TPS1 |
Consumer Protection in the Insurance Industry (Annie Choi) |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Plenary TPS2 |
The life and non-life insurance markets of Asia, the companies operating in them, and the changing definition of the "multinational" (Simon Walpole) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Life TBR3 |
The Realpolitik of using MCEV in Asia – a potential way forward for Embedded Value reporting in Chinese Taipei and elsewhere in the region (Simon Walpole & Ophelia Au Young) |
ERM / Life / TBR4 |
ORSA and ERM – Are they the same? (Doug Caldwell) Operational Risk – An Enterprise Risk Management Presentation (Margaret Sherwood) |
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Health TBR5 |
Using Housing Wealth to Fund Long Term Care (Doug Andrews) Long-term Care at a crossroads: delivery of adequate protection to the wider public (Dirk Nieder) |
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Health TBR6 |
Effect of Medical Cost Changes on the Calculation of Liability (Jed Linfield) The Impact of Medical Cost Inflation and Dynamic Policyholder Behavior on Market Consistent Embedded Value in Health Insurance (Jan-Philipp Schmidt) |
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IACA / TBR7 |
Defined Changes to Contributions Must Change the Actuary's Mentality (Ignacio del Barco) How social security is responding to the low birthrate and longevity? (Ryosuke Imanaka) |
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| 13:30 – 15:00 | IACA / TBR8 |
Stochastic Projections of the Financial Experience of Social Security Programs: Issues and Alternatives (Bruce Schobel) Observations on the Financing of the United States Social Security System (Ken Buffin) |
Life TBR9 |
Variable Annuity in China – the opportunity and challenges ahead (Sharon Huang) Tipping Point of Variable Annuity? (Jackie Wai Chu) |
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Health TBR10 |
Long-Term Health Insurance Guarantees (Lawrence Tsui) Trends in the cost of oncology treatment and drug costs (Emile Stipp) |
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Health TBR11 |
The Integration of Traditional and Complementary Medicine in Health Systems (Heather McLeod) Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine in China: Integration Policy (Vincent Chung) |
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Life / ERM TBR12 |
Emerging Risks or Black Swans? (Ka Man Wong) ERM: Theory, Practice and Actuaries (Young Goh) |
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| 15:15 – 16:45 | Life TBR13 |
Product Strategies under Solvency II and IFRS 4 Phase II (Tze Ping Chng & Thomas Tang) [Presentation] [Video] |
Non-Life TBR14 |
Boosted Regression Trees – a modern way to enhance actuarial modelling (Xavier Conort) Internal Capital and Risk modelling – will this put actuaries in the spotlight? (Michael Fung) |
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Health / ERM TBR15 |
Solvency II – Good business practise? (James Creedon & Penny Fosker) Solvency II – Work on the Finishing Line (Janka Schuld) |
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Health TBR16 |
Selling Health Insurance via Bancassurance: a success story from the UK (Dennis Smith, Paul Hately & Sarah Bennett) [Presentation] |
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IACA / TBR17 |
Management of Pension Assets in China (Stuart Leckie) The Pension Benefit Evolution in Indonesia: Design, Funding & Accounting Perspectives (Halim Gunawan) |
Wednesday, May 9
| Time | Track / Sesion # |
Session Title |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Plenary WPS1 |
Social and Economic Trends in East Asia: Impact on Social Protection Systems (Mitchell Wiener) |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Plenary WPS2 |
The Role of Provident Funds in Social and Economic Development (Cynthia Hui) |
| 11:00 - 12:30 | Life WBR3 |
Assessing Sources of Funding for Insurance Risk Based Capital (Louis Lee) Market Risk Modeling for Insurers (Eric Yau) |
Health WBR4 |
The Public Health Care Plan in China, Reality and Challenge (Wenliang Wang) Long-Term Care Service and Financing Options in China (Robert Yee) |
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Health WBR5 |
Private Disability Products (Dirk Nieder) Disability Income Benefits: Innovation or Confusion (James Louw) |
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IACA / WBR6 |
Logical errors and inconsistencies of the Swedish pension system (Massimo Angrisani & Cinzia Di Palo) Pensions in a Shrinking Economy (Jan Kuné) |
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| 13:30 – 15:00 | Health WBR7 |
Asia's Health Actuaries: An Endangered Species (Cory Gusland, Greta Mikelonis & Stella Ma) Financial risk involved in health care for the elderly in modern economies (Jeff Petertil) |
Health WBR8 |
Future Cost of Cancer (Lawrence Tsui) Cancer: Past, Present and Future – view from the Korean market (HyeSun Lim) |
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IACA / Non-life WBR9 |
Legacy: An American Odyssey (Fred Kilbourne) Understanding extra-terrestrial Influences on nature's risks (Brent Walker) |
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IACA / ERM / WBR10 |
Application of Enterprise Risk Management to Private Pension (Katsuhiro Yagura) Ponzi Fraud, Market Turmoil, and Investment Regulations (Ken Sugita) |
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| 15:15 – 16:45 | Health WBR11 |
Pricing of health microinsurance (HMI) (Denis Garand) |
Health WBR12 |
Risk Adjustment – A Global Perspective (Susan Mateja) Risk Adjustment Basics and Beyond
(Ian Duncan) |
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IACA / WBR13 |
The experience of Employee's Pension Funds in Japan – how to manage pension plans soundly (Ryouhei Yoshizawa) IAS 19 Revision: Incorporating the Cairns-Blake-Dowd Model into the Valuation of Defined Benefit Obligations (Yosuke Fujisawa) |
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Life WBR14 |
Evolving Distribution Models (Young Goh) [Paper] [Presentation] |
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| 16:45 – 17:15 | Closing Ceremony [Video] Ka Man Wong |
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