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TIME	SECTION	SESSION	ROOM
Sunday, June 26th, 2016
13:00 – 19:30		Registration	Sheraton Lobby
13:00 – 17:00	IACA	IACA Committee Meeting	Garrison
15:00 – 17:30	PBSS	PBSS Committee Meeting	Signal
12:00 – 15:00	IPEBLA	IPEBLA Steering Committee Meeting	Salon C
15:00 – 17:00	IPEBLA	IPEBLA Prague Committee Meeting	Salon C
19:00	ALL	Welcome Reception	Court Garden
Monday, June 27th, 2016
07:30 – 17:00		Registration	Delta Main Lobby
08:00 – 08:15	ALL	Opening Ceremony	Salon A
08:15 – 09:15	ALL	Plenary: Regulator Roundtable, moderated by Randy Bauslaugh Paul Owens, Robert Neis, Marius Du Toit & Angie Mazerolle	Salon A
09:30 – 10:30	ALL	Plenary: Innovation in Public Pensions Hon. Indira Naidoo-Harris, MPP, Associate Minister of Finance (Ontario Retirement Pension Plan), Mahmood Nanji, Chris Daykin, Rob Brown, moderated by Randy Bauslaugh	Salon A
10:30 – 11:00		Refreshment Break	Crush Lobby
11:00 – 12:30	PBSS	Social Security and Pension System in Nepal Dilip Raj Paudel	Placentia Bay
		Linking pensions to life expectancy: A solution to guarantee long-term sustainability? Carmen Boado-Penas
		Evaluation of the 2014 Quinquennial Valuations of Social Security Pension Plans in Japan (ref: ISAP2 and ISSA-ILO Guidelines) Nobuhiro Shimizu (paper)
	PBSS	Collective Defined Contribution – Torn Between 2 Lovers DB or DC Leon Zijlmans	Salon B
	PBSS	Are Female Baby Boomers Ready for Retirement? Dr. Lori J Curtis	Salon B
	IAAHS	Overcoming the Apartheid Legacy: A South African Case Study on Achieving Social Solidarity in Healthcare Financing Shivani Ranchod & Tim Vieyra	Conception Bay
	IAAHS	Technology in Healthcare Fatima Badat	Conception Bay
	IACA	Difficulties of retirement income provision – particularly for "people on the move" Nigel Sloam	Salon C
	IACA	The challenges of advising international insurance companies Mike Lombardi	Salon C
	IPEBLA	Defined contribution issues (plan fees, decumulation, etc.) Bethune Whiston, Janice Holman & Jeff Mamorsky	Salon D
12:30 – 13:30		Lunch	Salon A
12:30 – 13:30		IACA Biennial General Meeting & Lunch	Brownsdale
13:30 – 15:00	PBSS	Determination of Retirement and Eligibility Ages: Actuarial, Social and Economic Impacts Assia Billig	Salon B
	PBSS	The ageing of the EU – Implications for pensions Chris Daykin (Paper)	Salon B
	PBSS & IPEBLA	How FATCA and CRS Apply to Pension Plans Carl Hansen & David Powell	Conception Bay
	IAAHS	Financial Uncertainty in Health Technology Appraisals Didier Serre	Placentia Bay
	IAAHS	Low Cost Health Cover in Africa: Lessons from Africa to South Africa Kudzai Chigiji	Placentia Bay
	IAAHS	End of Life Care in an Aging World - a Global Perspective Daniel Pribe & Joe Allen Albright	Salon B
	IAAHS	The Health Insurer of the Future Rowen Bell	Salon B
	IACA	Cyber Security Edmund Douglas	Bonavista Bay
	IPEBLA	Pension and Benefit Litigation and Mediation Trends Ari Kaplan & Mark Poerio	Salon D
15:00 – 15:15		Refreshment Break	Crush Lobby
15:15 – 16:45	PBSS	Default funds for South African defined contribution plans: can one size fit all? Dave Struggnel	Salon C
		Dynamic investment strategies in defined contribution drawdown phase Brnic Van Wyk
		Renewable energy: de-risking and yield enhancement opportunities for pension funds Shalin Bhagwan
	PBSS	The impact of the demographic bonus in the pension systems of Social Security Daniela Alejandra González Ramírez & Carlos Contreras Cruz	Salon D
	IAAHS	Application of Agent-based Modelling to Health Care Reform Kosuke Iwasaki	Placentia Bay
	IAAHS	Non-homogenous Alternating Renewal Process for Health Insurance Evolution and Evaluation Raimondo Manca	Placentia Bay
	IACA	Consulting in the Latin America Caribbean Region Mike Smith & Cristina Mano	Conception Bay
	IACA	Capital Issues in the Caribbean Ravi Rambarran	Conception Bay
	IPEBLA	Current Trends in Pension Investment, including ethical investing Carolyn Trenda, Jonathan Mort & Michael Wolpert	Salon B
18:00 – 22:00		Gala Dinner at the Sheraton Hotel	Salon A/B
Tuesday, June 28th, 2016
07:30 – 17:00		Registration	Delta Main Lobby
08:30 – 09:30	ALL	Plenary: Pension and Benefits Governance Panel, moderated by Doug Andrews Paul Litner, John Turner & Lisa Butler Beatty	Salon A
09:45 – 10:30	ALL	Plenary: Conflicts of Interest Actuarial and Legal Perspectives, moderated by Margaret Sherwood Mark Firman & Adam Reese	Salon A
10:30 – 11:00		Refreshment Break	Crush Lobby
11:00 – 12:30	PBSS	Simulation Analysis for Evaluating Risk-sharing Pension Plans Norio Hibiki & Masaaki Ono (paper)	Salon B
	PBSS	A confirmation of Kocken's Proposition about the Intergenerational Risk Transfer within pension plans by Monte Carlo Simluation Ken Sugita (paper)	Salon B
	PBSS	DB Pension risk management with funding surplus and de-accumulation phase Takashi Kato	Placentia Bay
	PBSS	On the Pension Buy-out Pricing in Presence of Stochastic Interest and Mortality Rates Ayse Arik	Placentia Bay
	IAAHS	The evolution of Big Data and its uses in Africa Fatima Badat & Kudzai Chigiji	Salon D
	IAAHS	Pricing and Valuation in the Presence of Risk Adjustment in Medical Insurance Plans in the USA Jed Linfield	Salon D
	IACA	Actuaries working with Lawyers: Expert witness in personal injury cases Chris Daykin	Salon C
	IACA	Requirements for being an expert witness in pension cases and the difference between UK and USA Jonathan Punter	Salon C
	IPEBLA	Pension (& Benefits?) Aspects of Cross-Border M&A An Van Damme, Brian Buggy & Jessica Bullock	Conception Bay
12:30 – 13:30	ALL	Lunch	Salon A
12:30 – 13:30	IAAHS	IAAHS Biennial General Meeting and Lunch	Brownsdale
13:45 – 15:15	PBSS	War and Pensions John Turner	Salon C
	PBSS	Social cost of abolishing Japanese Employee Pension Fund Takahiro Tachimoto	Salon C
	PBSS	An Actuarial Balance Sheet Approach to Assessing Sustainability of Target Benefit Plans George Ma	Salon B
	PBSS	The role of the actuarial calculations and reviews in pension supervision Esko Kivisaari	Salon B
	IAAHS	Performance Evaluation Framework for Government-Sponsored Health Insurance Programs Denis Garand	Conception Bay
	IAAHS	Long-Term Care Andrew Dalton & Vincent Bodnar	Bonavista Bay
	IACA	The challenge of professionalism in a cross-disciplinary and international environment Ben Kemp	Placentia Bay
	IACA	The actuarial discipline scheme in the US Mike Toothman	Placentia Bay
	IPEBLA	What's New in Executive Compensation: The Influence of Pension Funds and Shareholder Advisory Services in Shaping Executive Compensation Susan Wetzel, Andrea Boctor & Mariana MacIntosh	Salon D
15:15 – 15:30		Refreshment Break	Crush Lobby
15:45 – 16:45		Joint Plenary Session with CIA: The Personalized Medicine Revolution Dr. Pieter R. Cullis, Jacques Boudreau & Emile Stipp	Bowring Ballroom, Delta Convention Centre
18:00 – 22:00		Joint Pub Crawl with CIA - Rally in the Alley *Departs from Delta Hotel*	Salon A
Wednesday, June 29th, 2016
07:00 – 15:00		Registration	Delta Main Lobby
09:00 – 10:45	ALL	Joint Keynote with CIA: Michael Woodford Whistle-Blowing and Lessons on Governance and Crisis Management	Bowring Ballroom, Delta Convention Centre
10:45 – 11:15	ALL	Joint Refreshment Break with CIA	Convention Centre
11:15 – 12:30	ALL	Breakout Session with Michael Woodford: Whistle-Blowing and Lessons on Governance and Crisis Management	Bannerman 4, Delta Convention Centre
	PBSS	Managing State Pension Provision with an Aging Population – Accounting for Social Security Liabilities Robert L Brown	Salon B
	IAAHS	The impact of Demand-driven Health Assessments on Customer Behaviour and Medical Insurance Claims in the UK Adrian Baskir	Salon C
	IAAHS	Using Actuarial Tools in the Province of British Columbia to Eliminate Chronic Diseases Ella Young	Salon C
	IACA	Trees that Feed Shubhash Gosine & Cathy Lyn	Conception Bay
	IPEBLA	Troubled Plans and Troubled Plan Sponsors - Legal, Actuarial and Regulatory Approaches Mitch Frazer, Paul Lai Fatt & Cathy Smith	Salon D
12:30 – 13:45	ALL	Lunch	Salon A
12:30 – 13:45	PBSS	PBSS General Meeting and Lunch	Brownsdale
13:45 – 15:00	ALL	Colloquium Closing Plenary Session: Global Healthcare Cost Drivers Tom Wildsmith, John Have, Emile Stipp & Adrian Baskir Moderator by April Choi	Salon A
15:30 – 16:30	IAAHS	IAAHS Committee Meeting	Placentia Bay
16:00 – 16:45	IACA	IACA Committee Meeting	St Mary's Bay

Joint Sessions with Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) which take place at the Convention Centre

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