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AFIR-ERM / IAALS Colloquium 2009
Munich, Germany -  6-11 September 2009  
Speaker Presentation Title
Chris Watts, UK Longevity and mortality risk transfer in the capital markets through the LifeMetrics platform [ Presentation ]
Tiziana Torri, D Building blocks for a mortality index in an international context [ Presentation ]
Guido Grützner, D Cautionary remarks about conclusions from the observation of record-life expectancy [ Presentation ]
Alexander Kling, D Tax incentives for annuitization – direct and indirect effects [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Benjamin Avanzi, AU What is it that make the Swiss annuitise? A description of the Swiss retirement system [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Esben Massoti Kryger, DK Pension fund design under fairness and efficiency constraints [ Presentation ]
Gudrun Hörmann, D Optimal Risk Classification and Underwriting Risk for Substandard Annuities [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Adele Groyer, UK, Inga Kreiensiek, D Assessing critical illness - the facts behind the stats [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Werner Hürlimann, CH Actuarial analysis of the multiple life endowment insurance contract [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Michel Denuit, B Dynamic life tables: Construction and applications [ Presentation ]
Steven Haberman, UK Comparative study of mortality forecasting models [ Presentation ]
Nadine Gatzert, D Understanding the death benefit switch option in universal life policies [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Jari Niittuinperä, FI Mortality when converting from conventional life insurance policies into universal life policies [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Martin Eling, CH The performance of microinsurance programs: A frontier efficiency analysis [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Stefan Heyers, D Managing value using market consistent methodologies: MCEV-value management accelerator or hand brake? [ Presentation ]
Nick Dexter, UK Market Value Management [ Presentation ]
Tigran Kalberer, CH Internal Models [ Presentation ]
Marcus Christiansen, D Sensitivity Analysis and Worst-Case Analysis - Making use of netting effects when designing insurance contracts [ Presentation ]
Daniel Bauer A universal pricing framework for guaranteed minimum benefits in variable annuities [ Paper ]
Annamaria Olivieri, I Stochastic mortality: experience-based modeling and application issues consistent with Solvency II [ Presentation ]
Dr. Paul Triggs, D Does morbidity modelling solve the problem of predicting death and disability? [ Presentation ]
Susanna Levantesi, I Biometric risks assessment and management in annuities with long term care benefits
Frederik Weber, D Mortality-indexed annuities: Avoiding unwanted risk [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Esther Schütz, D The biometric risk in internal models for Solvency II [ Presentation ]
Larry Rubin, USA Economic measurement of insurance liabilities [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Ed Morgan, UK; Matthias Bonikowski, D The role and structure of profit participation products in the European life insurance market following Solvency II [ Presentation ]
Norbert Heinen, D Solvency, accounting and the evaluation of life insurance business [ Presentation ]
Paolo Cadoni, UK Solvency II and internal models [ Presentation ]
David Blake, UK The new life market: From survivor bonds to life settlements securitisation [ Presentation ]
Christian Mumenthaler, CH Risk management in a challenging environment [ Presentation ]
Romain Bridet, F Extreme Mortality Bonds [ Presentation ]
Heinz Holler, D; Gary Finkelstein, UK Variable annuity risk management and hedging effectiveness [ Presentation ]
Lars Pralle, D Variable annuities: Some reserving and regulation considerations [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Oskar Goecke, D The group-balanced concept of long-term saving: A continuous time model [ Presentation ]
Ralph Stevens, NL Longevity risk and hedge effects in portfolios of life insurance products with investment risk [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Thorsten Wagner, D Replicating portfolios in the life insurance business: Use and limitations [ Presentation ]
Raimund Rhiel, D Company pension plans and financial crisis: Lessons learned? [ Presentation ]
Anne Puustelli, FI Hedging against volatility, jumps and longevity risk in participating life insurance contracts - a Bayesian analysis [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Laura Ballotta, UK Investment strategies and risk management for participating contracts [ Presentation ]
Frederic Planchet, F Optimal strategies of hedging portfolio of unit-linked life insurance contracts with minimum death guarantee
Karel van Hulle, B Solvency II: A challenge also for actuaries [ Presentation ]
Gyöngi Bugar, HU A longitudinal study on portfolio optimisation: Is the “success” time dependent? [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Andrew Cairns, UK Mathematical models and the credit crunch [ Presentation ]
Harald Kinateder, D Market risk prediction under long memory: when VaR is higher than expected [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Thomas Salisbury, CA Valuation, hedging and demand for ruin-contingent life annuities (RCLA) [ Presentation ]
Mogens Steffensen, DK Pension fund management based on solutions to constrained consumption-investment problems [ Presentation ]
Shaun Levitan, ZA, Youri Dolya, ZA Optimal post-retirement investment strategies [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Alexander Baier, D An integrated Cost of Risk model and its application to company valuation [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Rocco Cerchiara, I Multivariate analysis to modelling and aggregating surrender risk under internal risk models [ Presentation ]
Alexander Dotterweich, D Optimization of limit systems for investment risks in accordance with Solvency II and German MaRisk [ Presentation] [ Paper ]
Antje Mahayni, D ow good are portfolio insurance strategies? [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Thomas Moller, DK Risk-minimization with mortality derivatives: mixed dynamic and static hedging  [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Arne Hove, NO Pricing interest rate guarantees in Norwegian defined benefit pension [ Presentation ]
Werner Hürlimann, CH Quasi-exact numerical evaluation of synthetic CDO prices [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Aldo Balestreri, I; Jeremy Kent, UK Dynamic asset liability management [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Stefan Graf, D Risk analysis and valuation of life insurance contracts: combining actuarial and financial approaches [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Benjamin Avanzi, AU On the level of national retirement savings with annuitisation and cross-subsidies: a two-tiered economic model [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Mabrouk Chetouane, F Defined contribution pension plans management and market opportunities [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Ralf Korn, D Asset allocation for a DC pension fund under regime switching environment [ Presentation ]
Albert Enders, D Index-linked longevity risk transfer – reduced basis risk with sociodemographic parameter [ Presentation ]
Helena Aro, FI A robust approach to stochastic mortality modelling [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Johnny Li, CA Canonical valuation of mortality-linked securities [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Matti Koivu, FI Cash-flow based valuation of pension liabilities [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Olivier Le Courtois, F Lévy-VaR and Basle Multipliers
Hubert Müller, USA Economic Capital – Recent Market Trends and Best Practices for Implementation abstract [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Mikkel Dahl A discrete-time model for reinvestment risk in bound markets [ Paper ]
Hal Pedersen, CA What are the essential features of a good economic scenario generator? [ Presentation ]
Frederik Ruez, D The impact of stochastic volatility on pricing, hedging, and hedge efficiency of variable annuity guarantees [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Susanne Kruse, D On the pricing of inflation-indexed caps [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Teemu Pennanen, FI Pricing and hedging of mortality linked securities [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Christian Kraus, D Market consistent embedded value in non-life insurance: How to measure it and why [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Olivier Le Courtois, F On credit and surrender risks in insurance companies
Enrico Schumann, CH Risk-reward optimisation for long-run investors: an empirical analysis [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Eric Thorlacius, USA The model quantitative firm [ Presentation ]
Michael Sherris, AU Pricing and Hedging synthetic CDO tranche spread risks abstract [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Andreas C. Gintschel, D A global liquidity factor for fixed income pricing abstract [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Rob Thomson, ZA The arbitrage-free equilibrium pricing of liabilitites in an incomplete market: Application to a South African retirement fund [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Petri Hilli, FI Liability driven optimization of investment strategies [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Olivia S. Mitchell Global challenges in pension risk management
Ralph Rogalla, D Managing contribution and capital market risk in a funded public defined benefit plan: impact of CVaR cost constraints [ Presentation ]
Elena Vigna, I Mean-variance inefficiency of CRRA and CARA utility functions for portfolio selection in defined contribution pension schemes [ Presentation] [ Paper ]
Ljudmila Bertschi, CH Solvency requirements for Swiss pension funds and how to ensure the guarantee of benefit payments at any time [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Shimizu Nobuhiro, JP Economic value of contribution cashflows for a sponsoring employer of a DB pension plan and measures to bring the economic value under control within an affordable range [ Presentation ] [ Paper ]
Ferdinand Haas, D Guaranteed saving plans: An analysis of alternative fund-linked strategies
Frederik Weber, D Select birth cohorts abstract [ Presentation } [ Paper ]
Chun Shang Wong, HK Estimating portfolio Value-at-Risk with multivariate mixture time series models [ Presentation ]
Laura Ziani, I Mean-variance efficient strategies in proportional reinsurance under group correlation in a Gaussian framework [ Presentation [ Paper ]