Plenary and Panel Sessions
Plenary Sessions
Thursday, September 20
Registration
8:00 - 8:45
Opening Remarks
8:45 - 9:00
Plenary Session 1 - Mortality trends and forecasts
9:00 - 10:30
- Professor James Vaupel (Centre on Population Change, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) - Longevity: Past and Future
- Peter Banthorpe (Head of mortality research RGA) - Mortality trends and forecasts across the UK, US, and Canadian Markets
- Michel Vellekoop/Wilbert Ouburg (Dutch Actuarial Society) - Increasing the stability of mortality projections: the Dutch approach
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Plenary Session 2 - How much intergenerational risk sharing is optimal?
11:00 - 12:30
- Peter Vlaar (APG) - The ever lasting Dutch pension debate: How much collectivity do we want to keep?
- Michel Vellekoop (Universiteit van Amsterdam) - Longevity risk sharing in collective pension schemes: current practice and proposals for alternatives
- Amy Kessler (Prudential Financial, Inc.) - Everybody out of the pool: Optimizing outcomes if there is a shift from a collective to an individual pension risk system
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Parallel Session I
14:00 - 15:30
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
Plenary Session 3 - Using risk analytics and state of the art technology to optimize the value of a pension risk transfer business and the practical application of longevity research.
16:00 - 18:00
- Jeff Mulholland (PwC) - Using risk analytics to optimize the value of a pension risk transfer business.
- Mark Higgins (Beacon) - Technology solutions for optimizing the value of a pension risk transfer business
- Jeff Mulholland (PwC) - Practical application of state of the art longevity research
- Professor Andrew Cairns (Heriot-Watt University) - to discuss Annals of Actuarial Science.
Drinks Reception
19:00 - 20:00
Gala Dinner
20:00 - 22:30
Friday, September 21
Parallel Session II
9:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
Plenary Session 4 - Inequality and intergenerational challenges
11:00 -12:00
- Guy Coughlan (USS) - Inequality: Wealth, Health and Longevity
- Sarah Bates (St. James's Place Wealth Management) - Intergenerational Wealth Transfer, Social Inequality and Immobility
Plenary Session 5 - Stimulating the longevity index market
12:00 -12:30
- Steven Baxter (Club Vita) - Completing the circle: Overcoming the final hurdles to stimulating the longevity index market
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Parallel Session III
14:00 - 15:30
Tea Break
15:30 - 16:00
Plenary session 6 - Longevity investments and the regulatory dimension
16:30 - 18:00
- Cord-Roland Rinke (Hannover Re) - A new framework for longevity index covers
- Avery Michaelson (Longitude Solutions) - Increasing longevity investment opportunities for capital markets investors
- Leendert van Gastel (Solvency Supervisor, DNB) - Longevity risk mitigation from a supervisory perspective
Closing remarks
18:00