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UL Guarantees The paper will cover: Assessment of Risks and Risk Mitigation of Unit Linked Guarantees with a primary focus on Variable Annuities Specifically looking at the primary challenges of risk replication covering transaction, funding and …

Possible Unintended Consequences of Basel III and Solvency II Malcolm Kemp and Padraic O’Malley, members of the International Monitory Funds’ Working Party that produced this paper, will present it to the Society on 12th June.   The paper is now attached. …

Capital Management in a Solvency II World In this presentation, we will focus on ways in which insurers and reinsurers may optimise capital under Solvency II and take you through some of the challenges and opportunities that the new regime may present …

Unit Pricing: Practices and Governance A presentation by the Unit Pricing Working Party discussing the results of a survey of life companies and the current practices and trends in the administration of life company unit funds in Ireland.   To access …

Hedging Variable Annuities Using a simple example of a Put Option, this paper explores such matters as the significance of Realised Volatility risk, Underlying Volatility risk and choice of hedged formula on the effectiveness of applying a hedging …

Target-Risk Equity Funds Target-Risk Equity Funds have significant applications in: (i) the investment and risk management of DB and DC pension plans; (ii) reducing the volatility of multi-asset portfolios; (iii) managing the market risk of equity …