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Investing in insurance assets - how investors can access the insurance risk premium In the twenty years since the issuance of the first catastrophe bond, the non-life reinsurance market has increasingly found ways to pass catastrophe reinsurance risk …

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 …

Are we living in a Big Bond Bubble? Talk 1 in the Bubble Series More and more pension investments are moving into fixed interest asset class due to desire to de-risk and regulatory pressure to match liabilities. But what value do  bonds offer at current …

Non-life Insurance Technical Provisions Prediction Errors : ‘Ultimo’ and One-year perspectives Assessing the uncertainty in reserve estimates has become an increasingly important requirement of reserving actuaries’ work.  Ideally this will involve a …

Operation of Treasury Centres The meeting will provide an overview of the capital structure of a large multi-national, and the primary role and functions of the Treasury team therein, including; Capital structure management Financial risk management …

Common Mistakes in Variable Annuity Hedging Programs: Hedge to what? What to hedge? The speaker will discuss some common mistakes VA writers made on their hedging programs (based on an informal survey of industry practitioners and own experience). In …

Perspectives on Cash/Liquidity Management in today’s low yield environment As part of a team managing over €300bn in cash assets, David will provide insight and perspective on the challenges facing cash investors in the current environment of low-yields, …

A Benchmark Approach to Investing, Pricing and Hedging Your attention is drawn to a Seminar on “A Benchmark Approach to Investing, Pricing and Hedging” which is being organised in Vienna on 29-30 April through the Austrian association.  Details are …

Emerging markets – a diverging outlook While emerging market growth continue to advance in aggregate. recent oil movements and geopolitical events have highlighted the diverging paths of individual emerging market economies. Som Bhattacharya, emerging …

A Review of Retirement Income choices available from Irish DC pensions Earlier this year, a Working Party was set up to consider ARFs, AMRFs and annuities in more detail. The scope of the work was to review and draft a discussion paper setting out …

Practising Certificates for Head of Actuarial Function & Reviewing Actuary for 2016 Council has issued, for consultation, proposals regarding practising certificates for the roles of Head of Actuarial Function and Reviewing Actuary under Solvency II.  The …