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Communicating Investment Risk- a report from the SAI Working Party As the range of products and fund types increases at an exponential rate, consumers have struggled to keep up with the risks associated with the products being offered.  The financial …

Hot Topics 2009/2010 This paper presents the 'hot topics' from each of the four main practise areas of Life, Investments, Pensions and General Insurance.   To access Podcast please contact the Society:  info@actuaries.ie   General Insurance Life Assurance …

Regulations in General Insurance – Everything you wanted to know…but were afraid to ask! This meeting is part of a series of 3 meetings on Regulation, organised by the Recent Qualifiers Committee.  A meeting on Regulations in Life Insurance will take …

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 …

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 …

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 …