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Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre

Insurance Risk and Finance
Research Conference 2014

Thursday, 26th June 2014
Goodwood Park Hotel, Singapore

Programme

Venue: Goodwood Park Hotel, Singapore
Date:
26th June 2014
Time: 8am - 6pm

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Time Presentation
8:00 Registration from 8:00 am at 2nd level, Windsor Ballroom
Session 1
Chair: Andreas Milidonis
8:45

Opening Remarks

Ravi Kumar, Shaw Chair Professor and Dean, Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
9:00 - 9:45

Robust Hedging of Longevity Risk

Andrew Cairns, Professor of Financial Mathematics, Heriot-Watt University
9:45 - 10:30

Alternative Reinsurance Structures

Morton Lane, President of Lane Financial LLC
10:30 - 11:00
Tea Break
Session 2
Chair: Andreas Milidonis
11:00 - 11:30

Does One Size Fit All? Determinants of Insurer Capital Structure Around the Globe

Sabine Wende, University of Cologne
Co-authors: Muhammed Altuntas, University of Cologne; Thomas R. Berry-Stölzle, University of Georgia
11:30 - 12:00

Directors' and Officers' Liability Insurance and Corporate Risk-taking

Joon Ho Hwang, Korea University
Co-author: Byungmo Kim, Dankook University
12:00 - 12:30

Managing Capital and Insolvency Risk via Internal Capital Market Transactions: The Case of Life Insurers

Greg Niehaus, University of South Carolina
12:30 - 13:15
Lunch
13:15 - 14:00 Luncheon Keynote

The Progress of C-ROSS: the GI Story

John Donghui Chen, Chief Actuarial Officer, PICC Property and Casualty Co Ltd
 
Concurrent Session: Life
Chair: Michael Sherris
Venue: Hall 1
Concurrent Session: Non-Life
Chair: Shinichi Kamiya
Venue: Hall 2

14:15 – 14:45

Life Insurer Longevity Risk Management, Solvency and Shareholder Value

Michael Sherris, CEPAR, University of New South Wales
Co-authors:
Craig Blackburn, CEPAR, University of New South Wales;
Katja Hanewald, CEPAR, University of New South Wales;
Annamaria Olivieri, University of Parma

Catastrophes and Development of Non-life Insurance Market: A Cross-Country Analysis

Shinichi Kamiya, Nanyang Technological University

14:45 – 15:15

Multi-Population Mortality Models: A Factor Copula Approach

Hua Chen, Temple University
Co-authors:
Richard D. MacMinn, Illinois State University;
Tao Sun, Temple University

Optimum Mix across Financial and Reinsurance Markets: the Case of Catastrophe bonds

Jack S K Chang, California State University
Co-authors:
Carolyn W. Chang, California State University;
Min-Teh Yu, National Chiao Tung University

15:15 – 15:45

Bilateral Intergenerational Moral Hazard: Empirical Evidence from China

Xian Xu, Fudan University
Co-author:
Peter Zweifel, University of Zurich

Actuarial Geometry: Volumetric and Temporal Diversification of Insurance Risk

Stephen J. Mildenhall, Aon Analytics and Innovation Center
15:45 - 16:15
Tea Break
 
Concurrent Session: Life
Chair: Johnny Li
Venue: Hall 1
Concurrent Session: Non-Life
Chair: Rachel Huang
Venue: Hall 2

16:15 – 16:45

A Step-by-Step Guide to Building Two-Population Stochastic, Mortality Models

Johnny Siu-Hang Li, University of Waterloo
Co-Authors:
Rui Zhou, University of Manitoba;
Mary Hardy, University of Waterloo

Risk Benchmark Study, Non-life Insurance in China and India

Evan Leite, Risk Analyst, Risk Lighthouse LLC
Co-authors:
Yisi Lu Risk, Lighthouse LLC;
Zhou Terry Fang , Risk Lighthouse LLC

16:45 – 17:15

Closed-form Solutions for Guaranteed Minimum Accumulation Benefits

Mikhail Krayzler, Technische Universität München
Co-authors:
Rudi Zagst, Technische Universität München;
Bernhard Brunner, risklab

Generalized Almost Stochastic Dominance

Rachel J. Huang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Co-authors:
Ilia Tsetlin;Larry Y. Tzeng; Robert L. Winkler

17:15 – 17:45

A Bayesian Pricing of Longevity Derivatives with Mortality and Interest Rate Risks

Atsuyuki Kogure, Keio University
Co-author:
Takahiro Fushimi, Keio University

Loss Reserves and the Role of the Actuary: Independent or In-House?

Jiang Cheng, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Co-authors:
Mary A. Weiss, Temple University;
Tzuting Lin, National Taiwan University