News in brief
Book now for FIRM
This year’s Finance, Investment, and Risk Management Conference, 15-17 June in Manchester, will include sessions on liquidity risk and the credit crunch, pension financing options, and complexity economics. For more details, please visit www.actuaries.org.uk/files/pdf/cpd/firm2008.pdf. To book a place, please visit wam.actuaries.org.uk/wam/confbooking.exe .
BAS discussion paper
On 28 March, the Board for Actuarial Standards (BAS) published a Discussion Paper on Actuarial Mortality Assumptions. The discussion paper presents the results of a review that BAS has conducted into the mortality assumptions used in actuarial calculations, looking at the evidence on which the assumptions are based, the methods of deriving them, and how information about them should be communicated. The consultation period for the discussion paper ends on 20 June 2008. For the full press release, visit www.frc.org.uk/bas/press/pub1559.html, or to download a copy of the paper, visit ww.frc.org.uk/bas/publications/consultation.cfm
Life issues seminar
The next Current Issues in Life Assurance (CILA) seminar, 30 May at the Royal College of Physicians in London, promises lively discussion and thought-provoking presentations. Aimed at senior life assurance actuaries and their advisers, the seminar will be of interest to all who work in, or advise on, the life assurance market in the UK and Ireland.
Workshops include: Solvency II/ IASB Phase II, claims assesment, alternative sources of capital, the UK capital regime.
For more details, please visit www.actuaries.org.uk/files/pdf/cpd/cila20080530.pdf. To book a place, please visit wam.actuaries.org.uk/wam/confbooking.exees.
