Programme Overview

(Last modification: 10 July 2003)

 

 

1.      Asset Liability Management (15 lecture hours: 7, 8, 9 July)

First 12 hours: Lesław Gajek (Technical University of Łódź)

-         Duration

-         Cash flow matching

-         Default-free term structure models

-         Mortgage-backed securities

-         Corporate and municipal bond models

-         Estimation and calibration of models

-         Data problems and solutions

-         Cash-flow/stress testing

-         Value at Risk (VaR).

Last 3 hours (9 July): Wolfgang Hoffmann & Aleksander Rejman (Tillinghast – Towers Perrin)

-         Use and purpose of ALM in European life companies

-         Current trends in ALM in Europe

-         Case studies

-         Implementation issues

 

2.      Embedded Value and Profit Testing (10 lecture hours: 10, 11 July)

Wolfgang Hoffmann & Aleksander Rejman (Tillinghast – Towers Perrin, Germany)

-     Embedded Value and value added analysis

-         Components

-         Assumptions

-         Methodology

-         Practical issues

-         Internal and external uses

-         Published embedded values

-         examples and case studies

-         Limitations and enhancements

-         Economic/fair values and market consistent valuations

-         Practical examples and exercises

 

 

3.      Accounting and reporting (10 lecture hours: 14, 18 July)

Dominik Januszewski, Jakub Wysoczański & Marcin Dymek (Ernst & Young Polska)

-    Accounting standards and their comparison (Local Accounting Standards, IAS, US GAAP),

-         Main principles of Accounting

-         Main principles of Insurance Companies Accounting

-         Acquisition and claim handling costs in life and non-life insurance

-         Principles of Asset pricing

-         Types of reinsurance and reinsurance accounting

 

4.      Statistical Methods in Ratemaking and Reserving, with emphasis on reserving (15 lecture hours: 15, 16, 17 July)

Richard J. Verrall (City University, UK)

-         Stochastic reserving

-         Generalised Linear Models

-         Other methods

-         Premium rating

-         Bootstrapping

-         Bayesian methods

-         Other approaches (incl. GAM)

 

 

5.      3 – 4 Evening Seminars:

 

9 July: Asset Liability Modelling in MoSes

Adam Tyrer (Tillinghast – Towers Perrin)

 

 

16 July: Pricing Forward-start Options in the HJM Framework. Evidence from the Polish Market

            Piotr Sztuba, Aleksander Weron (Wrocław Technical University)

 

 

Daily schedule:

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Break

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

Lecture 5

Ev. Semin.

830 – 920

930 – 1020

1020 – 1050

1050 – 1140

1150 – 1240

1250 – 1340

1700 - 1800

 

 

Programme Committee:

Dr Piotr Szlenk – (Chairman), Polish Society of Actuaries

Michał Górski, Polish Society of Actuaries

Dr Wojciech Otto, Warsaw University & Polish Society of Actuaries

Prof. Marian Wiśniewski, Warsaw University & Polish Society of Actuaries