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General Insurance Executive Briefing 2008: Agenda

Staying focused on your business in an increasingly regulated world

...a much-needed antidote to the deluge of
Solvency II information facing insurance executives today

Tuesday 8th July 2008 (half-day)
The Clarion Hotel, IFSC, Dublin


Agenda

08.30 Registration & light breakfast
   
09.00 Chairman's welcome
  Declan Lavelle, Partner, Lane Clark and Peacock Ireland Ltd
   
  Staying focused
Andrew Cox, Partner, Lane Clark and Peacock LLP
  The competitive pressures of running a successful insurance business are as strong as ever, but management agendas are increasingly filled with regulatory issues, leaving too little time for strategic thinking. However, with Solvency II not about to go away, how can you get genuine business value from the process?

This session describes the mindset that insurance managers need to adopt to make regulatory capital modelling a competitive opportunity rather than a crippling overhead.
   
  Reserving uncertainty - the Emperor's new boots
Joe Monk, Partner, Lane Clark and Peacock LLP
  Reserving is the most financially significant function for an insurer. Reserving risk is also often the most significant component of a risk based capital assessment, and will continue to be so under Solvency II. Given this importance, it is surprising how little the mainstream reserving methods have evolved. Each year, billions of euros of reserves are set using methods that are increasingly out of line with developments in information technology and risk management.

This session shows how the analysis can be performed using techniques that make better use of the available data, giving better management insight and more valuable feedback into the underwriting process.

10.30 Break
   
11.00 Flying by instruments - an effective approach to managing new accounts
  Rob Murray, Partner, Lane Clark and Peacock LLP
  This session provides a look at a new relative exposure based methodology for claims and reserves modelling.

This method of claims modelling can be used alongside traditional development factor modelling to gain greater insights into a portfolio of business, or it can be used as a stand alone method particularly suited to newer accounts with limited historic claims data.

The session also provides case studies exploring the use of this approach in the development of a reserving "early warning system".

  Learning to love your model - but not too much
Charl Cronje, Partner, Lane Clark and Peacock LLP
  Actuarial modelling will continue to play a big role in the strategy of any insurance business going forward. This session aims to debunk some modelling myths and to explain how you can get the best out of your actuaries.
   
12.30 Chairman's closing remarks
  Declan Lavelle, Partner, Lane Clark and Peacock Ireland Ltd
   
12.45 Sandwich lunch
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