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NEW ACTUARIAL TOPICS IN LONGEVITY AND TRANSFER OF RISKS

Thursday, November 9, 2006

Friday, November 10, 2006


The Institute of actuarial sciences of the UCL announces a two-days workshop on longevity, securitization and transfer of risks.

Presentations will be made by international experts, including :


  • Dr. Pauline Barrieu, LSE, London
  • Dr. Enrico Biffis, City University, London
  • Professor Andrew Cairns, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
  • Professor Steve Haberman, City University, London

The participation is totally free.


This meeting will take place in the « room C.115 » Institut de Statistique , rue des Wallons, 6, located in Louvain-la-Neuve.



Program

Thursday, November 9, 2006
10.00 Andrew Cairns, Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh
Models for Stochastic Mortality with Parameter Uncertainty.
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Jérôme Barbarin, ACTU-UCL
General risk minimizing hedging strategies for insurance contracts with longevity risk.
12.30 Lunch
14.30 Pauline Barrieu, LSE, London
On Pareto-optimal allocations for multi-period risks (joint work with G. Scandolo).
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Enrico Biffis, City University, London
Longevity: is there an option?
Friday, November 10, 2006
10.00 Brenda López Cabrera, Institute for Statistics and Econometrics Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin
Pricing CAT bonds for earthquakes in Mexico.
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Donatien Hainaut, ACTU-UCL
Stochastic mortality with nongaussian OU models.
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