Longevity 18 Programme

Registration and  Refreshments

Plenary Session 1 - Ageing and Health

• Professor Richard Faragher (Brighton University)  –  The dam has broken: What does the new science of ageing mean for the pension risk transfer market
• Baroness Professor Susan Greenfield, CBE (Founder and CEO of Neuro-Bio Ltd) – A disruptive approach to Alzheimer’s disease
• Professor Les Mayhew (Bayes Business School) –  Longevity and the economic value of healthy ageing.
• Professor S. Jay Olshansky (University of Illinois at Chicago) - Plausibility of Radical Life Extension in Humans.

Parallel Session  I

Parallel Session II

Plenary Session 2 - Pension de-risking sets new records, while alternative capital finds its stride

• Rohit Mathur (Prudential Financial) – Riding the swell: De-risking accelerates as the pension endgame comes into view
• Kirsty Maclean (Willkie) – Accounting and regulatory update
• Amy Kessler (Prudential Financial) – From Nascency to Maturity – Rising interest rates and volatile markets show that alternative capital in the life and annuity sector may be here to stay

Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner

Sponsored by Prudential

Plenary Session 3 - Longevity Issues

• Eve Elisabeth Titon (Milliman) – The impact of climate change on mortality
• Patrick Cheung or A N Other (RGA Re) – TBC
• Cord-Roland Rinke (Hannover Re) – Live and let marry (about relevant assumptions for second lives – proportion married, age differences, mortality, etc)
• Paul Kitson (Ernst & Young) – How might the changing attitudes to buy-out and buy-in in the UK change the shape of the longevity reinsurance market - including views on how Solvency II moving to Solvency UK may change how UK BPA providers use longevity reinsurance

C O F F E E    B R E A K  -  Sponsored by  Prudential

Parallel Session III

Parallel Session IV

Plenary Session 4 - How the longevity risk transfer market will evolve

• Avery Michaelson (Longitude Exchange)
• Douglas Anderson (Club Vita)

Closing Remarks