Examining your pension plan’s longevity risk and the range of strategies to reduce it
For pension custodians these are perilous times. While some work has been done on quantifying investment, inflation and interest risk – pension schemes have not, to date, had the tools to analyse the risk, nor the solutions to manage the cost of its members living longer that expected.
The European De-Risking Longevity Forum has been designed to bring together the experts in this market from early adopters of the new longevity solutions to naysayers and those that challenge assumption of an ever increasing life expectancy.
At the European De-Risking Longevity Forum 2010 you will:
*Hear the arguments for and against increased life expectancy – and how it will affect your plan
*Find out how schemes can prepare to quantify their risks
*Learn which alternative de-risking strategies are available to your schemes
*Gain insight into the legal complexity that each bespoke deal is likely to bring
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29 November 2010 15.00 – 17.00 Chesterfield Hotel Mayfair, London
Having worked on a number of longevity hedging transactions including the recent £1.3 bn BA deal with Lucida, Paul Kitson,
Senior Consultant, Towers Watson will lead an interactive workshop that will look at some of the science behind longevity
swaps and include some of the lessons learnt from actual transactions.
The essential guide to longevity swaps – how they work and who invests in them
• The mechanics of a longevity swap - how do they work in practice?
• Who is on the other side of the trade?
- Examining who is taking longevity risk from pension schemes
- Where does the risk end up?
- What kinds of investors have an appetite for longevity products?
• The future of the longevity swap market - what is the capacity for longevity swap hedging now and
and what is it likely to be in the future
• Other factors that will change the market
Paul Kitson is a senior consultant with 10 years experience advising a range of UK pension schemes and their
corporate sponsors. Over the last 5 years Paul has specialised in advising corporate sponsors and UK pension
scheme Trustees on derisking and transferring liability to counter-parties. In 2009 Paul led the Merchant Navy
Officers Pension Fund (a multi billion industry wide UK pension fund) £500m buy-in with Lucida (the specialist
insurance company) and recently led the £1.3bn British Airways synthetic buy-in with Rothesay Life (the
insurance subsidiary of Goldman Sachs). Paul has also been actively involved in a number of other risk transfer
projects including advising on longevity hedging strategies, enhanced transfer value exercises and pension
increase exchange exercises.
+44 (0)20 7368 9300 or 0800 652 2363 www.EuropeanLongevityRisk.com enquire@iqpc.co.uk
3. conFErEncE agEnDa
30 November 2010, Chesterfield Hotel Mayfair, London
08:30-09:00 13.45-14.30
registration and coffee panEL iii getting what you pay for: is hedging
longevity right for your plan?
09:00-09:05 • So far, what are the real costs of a longevity creep?
chairman’s opening remarks • When is hedging longevity the wrong option for your pension plan?
• Stumbling blocks: Bad data, cost and pricing
• Risk versus reward – lessons from the early adopters
09.05-09:30 • Who is best qualified to advise on hedging longevity?
keynote Debate: is the upward trend in life David Collinson, Head of Origination, Pension Corporation
expectancy likely to continue indefinitely? Andrew Gaches, Longevity Consultant, Club Vita
Moderator: Liam Kennedy, Editor, IPE Andrew Warring, Chief Executive, Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund
For: Kenneth Howse, Senior Research Fellow,
Oxford Institute of Aging 14.30-15:15
Against: Andrew Coburn, Vice President. panel iv Longevity swaps: a product whose time
Life & Health Risk Research, RMS has come?
• How can longevity swaps be used as part of a sponsor’s
09.30-10:30 broader de-risking agenda?
panEL i pension plan de-risking post crisis: what is • Do the current pricing models work – why aren’t they
needed, better controls or a paradigm shift? more transparent?
• Risk management in pensions – how has the financial crisis • Expensive exits – what is the solution?
affected risk mitigation strategies • Swaps versus other longevity hedging products
• Determining which risks are being targeted for hedging: • Will the markets be able to provide a commoditised solution
Inflation, nominal rates, real rates, longevity? in the future?
• Trustee education • Securitising longevity risk – is a liquid longevity market really
• In the current climate is there an appetite to address longevity likely in the near future?
as a separate exercise? Martin Bird, Principal and UK Lead, Hewitt Associates
Moderator: Liam Kennedy, Editor, IPE Robert Gardner, Co-Chief Executive, Redington Partners
Speakers: Steven Robson, Head of Pensions, United Utilities Group Cord-Roland Rinke, Associate Director, Hannover Re
Brian Radford, Pension Fund Manager, Alstom*
Jeremy Williams, Head of Pensions, Daily Mail and General Trust 15.15-15.45
Alan Pickering, Chairman, BESTrustees networking coffee break
Sarah Smart, Chair of Trustees, The Pensions Trust
*pending confirmation
15.45-16.30
10.30-11.00 challenges of negotiating complexity in
networking coffee break longevity deals
• Dispute resolution and payback mechanisms
11.00-11.25 • Compliance with data protection and monitoring
• Eventualities of termination of contract and defaults
managing Longevity risks through LDi • Regulatory developments – pensions law
• How can LDI be implemented to include a mortality risk overlay?
• How will longevity risk sit alongside hedging liabilities in inflation
and interest rate risk 16.30-17.15
Andrew Neilan, Trustee Director, Friends Provident Pension Scheme panel v controlling counter-party risk: Lessons from
Lehman and beyond
11.20-11.45 • Structuring security and collateral arrangements
• Is dealing with banks riskier than the insurance markets?
getting an insurance industry perspective • Best practices for controlling counterparty risks
solvency ii and its impact on hedging activities Paul Kitson, Senior consultant, Towers Watson
• Analysing the impact of regulatory change, including Solvency II
• What are the key issues that will arise for annuity writers?
• How will the changes in retirement age affect the sector? 17.15-17.30
Rebecca Driver, Chief Economist, Association of British Insurers chairman’s closing remarks - End of the conference
11:50-12:45 sponsorship opportunitiEs
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