09:00

Welcome and introduction (15min)

Arthur Els

Welcome and introduction (15min)

Paul la Cock

Welcome and introduction (15min)

Gary Palser

09:15

Impact of global economic turmoil on the retirement fund industry (3x 40min)

Chair: Corné Heymans

Long-term sustainability of medical schemes (60min)

Christoff Raath
Chair: Paul la Cock

Internal Models: Financial Services Board (FSB) feedback on current developments (60min)

Hantie van Heerden
Chair: Gary Palser

The facts: how much real damage was caused and how much more bad news do we need to prepare for? (40min)

Ant Lester

Research on Risk-Based Capital (60min)

Ashleigh Theophanides
Chair: Emile Stipp

International Accounting Standards (IAS) developments: update (30min)

Gary Voss
Chair: Jeff Hubbard

An international perspective: the double blow to members and employers when the company and its funds are experiencing difficult times (40min)

Tommie Doubell

Market-consistent liabilities (30min)

David Jewell
Chair: Jeff Hubbard

The consulting perspective: how will these major developments impact on the advice given to funds? (40min)

John Anderson

11:45

Retirement fund reform for dummies (70min)

David Gluckman
Chair: Krishen Sukdev

Practice cost study submissions for National Health Reference Price List (NHRPL): methodology and issues (45min)

Alex Brownlee
Chair: Willem Claasen

Market-consistent embedded values (45min)

David Kirk
Chair: Gary Palser

What do pensions actuaries require from Professional Guidance Notes? (20min)

Roy Lennox
Chair: Rowan Burger

A brief on the updated medical component of the consumer price index (CPI) (45min)

Patrick Kelly
Chair: Margaret Hulme

Are market-consistent techniques actually market-consistent? (45min)

David Jewell and Mark Salmon
Chair: Gary Palser

14:30

Managing agency risk in defined contribution retirement funds (60min)

Mickey Lowther and Jonathan Mort
Chair: Mike Codron

Investigating private hospital capacity in South Africa (60min)

Barry Childs
Chair: Lara Wayburne

Lessons from life insurers who have got into difficulty (60min)

Gary Palser
Chair: Andy Rayner

16:00

The devil is in the detail: technical matters arising from the decision on defined benefit vs defined contribution national pension scheme (60min)

Colin Dutkiewicz, Andrew Gladwin, Stanley Bisho, Roger Birt and Carolyn Clark
Chair: Natasha Huggett-Henchie

The impact of the sequential implementation of complex healthcare financing reforms (90min)
Impact of Sequencing of Reforms vF (Excel presentation)

Heather McLeod and Pieter Grobler
Chair: Helen Riding

Enterprise Risk Management in the life insurance industry: panel discussion (90min)

Cobus Fourie, Kallie Kotze, Theo Estie and Anthony Bice
Chair: Andre Zeeman

Update from the Retirement Matters Committee (30min)

Arthur Els

17:30

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11:00

Professionalism issues (45min)

Andrew Warren
Chair: Christo Geyer

A brief on the updated medical component of the consumer price index (CPI) (45min)

Patrick Kelly
Chair: Ashleigh Theophanides

11:45

The lights are on but no one is at home (45min)

JP Andrew
Chair: TBC

Update from the Regulator: Council for Medical Schemes (45min)

Thulani Matsebula
Chair: Ashleigh Theophanides

13:30

The arbitrage-free equilibrium pricing of liabilities in an incomplete market: application to a South African retirement fund (60min)

RJ Thomson
Chair: Abubakar Addae

Defined contribution and age-related risk benefits: the equitable myth (60min)

Neil Parkin and Vivek Moodley
Chair: Eric Welz

16:30

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