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Below are our currently scheduled appearances on the topic of longevity risk, mortality and annuities. Topical items can be found in our blog.

2008	Organisation	Title	Venue	Further information
Friday, 5th December 2008, 10:35hrs	Actuarial Profession	Postcode ratings for mortality	Hilton Berlin, Mohrenstrasse 30, 10117 Berlin, Germany	The presentation shows how to use postcodes in mortality modelling...and how not to do it! We also show why survival models are ideally suited to risk modelling, and how they give fascinating insights into patterns of mortality through time.

Friday, 5th December 2008	Longevitas Ltd	Demonstrations of Longevitas and mortalityrating.com	London	We will be in London demonstrating our tools for analysing mortality, longevity and other risks. If you would like a meeting, please contact us.

10th December 2008, late morning	Westminster and City	Postcode ratings for mortality	Churchill Hotel, London	We discuss how to use postcodes in rating annuitants for lifestyle. More importantly, we show why some seemingly intuitive approaches can be disasterously wrong. We illustrate our points with actual life-office data. More details here.

2009	Organisation	Title	Venue	Further information
16th February 2009	Faculty of Actuaries	Assessing longevity risk and annuity pricing with the Lee-Carter model	Edinburgh	Several important classes of liability are sensitive to the direction of future mortality trends. This paper demonstrates some recent developments in fitting smooth models to historical mortality-experience data, the impact these models have on mortality projections and the resulting financial impact these projections have on financial products. We base our work round the Lee-Carter family of models.

April 2009	Royal Statistical Society	Postcode ratings for mortality	Edinburgh	To follow...

21st and 22nd October 2009	The Actuarial Profession	Drivers of change	Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh	Two-day conference on mortality.

2008 presentations

"Postcode rating for mortality" (2008) by Richards, S. J., To be presented to Momentum Convention in Berlin on 5th December 2008. Preview version available to licence-holders of our software

"Predictive modelling: identifying and managing persistency risk" (2008) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Life Convention in Amsterdam on 10th November 2008. Download

"Modelling mortality risk" (2008) by Richards, S. J., Presented to KPMG's Solvency II Internal Models Practitioner Working Group on 2nd September 2008. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Actuarial developments in longevity risk" (2008) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Xafinity CPD event, Novotel St Pancras, London, 21st April 2008. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"What your postcode says about your longevity" (2008) by Richards, S. J., Presented to a Joint Pensions Board and Life Board CPD Event, Edinburgh, 8th April 2008. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Longevity risk" (2008) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Heriot-Watt Student Actuarial Society, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 27th February 2008. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Applying survival models to pensioner mortality data" (2008) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Institute of Actuaries, Staple Inn, London, 25th February 2008. Download

"Applying survival models to pensioner mortality" (2008) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 11th January 2008. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

2007 presentations

"Managing longevity risk" (2007) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Younger Members' Convention, Birmingham, 4th December 2007. Download

"Securitizing longevity risk" (2007) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Westminster and City Conference on Longevity and Capital Markets, London, on 10th October 2007. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Setting baseline mortality rates" (2007) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Longevity Forum hosted by the Pensions Regulator, London, on 17th September 2007. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Longevity risk" (2007) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Institutional Investor seminar, UK Pension Fund Roundtable, Hanbury Manor, Herts, on 28th June 2007. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Pricing longevity risk and the cost of buyouts" (2007) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Westminster and City Buy-Out Conference, London on 21st March 2007. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Longevity --- risk and opportunity" (2007) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Younger Members Meeting, Edinburgh on 20th February 2007. Download

2006 presentations

"Longevity --- risk and opportunity" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Younger Members Convention, St Andrews on 4th December 2006. Download

"Understanding Longevity Risk" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presentation to Buck consultants CPD event on 28th November 2006. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Pricing Longevity Risk" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presentation to Entegria consultants CPD event on 8th September 2006. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Pricing Longevity Risk" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presentation to Legal and General CPD event on 25th August 2006. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"UK Buy-Out Market" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presentation to Gerson Lehrman clients on 24th August 2006. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Pricing longevity risk" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presented to conference on restructuring of longevity risk in London on July 11th 2006. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Longevity --- the hidden risk" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presentated to Pensions Convention, St. Andrews on June 6th 2006. Download

"Longevity --- risk and opportunity" (2006) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Life Convention, Glasgow SECC on 6th November 2006, and again in London on 7th March 2007. Download

Older presentations

"Pricing longevity risk" (2005) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Westminster and City annuity conference, December 1st 2005. Available free to licence-holders of our software products.

"Longevity risk" (2005) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Faculty of Actuaries Students Society, October 10th 2005. Download

"Longevity risk in the U.K." (2005) by Richards, S. J., Presented to University of Ulm, July 20th 2005. Download

"Mortality differentials and annuity business" (2004) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Life Convention at EICC, Edinburgh on November 8th 2004. Download

"Financial importance of mortality forecasting" (2004) by Richards, S. J., Presented at Lee-Carter workshop hosted by Heriot-Watt University and CMIB at ICMS in Edinburgh, September 23rd 2004. Download

"Annuitant mortality and longevity risk" (2003) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Younger Members' Convention at Moat House Hotel, Glasgow on December 1st 2003. Download

"Annuitant mortality and longevity risk" (2003) by Richards, S. J., Presented to Life Convention at Hilton Metropole Hotel, Birmingham on November 11th 2003. Download