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General
Insurance Research Seminar
The Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies, at Nottingham University
Business School, presented some of its current research on general
insurance, at a seminar held at ABI offices on Thursday December 8th.
The papers are now available priced £15.00 each, please contact:
Mrs Jennifer Howis, Director's Secretary, Centre for Risk and Insurance
Studies, Room C5, The Business School, Jubilee Campus, Wollaton Road,
Nottingham, NG8 1BB. Or email Jennifer.howis@nottingham.ac.uk
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Aoife
Hanley was invited to speak at the OECD workshop on the Globalisation
of Production: Impacts on Employment, Productivity and Economic
Growth, Paris, 15-16 November 2005.
The
topic of the address was "Productivity effects of international
outsourcing: Evidence from plant level data" by Holger Görg, Aoife
Hanley and Eric Strobl.
The context for the address: A new OECD project on globalisation
and structural adjustment has been launched following the OECD Ministerial
Meeting in May 2005 and a considerable amount of work is underway
in the OECD's 2005-2006 Programme of Work and Budget. To help address
some of the major challenges in measurement and empirical analysis,
the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry (DSTI) organised
this workshop on globalisation.
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CRIS
has been commissioned by ABN AMRO for a research project into the
issues driving the closure of UK life insurance funds. [more]
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Stephen
Diacon and Chris O'Brien are making a presentation on "If
it didn't exist, you'd have to invent it: the economic value of general
insurance" at the Association of British Insurers conference on Familiarity
Breeds Contentment? Debating the role of general insurance. The conference
is on the morning of Friday 24th June, in London, and further details
and an application form can be found at www.abi.org.uk/Display/File/366/General_Insurance_Invite.pdf
Note that the conference is free, although places are limited.
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We
have published a survey on with-profit life insurance companies' realistic
balance sheets, please see [more]
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Mr
Ghulam Sorwar, who is a Lecturer in Accounting and Finance at
the Nottingham University Business School, has been appointed Research
Associate of CRIS.
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The
dates have been fixed for the 28th UK Insurance Economists' Conference,
for 2006: it will be held on the 29th and 30th March at Nottingham
University Business School.
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The
ABI has published the report on 'The Economic Value of General
Insurance', by Stephen Diacon, Chris O'Brien and Adam Blake. The
report, and appendices, can be read at http://www.abi.org.uk/generalinsurance/
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We
have today, Monday 14th March 2005, issued a research report
"How long do people expect to live? Results and implications."
The research was carried out with the assistance of funding from the
Actuarial Profession. [more]
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Professor
Leigh Drake will be a Visiting Professor in the Hong Kong Institute
for Monetary Research (HKIMR) in April. He will be working on a research
project analysing "The Efficiency and Performance of the Hong Kong
Banking System".
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Professor
Stephen Diacon will be making a presentation on “The economic
value of general insurance” at the ABI Conference 2005 “Building a
stronger future creating security in a risky world”, to be held at
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre, Westminster, on 9th March. He
will also be introducing a CRIS report for ABI on this subject. Please
see http://www.abi.org.uk/Conference2005/
for further
details.
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The
first International Conference on Longevity Risk and Capital Market
Solutions was staged successfully, at Cass Business School, on
18th February. Copies of the presentations are available on http://www.pensions-institute.org
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