Draft Agenda - APEC Pensions & Annuities Markets 8-9 Nov 2007 - Singapore

Section One: Introduction and Welcome

• Dr Alberto R. Musalem
  Chief Economist
  Centre for Financial Stability

Section Two: Governance, accountability and the investment policy of pension funds

• “Governance, Accountability, and Investment Policy”
  Mr Bruce Pflaum
  Managing Director Asia, Russell Investments
• “Governance and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund”
  Dr Brian McCulloch
  Director, New Zealand Treasury

• “Pension Fund Governance in Latin American Countries”
  Solange Bernstein
  Chilean Superintendent of Pension Fund Administrators
• “Investment Policies of Private Mandated Pension Funds”
  Hermant Shah
  Deputy Division Chief IMF

Section Three: Governance of the life insurance industry

• “Governance of the Life Insurance Industry”
  Mr Lawrie Savage
  President LS&A
• “How Opaque is the Life Insurance Industry”
  Mr Chris Daykin

Section Four: Risk based supervision: Insurance companies and Pension Funds

• ”Risk Based Supervision- the Canadian Experience”
  Lawrie Savage
  President LS&A
• ”the Australian Risk Assessment Framework”
  APRA Australia

Section Five: Developing the market for retirement products

• “the Annuity Market in the United Kingdom”
  Mr Chris Daykin
• “The Annuity Market in Australia”
  Professor John Piggott
  University of New South Wales

• “Annuity Market in Developing Countries”
  Roberto Rocha
  The World Bank
• “Developing Annuity markets in Chile”
  Solange Bernstein
  Chilean Superintendent of Pension Fund Administrators

Section Six: Assessing the solvency of annuity companies

• "Managing assets to support annuity guarantees"
  Douglas Fore
  Director of Analytics, TIAA-CREF Investment Management