| Thursday,
30 October 2008 |
|
08:00
- 09:00
|
Registration
of participants |
|
09:00 - 9:30
|
Opening remarks:
|
Ibrahim
Muhanna
Chairman, Board of Trustees
The Muhanna Foundation
Lebanon
Yannick D'Haene
Director, Social Security Observatory
ISSA, Geneva
H.E.
Ms. Sotiroula Charalambous
Minister of Labour and Social Insurance
Cyprus
|
|
9:30
- 10:30
|
Theme
1: Social security issues in Cyprus |
| Keynote
speaker: |
Best practices and lessons learnt
Theophanis Tryfonos
Director General
Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance
Cyprus |
|
10:30
- 10:45
|
Coffee
Break - Hosted by:Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance
Cyprus
|
|
10:45
- 12:45
|
Theme
2: Optimal pension financing |
| Main
Report: |
Optimal
financing of social security pension schemes
Yves Guérard
Secretary General
International Actuarial Association (IAA)
Ottawa, Canada |
| Discussant: |
To
fund or not to fund: Is there risk involved in funding?
Jean-Claude Ménard
Chief Actuary - Office of the Chief Actuary
Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions
Chairperson, ISSA Technical Commission on Statistical, Actuarial
and Financial Studies
Canada |
| 13:00
- 14:30 |
Lunch
at Kalypso Restaurant, Amathus Hotel - Hosted by:
The Muhanna Foundation |
|
14:30
- 16:20
|
Theme
3: Optimal financing of social security pension schemes and
its design |
| Reporters:
|
Competing
views of social security pension design and its impact on
financing
Rob Brown
Professor
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
University of Waterloo
Chairman, International Actuarial Association (IAA) Social
Security Committee
Canada
Defining
meaningful information to assess the financial status of social
security pension schemes
Ole Settergren
Chief Secretary in the Governments Commission to start a unified
pension agency
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs
Sweden
|
| Discussant:
|
Views
on financing Social Security programs
Alice H. Wade
Deputy Chief Actuary, Long Range
Office of the Chief Actuary
Social Security Administration
United States |
| 16:20
- 16:35 |
Coffee
Break - Hosted by:
Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance Cyprus |
| 16:35
- 17:30 |
Optimal
pension PAYGO Financial Sustainability by Design: The Sustainable
Internal Rate of Return and the Associated Indexation / Revalorization
Mechanisms
András Bodor
Economist
Human Development Group in the Middle East and North Africa
region
World Bank
Hungary |
| 19:30
- 21:30 |
Reception
at the Amathus - Hosted by:
Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance Cyprus |
|
Friday, 31 October 2008 |
| 09:15
- 12:30 |
Theme
4: Financing of pension schemes |
| Main
report: |
The
experience in African countries
Giovanna Ferrara
Consulting Actuary for Africa
Member of Istituto Italiano degli Attuari
Italy
|
| National
experiences: |
Experience
of the United Kingdom
Chris Daykin
Independent Consultant and Actuary
United Kingdom
Longevity
is increasing - What about retirement age?
Christina Lindell
Head of Planning Department
Finnish Centre for Pensions
Finland
|
|
10:30
- 10:45
|
Coffee
Break - Hosted by:
Ministry of Labour and Social Insurance Cyprus |
Actuarial
analysis of optimal financing of mandatory pension insurance
scheme in Russia
Alexander Kurtin
First Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors
Pension Fund of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Financing
of pension scheme
George Psaras
Managing Actuary for Pensions and Social Insurance
i.e. Muhanna & co Actuarial Services
Cyprus |
| 12:30
- 13:00 |
Concluding
remarks: |
Ibrahim
Muhanna
Chairman, Board of Trustees
The Muhanna Foundation
Vice-Chairperson of the ISSA Technical Commission on Statistical,
Actuarial and Financial Studies
Lebanon |
|
15:00
- 16:30
|
Meeting
of the Steering Committee of the Technical Commission on Statistical,
Actuarial and Financial Studies
|
TECHNICAL SEMINAR FOR SOCIAL SECURITY ACTUARIES AND STATISTICIANS.