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wellinghall ([personal profile] wellinghall) wrote2007-11-14 05:58 pm
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Manchester life convention

Plenary sessions:
Principles Based Regulation and its Effect on Actuaries and our Customers
Commercial Skills
Retail Distribution Review
The Changing Role of the Life Actuary - From Function Holder to Strategic Risk and Capital Manager

Breakout sessions / workshops:
Excess Mortality from Influenza Pandemics
Working Party Session - Actuarial Processes and Controls - Best Practice
The Winds of Change (the Implications of Climate Change to Business Performance)
Yield Curves Revisited
The Longevity Revolution

[identity profile] muuranker.livejournal.com 2007-11-15 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
I just realised that English describes insurance in (at least) two ways.

Sometimes, we describe what is being insured:
Car insurance. Home and Contents insurance. Pet insurance. Life insurance.

Sometimes, we describe the event that is being insured against:
Fire insurance. Bad weather insurance. Death insurance.


[identity profile] wellinghall.livejournal.com 2007-11-15 01:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Indeed.

It is possible to buy "life insurance" in the second sense - it is called an annuity, or more colloquially a pension. It carries on paying out as long as you live, even if that is to 120.