4th PBSS Colloquium

October 5 (Mon)

9:30-10:30  Opening Ceremony    [Orion]

Organizer Speech

Mr. Kouichi Kojima

President of the JSCPA

PBSS Chairman's Speech

Mr. Christopher David Daykin

Chairman of the PBSS section

Guest Speech

Mr. Hiroshi Abe

Director Actuarial Affairs Division, Pension Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Mr. Katsumi Hikasa

President of the IAA

Key Theme 1. Social security and corporate pensions in Asia

Ai Ju Shao	Taiwan Old-Age Security Systems: Equity and Sustainability Implications
Stuart Hamilton Leckie	A Review of the National Social Security Fund in China
Subrahmanyam Kollimarla	PAPER ON THE SOCIAL SECURITY AND CORPORATE PENSIONS IN INDIA
David D. Moo	Retirement and Savings Plans in China
Nobuhiro Shimizu	Appropriate Structures and Mechanisms of Risk-Sharing in a Nursery Plan: Challenges for the Occupational Pension System of Japan

Key Theme 2. Accounting for post employment benefits

Yuzo Fujimoto	Considerations about the Definition of Post-employment Benefit Obligation
Ken Sugita	Issues with the Preliminary Views on Amendments to IAS 19 Employee Benefits

Key Theme 4. Investment of pension plan assets

Eric Ralaimiadana	The asset and management tool of a public agency
Arihiro Okamoto	The Point of Concern about the Implementation of Liability-Driven Investment (LDI) in a Pension Plan in Japan
Raimond Helmut Maurer	Extending Life Cycle Models of Optimal Portfolio Choice: Integrating Flexible Work, Endogenous Retirement, and Investment Decisions with Lifetime Payouts

October 6 (Tue)

9:00-12:30  Plenary Session 4  Pensions in Asia    [Orion]

9:00-10:30  Keynote Speech

Keynote Speakers

14:00-15:30  Parallel Session D1    [606]

Key Theme 3. Corporate (private) post employment benefits

Miki Arimori	The 2012 Issues in the Japanese Corporate Pension Plans
Satoshi Kojima	Challenge of Japanese Small and Mid-sized Companies' Pension Plans
Tomoyuki Okochi	Financial management and protection of eligibility in corporate pension in Japan

14:00-15:30  Parallel Session D2    [Orion]

Key Theme 3. Corporate (private) post employment benefits

Katsuhiro Yagura	Consideration of Converting to Company-Group DB Pension Plans
Takehiko Yokoyama Hidenobu Ishizawa Toshikazu Asami	Future prospects for Koseinenkinkikin, one type of Defined-benefit Employee Pension Fund in Japan
Jun Sasaki	The simulation of a deficiency on a plan termination basis in defined benefit pension plans

14:00-15:30  Parallel Session E1    [Subaru]

Key Theme 5. Social security

Carmen Boado-Penas	Models of the actuarial balance of pay-as-you-go pension systems: A review and some lessons
Seiichi Inagaki	Prospects of the Income Distribution for the Elderly in Japan - Effect of Proposals for Pension Reform -
Geoffrey David Rashbrooke	Simple, effective and (relatively) inexpensive: a view of New Zealand retirement income policy in an international context

16:00-17:30  Parallel Session D3    [606]

Key Theme 3. Corporate (private) post employment benefits

Yoshinori Ueta	Consideration of the structures and techniques of risk sharing in cash balance pension plans
Takeshige Ota	Cash Balance Pension Plan in Japan - Current Situation and Future -
Ignacio del Barco Martínez	FROM DEFINED BENEFITS TO DEFINED CONTRIBUTIONS IN SPAIN: AN EVALUATION OF THE LAST 20 YEARS. Are hybrid models the solution?

16:00-17:30  Parallel Session D4    [Orion]

Key Theme 3. Corporate (private) post employment benefits

Tsuyoshi Kasahara	A study of retirement benefit reductions
Takashi Ogawa Kenji Kusakabe Akihiro Nagakura	Trends in post-employment benefits in Japan and considering the way for more sustainable schemes
John Douglas Anderson	South Africa : Member Bevaviour Survey and Impact on Net Replacement Ratios

16:00-17:30  Parallel Session E2    [Subaru]

Key Theme 5. Social security

Munekazu Kawachi	Is the Benefit from Public Pension Adequate for retired Workers in Japan
Pierre Devolder	NDC Dynamic Equilibrium Model with financial and demographic risks
Junichi Sakamoto	Some Weaknesses of A Benefit Level Indicator