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HEDGING AND IMMUNIZATION OF LONGEVITY RISK

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Increasing life expectancy rates are extending the liability profiles of annuity income providers. However, the challenge of devising asset allocation strategies to fund these liabilities is complicated by a lack of appropriate assets. This thesis demonstrates portfolio management strategies to address this challenge. Estelle Liu UNSW, CIFR / CMCRC Honours Scholarship Program 2014 Keywords: Annuity, risk

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MODELLING THE TREATMENT PATHWAY OF HER2-POSITIVE METASTATIC BREAST CANCER (HER2+MBC) IN AUSTRALIA, 2001 – 2015

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Speaker: Benjamin Daniels, UNSW Seminar Date: Tuesday October 24 12:00pm Brief abstract: Background: Metastatic cancer and its treatment are conceptualised in terms of “stages”. Clinical trials and most observational research are concerned with what is often just one stage out of several. In this project we attempt to use routinely collected Australian administrative health data to associate survival outcomes

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