Willis Towers Watson Actuarial Valuations and Data Solutions in Lisbon

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Willis Towers Watson Actuarial Valuations and Data Solutions in Lisbon © 2016 Willis Towers Watson Plc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential.

About Willis Towers Watson Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW) is a leading global advisory, broking and solutions company that helps clients around the world turn risk into a path for growth. With roots dating to 1828, Willis Towers Watson has over 40,000 employees in more than 120 countries. We design and deliver solutions that manage risk, optimize benefits, cultivate talent, and expand the power of capital to protect and strengthen institutions and individuals. Our unique perspective allows us to see the critical intersections between talent, assets and ideas – the dynamic formula that drives business performance. Together, we unlock potential. Learn more at willistowerswatson.com. © 2016 Willis Towers Watson Plc. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential.

Willis Towers Watson around the world Great Britain: 22% Western Europe: 16% North America: 50% International: 12% Total: 40,000+ © 2018 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Willis Towers Watson in Portugal Consulting Portugal GB+WE pensions market LSC The Lisbon Service Centre Actuarial valuations of pension funds – financial mathematics, modelling, liabilities/assets, cashflows, funding levels, stochastic processes Data Solutions – data quality, reconciliation exercises, data construction, data digitisation

Pension funds Commonly of the order of $ billions Features Plans to provide income during retirement Provide for current and future pensioners Are sponsored by employers/companies Can be very large in terms of value of assets Are very large investors and play an important role in the stock market What are they? Can be a difficult question to answer How do we determine how much money is needed to provide pensions for a population? How de we calculate contribution rates? How do we account for uncertainty of longevity? How do we account for uncertainty of market conditions? How do we determine how much money to hold now and how much to invest? How are they managed? © 2017 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Actuarial valuations An actuarial valuation is the process of assessing the liabilities that a pension fund is responsible for and determining the funding level by comparing them to the value of the assets In a nutshell, it aims at calculating a number that represents the current value of all future payments that the scheme is responsible for paying But they also calculate on a year-by-year basis the amounts that need to paid off the fund’s assets to provide for the pensions due each year (cashflows) They use mathematical models based on statistical methods, probability theory, finance, economics and computer science to model cashflows, evolution of market conditions, mortality, marital status percentages and other factors that can impact a pension fund They may use stochastic processes to model the random nature of mortality, inflation, interest rates, etc. Require large computational power because they model the streams of pension payments for each individual pensioner in a particular fund Typically run a number of different scenarios under different economic and demographic assumptions © 2018 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Actuarial valuations – Liabilities Total liability = £12.8bn Cashflows are generated to simulate a number of economic and demographic assumptions These assumptions reflect different scenarios They model the expectation of how much the scheme must pay out each year to meets its responsibilities © 2018 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Actuarial valuations – Liabilities Mainframe parallel processing Large data files In-house software eVal Platform Functions (sub-models) Economic variables Discount rates (investment return) Salary escalation Inflation Revaluation rates Stautory pension increas rates Statistical tables Demographic variables Mortality (by postcode!) Ill-health Retirement Deferment (moving jobs) Marriage percentages Features Modelling Discrete/Continuous Timing adjustments Materiality Judgement Sensitivities eVal Data Results: Cashflows (all sorts of breakdowns) Individual results by member Metrics and projections eVal Liabilities © 2018 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Actuarial valuations – Risks What is the need to run these models? Many funds have massive liabilities, of the order of tens of billions Small levels of underfunding represent significant issues in the sponsor companies books Underfunded pension funds may not be able to provide pensions Financial Impact Longevity – Health care may lead to much longer lives and underestimation of liabilities Investment return – Return on investments can be uncertain (in particular for certain classes) Risk types © 2018 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Actuarial valuations – Assets In addition to performing the calculation of liabilites and cashflows, funds are also advised on the best strategies to invest their assets Typically the investment strategies aim at timing future asset sales and revenue streams (dividends, rents, etc.) to match the outbound cashflows needed to pay the pensions due each year This is known as asset-liability matching © 2018 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Data Solutions – why is reliable data important in the pensions world? Allows pension funds to comply with statutory regulations and pay members their full pension entitlement Helps actuaries determine accurate funding levels Reduces risk – missing or poor data may represent a large but unrecognised liability that the fund is liable for paying Enables pension funds to enter de-risking/hedging transations with ensurers Better quality data helps secure better deals and lower premiums when negotiating with insurance companies – they too don’t want to be liable for an undisclosed liability © 2017 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Data Solutions – what do we do at Willis Towers Watson Data reconciliation Digitisation Data cleanse / construction Reconciliation of: Population Pension amounts Pension fund’s data Government records Many of our data reconciliation projects are supported by digitisation work – see next Iterative approach to resolve all records in the data Interaction with GB government agencies to resolve discrepancies between government and scheme records Process for converting physical records to digitally readable data. Digitisation steps: Conversion from physical to PDF format (currently not done at the LSC) Classification of documents into sets of the same type based on content Extraction of data from PDF images into Excel or database formats Re-calculation of pension benefits based on historic data Re-tranching exercises Contingent spouse pensions – construction of CSP data on the basis of historic member data Correction of pension amounts and benefits in the administration systems of the pension funds © 2017 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Data Solutions – what do we do at Willis Towers Watson Data reconciliation Digitisation Data cleanse / construction Reconciliation of: Population Pension amounts Pension fund’s data Government records Many of our data reconciliation projects are supported by digitisation work – see next Iterative approach to resolve all records in the data Interaction with GB government agencies to resolve discrepancies between government and scheme records Process for converting physical records to digitally readable data. Digitisation steps: Conversion from physical to PDF format (currently not done at the LSC) Classification of documents into sets of the same type based on content Extraction of data from PDF images into Excel or database formats Re-calculation of pension benefits based on historic data Re-tranching exercises Contingent spouse pensions – construction of CSP data on the basis of historic member data Correction of pension amounts and benefits in the administration systems of the pension funds © 2017 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved. Proprietary and Confidential. For Willis Towers Watson and Willis Towers Watson client use only.

Data Solutions – Digitisation Process to convert information from a physical support (paper, microfiche, etc.) to editable digital formal – Excel, databases, etc. 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000 State of the art software Machine learning algorithms and SW training Time and cost savings Fully integrated solution Data Digitisation Hours Manual Extraction © 2016 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved.

87 27 29 50/50 3 6 With PhDs Lisbon Service Centre In numbers 87 29 50/50 Average age With engineering or economics background Colleagues in the Lisbon Service Center 3 With PhDs Working on Data Solutions 27 6 IST alumni from Physics Highly specialised and analytical work that requires numerical and problem solving skills Organisational and project management skills are equally important because the LSC works with a large programme of clients © 2016 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved.

Willis Towers Watson Contacts Email: antonio.crespo@willistowerswatson.com Website: www.willistowerswatson.com Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/willis-towers-watson © 2016 Willis Towers Watson. All rights reserved.