Description: Studies climate trends and their impact on extreme and catastrophic events.

Description: Future mortality improvement has been a common assumption in life insurance and annuity pricing and forecasting for many years. However, experience over the last decade suggests this might be an assumption that merits reconsideration in the United States. This article will take a closer look at factors that impact mortality improvement trends and discuss why insurers may want to reevaluate product designs to better manage the associated mortality risk. We then introduce a product idea with this in mind, where premiums are based on a life expectancy index and insurers share the risk (and opportunity) or mortality improvement with policyholders.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Retirement Section Research Committee is seeking researchers to explore new modeling approaches for creating pension plan turnover tables.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is honored to announce the recipients of the Outstanding Session Awards for the 2023 SOA Health Meeting that took place in person on June 26–28 and virtually on July 11–13.

Description: The SOA is interested in understanding how companies are performing scenario analysis, thinking through how various stakeholders (regulators, general public, competitors) could be reacting to a large-scale large-impact event over a multi-year period.

Description: Discover the key components of value-based care (VBC) contracts and their impact on provider credibility. Learn about benchmarks, measurement period results, and the unique challenges providers face in managing insurance risk. Gain insights into reducing costs and aligning financial incentives in the US healthcare market.

Description: Actuaries and underwriters are trained in different skills and approach risk selection from different perspectives. These differences sometimes lead to silos and limited interactions within companies as each one focuses on executing their area of expertise. With new underwriting tools and risk selection processes, the existence of silos between actuaries and underwriters can stagnate an insurer's long-term success. But how do you truly break down these silos when each speaks a different language? Join a panel of actuaries and underwriters as they explore how the two worlds collide and where there can be improved room for collaboration in product development, risk assessment, and innovation. Find out how actuaries and underwriters can best work together to: - Find common understanding. - Align risk selection and pricing. - Ensure mortality and expense assumptions are realized in the course of new business sales.

Description: Innovation in technology has disrupted nearly every industry creating mounting internal and external pressures on organizations to accelerate the adoption of their digital agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic further brought to light the need for technology to be adaptable, powerful and scalable. As the insurance industry leaps into the future, actuaries must not only proactively refine their roles and responsibilities within insurance organizations, but also seek opportunities for improvements and optimization in their day-to-day work. Discover a variety of opportunities in using modern technology to streamline, accelerate and optimize actuarial processes. Cover a wide spectrum of actuarial solutions from automation of actuarial data transformation to actuarial reserve calculations and calibration of economic scenarios.

Description: Discover investing trends across the life and health industry as insurers seek to navigate rapidly changing rate and market environments. BlackRock will present results from its Peer Risk Study, which models industry holdings based on statutory filings at the CUSIP level. Through the Aladdin risk modeling software, expect a production of deep insights into insurer portfolio risk and return characteristics, as well as exploring how they have evolved. Keep an eye out for a partner to present on the evolution from their perspective. Start learning about what is happening on the asset side of the balance sheet across the industry.

Description: Explore concepts related to self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management. Go beyond understanding what emotional intelligence (EQ) is to discover how to use it to build skills that enhance intelligence, education and experience to more quickly and consistently reach personal and professional goals.