Description: The speakers will share the international experience in the annuity market, discuss the annuity puzzle and the influencing factors of annuity supply and demand, and express their views on the annuity market trend under the aging and longevity trend of China's population and longevity risk management of annuity products.

Description: This session summarizes enterprise risk management [ERM], how health insurers are facing scrutiny and learing to apply risk management based on observations in the life insurance industry and how to implement an ERM program. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 24

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Las Vegas, NV May 22-24, 2000 This teaching session discusses the available tools for communicating company risk postures to senior management. The focus is on tools that show distributions of results rather than a point estimate.

Description: From session 14TS at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000. This teaching session discusses the available tools for communicating company risk postures to senior management. The focus is on tools that show distributions of results rather than a point estimate, along with stress testing.

Description: This session 101PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting presents ideas on what causes liquidity concerns and discusses how to model and manage liquidity risk.From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 101PD

Description: This session 15 PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting includes an update on specific approaches adopted by Canadian insurers and regulators to deal with capital guarantees on segregated fund products, capital modeling in the Canadian banking industry, and emerging issues using these techniques in the U.S. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session

Description: This session will look into life insurers’ anticipated business impacts as a result of the implementation of the new accounting standard for insurance contracts, IFRS 17. What will be the financial impact as of day one as a result of transition? How will embedded value for common life insurance products change? How will costs of reinsurance be affected? Will products have to be re-designed and/or re-priced? IFRS 17 may have more ramifications into the way insurers are doing business than we have anticipated so far. While we are working on the implementation of this new standard, we should not lose sight of the business impacts that will follow. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: Understand key impacts of the transition to IFRS 17; See illustrative examples of the impact on embedded value; and Understand key impacts on product design and pricing Country Relevance: US and Canada

Description: This session discussion is about deterioration in claims-paying ability, financial well-being of life insurance companies, benchmark surplus standards, key operation ratios, credit analysis of asset holdings, market view of stock companies, adequacy of capital in the industry, appropriate risk/reward posture in the industry, advice to management, outlook for the various business and views on surplus relief devices. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 15, No. 3A.

Description: There will be no easy resolution to the current trade friction between the U.S. and China. If anything, the motivations for increasing protectionism are set to intensify. What are these motivations? Where is this trade war headed? And what impact could this have on economies and financial markets?

Description: The panel presents the evolution of enterprise risk management within the actuarial profession from the perspectives of an actuarial educator, an actuarial recruiter and a corporate risk officer. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3.