Description: How the speed of change is accelerating and how we could react to this as a profession.

Description: Recent and pending changes in financial reporting standards and regulations such as IFRS 17 and US GAAP Targeted Improvements are ramping up the performance pressures on actuarial models. New infrastructure technology in the cloud is driving modeling options that may well help actuaries successfully and economically meet these challenges and unlock even greater transformational change.

Description: This article describes one of the keys to successful marketing in the current environment - build a relational database that will help the agent communicate with a client in an organized way, so that we can educate, inform, present choices and help these clients navigate their financial future. This article provides the elements of such a database.

Description: ReMark's Global Consumer Study delivers 10 key insights to empower customers. Insurers can design products that meet customers' needs and enhance client experiences and add significant value to their business. At the same time with new products being launched seemingly continuously, it is important to take a step back and assess risk throughout the product management cycle.

Description: 1993 SOA Meeting, Quebec. This session is about implementing new technology, choosing between competing technology, problems to watch out for, unexpected benefits, migrating from mainframe to client/server, automating the field force and large-scale networks.

Description: Gather with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, pension, investment, product strategy, and more.

Description: After International Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”) issued International Financial Reporting Standard No. 17 – Insurance Contracts (“IFRS 17”), IASB received much feedback and suggestions for improvement. As a result, in early 2019, IASB made limited changes to IFRS 17. The presentation will briefly discuss the main contents and effects of those changes.

Description: View the Avoiding Unfair Bias in Insurance Applications of AI Models - Chinese

Description: The actuarial profession is at a tipping point and a combination of disruptive technologies and external pressures are creating a unique opportunity to move from results producer to insightful adviser. For a prudent but forward-looking professional, this is exciting and scary in equal measure. The ability to process large masses of business data to make more accurate calculations has become one of the most sought-after skills for leaders across all industries, including insurance.<br><br>The presenters will introduce current data technologies used to manage, process and visualize data. They will cover solutions like Microsoft BI, Tableau, Amazon Redshift, Hadoop, Alteryx, Python, etc. and their applications in data, process improvement, automation, reporting and predictive analytics. In particular, they will explore management reporting and how it leverages data analytics to help business leaders with strategic decisions making, how to evaluate the effectiveness of management reporting structures, drivers of change and ways to improve them, and proposed steps toward entrenching this dynamic and insightful approach to management reporting in which insurance leaders can have confidence.

Description: The Introduction to Modeling: Summer Boot Camp series provides an overview of modeling topics and techniques aimed at the beginner modeler. This interactive series is comprised of five 90-minute sessions with opportunities to discuss the topics in small break-out groups.