Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 5C: Assumption Setting in an Uncertain World 8.31.21 Recording

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has had an impact on all aspects of daily life and its impact extends to how disability incidence may play out in the future. Product profitability will be shaped by how morbidity patterns, interest rate levels and other key drivers will play out into the future. In this session, our panel will discuss COVID’s impact on IDI morbidity experience as observed over the past 18 months, offer comparisons and insights in light of other insurance lines of business, and share emerging information on the on-going effects of Long COVID. Highlights will also include how regional differences and implications for insurers as the industry moves further into the COVID vaccine era.

Description: Living benefits (GLWBs) in fixed index annuity products are typically accounted for under SOP03-1 under current GAAP guidance. LDTI requires companies to classify these riders as Market Risk Benefit (MRB). This webcast focuses on challenges and considerations of the MRB implementation. Industry practices of the reserving approach will be shared during this webcast, as well as hedging and pricing implications.

Description: This session will kick off the key National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) activities, with a primary focus on updates to principle-based reserve valuations and appointed actuary topics. The presenters will provide insights into the current set of activities and initiatives being considered by the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) and Life Risk-Based Capital Working Group, as well as activities being undertaken by American Academy of Actuaries committees and work groups.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 11E: Real World ESGs and the NAIC's ESG Project 10.28.21 Recording

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 14B: IFRS 17- Restructuring the Corporate Operating Model 10.29.21 Recording

Description: Implementing the new data and system requirements related to LDTI bring a renewed focus on the partnership between actuarial and IT teams. This session will discuss common challenges encountered in the past couple of years of LDTI implementation and propose ways on how to ensure a strong partnership between actuarial and IT teams to implement the necessary changes for LDTI.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 3B: Tax Changes During COVID-19 10.26.21 Recording

Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 9D: MRBs: Special Considerations for Fixed Indexed Annuities 9.1.21 Recording

Description: 2021 Life Meeting - Session 1C: Earnings Pressure Impact on Annuity Product Development and the Insurance-Linked Securities Market