The SOA Asia-Pacific Annual Symposium

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

The planning committee is currently seeking ideas for sessions that will provide relevant and engaging content at this year’s symposium. The committee is looking for seasoned speakers who are interested in sharing their expertise through interactive sessions. The committee is particularly interested in hot topics and non-traditional practices in areas such as life, health, pension, general insurance, finance, investment, ERM, predictive analytics, innovation technology, professionalism or soft skills, as well as other topics that appeal to actuaries practicing in the finance and insurance industries around the world, especially in Asia. Some potential topics are:

Life/Health Insurance

• Partnership with non-bank
• Cutting-edge medical portfolio management in the region
• Digitalization on insurance products (impact, strategies)
• Pricing for guarantees on protection products
• Use of data analytics in life insurance
• Next generation advances in medicine and impact on the industry
• Building flexibility in product development and robust policyholder expectation management
• Distribution channel conflict within insurance companies
• Product development/pricing: product trends in the region
• AI for claim processing and underwriting

IFRS 17

• Managing business and IFRS impacts - a focus on products, distribution and data
• IFRS17 post-implementation (testing, parallel run) strategy
• Post-IFRS17 business/operation strategy

Finance/Investment

• Reporting automation
• Using reinsurance as a tool to manage capital/balance sheet requirements
• Technological advancement and financial inclusion

Pension/Retirement

• Drivers of longevity risk pre- and post- retirement
• Long term care risk factors and concerns
• Drivers of longevity – are mortality improvements slowing down?
• Aging and product innovation

General Insurance

• The future of general insurance (driverless cars, cyber risk)
• AI for claim processing and underwriting

ERM/Risk Management

• The use of risk matrices and other tools to identify and quantify risk
• ORSA and its implication towards insurers

We also welcome proposals for topics outside of those listed above.

If you are interested in presenting, please submit your proposal here by 28 Feb. 2020.

**Please note, listed speaker(s) should be those presenting at the meeting should your proposal be selected.