2025 SOA ImpACT Conference:Session 5B: So You Think You Understand Your Near-Term Mortality?-11.04.25 Recording

Join us for an exciting and educational Jeopardy-style game show where leading experts in mortality and health trends go head-to-head to explore the complex landscape of emerging factors affecting life insurance. This unique format will showcase the latest research and insights on critical topics shaping the future of mortality projections. Our expert contestants will compete in a Jeopardy style long-format, with categories including something along the lines of / a subset of: - GLP-1 Revolution: Weighing the benefits and risks of new weight loss medications - Economic Rollercoaster: Decoding mortality implications of financial uncertainty - Cancer Chronicles: Exploring the shift towards chronic disease management - Opioid Odyssey: Assessing recent overdose mortality rates and the impact to insurance, and prognosis on external causes of death - Methods for projecting mortality improvement: weighing statistical approaches - do you know your age-period-cohorts, and other methods. - You thought you knew underwriting: do we know less or more about our applicants, and is our risk pool becoming more stratified or subject to the same risk factors we observe in population mortality? - What you still don't know about pandemic(s)