Description: The COVID-19 pandemic, record low interest rates and an active market for legacy life insurance blocks has led many insurers to reconsider the spectrum of inforce management options in their toolkit. Further, the pace of execution on inforce management changes is unprecedented as insurers hope to complete substantial changes in advance of upcoming changes to the measurement of insurance liabilities (e.g., US GAAP LDTI, IFRS 17). Hear from industry experts, as they share their perspectives on recent trends in inforce management for individual life insurance. Potential topics include: usage of offshore reinsurance, management of non-guaranteed elements, Mergers and acquisitions, and retention programs (e.g., policy exchange, post-level-term optimiziation).

Description: Duration matching is a risk management strategy, commonly used in the insurance industry, where the duration (price sensitivity to a yield curve movement) of an asset portfolio is adjusted to be made equal to the duration of the liability. However, this approach has flaws. In this essay, I note some key failures of duration matching and offer a potential alternative.

Description: The Survey of Emerging Risk has been successfully conducted in North America for 16 years, consistently providing reports that track risk managers' opinions on emerging topics transcending the current business cycle, with strategic plans extending over decades. Since 2022, the survey has been specifically introduced to the Asia-Pacific markets with local language support, aiming to gauge actuarial and risk management professionals' opinions on emerging risks in the Asian market.

Description: Society of Actuaries Announces 2023 Actuarial Science Early Career Award Recipient

Description: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is in the middle of a project to change the real-world economic scenario generator (RW ESG) prescribed for principle-based reserve and capital calculations. Explore a brief summary of the NAIC's RW ESG project and gain a general overview of RW ESGs. Learn how RW ESGs impact principle-based reserve and capital levels, their potential impact on life insurance companies and consider differences between the currently prescribed RW ESG and the proposed RW ESG.

Description: Gain insight into lessons learned from VM-20 implementation and recent regulatory updates such as the introduction of future mortality improvement (FMI), changes to the economic scenario generator (ESG), and the recently adopted AG AAT. By attending the session, you will: •Have a high-level overview of recent VM-20 updates and hot topics, such FMI and ESG updates•Understand the challenges presented by PBR implementation, and the implications of performing multiple critical and required system updates simultaneously•Improve your understanding of the development and implications of the AG AAT

Description: After three decades of relatively stable overall inflation trends, the United States has seen significant increases over the last twelve months. What could this mean for inflation in the medical sector? Explore past patterns between the two phenomena, and what drivers stakeholders can monitor to be best aware of what could be coming.

Description: Pandemics are a main driver of losses for both life and non-life (re-)insurance. Until COVID-19, risk assessment mostly relied on a few historic examples, most importantly the Spanish flu. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that other pathogens (namely the coronaviruses) need to be taken into account. Also, modern societies and governments drastically respond to novel threats and implement measures such as social distancing, mask mandates, and lockdowns. Besides the properties of the pathogen itself, these reactions and the medical progression (namely the development of vaccines) are key influences on the course of a pandemic, and thus also the resulting outcomes. To account for the new insights, join us as we take a look at a stochastic, age-structured compartmental model that is calibrated on recent pandemics with several parameters sets to model different levels of reaction speed and stringency between groups of countries. Other important factors also must be defined in close collaboration with experts. Get ready to explore the development of a model and framework that can provide potential outcomes to be used as the basis to derive both summary and tail statistics to assess pandemic risk and help price complex deals.

Description: This research utilized an interview-based approach that delves into the utilization of alternative data in the Australian life and health insurance markets.