Description: The Life Meeting, is the result of combining the Life & Annuity Symposium (LAS) and the Valuation Actuarial Symposium (ValAct). The Life Meeting will offer sessions specific to pricing and valuation as well as sessions on emerging issues relevant to both groups. These common themes include InsurTech, diversity, accounting change and the current economic environment.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a 2022 survey examining mortality improvement practices of life and annuity companies in the U.S. and Canada.

Description: Few product innovations have transfigured the variable annuity (VA) industry as much as guaranteed living benefits (GLBs).

Description: This article examines the changes in U.S. regulatory reserve and risk-based capital requirements that will significantly impact the insurance industry and practicing actuaries. It summarizes activity related to principles-based reserves and risk-based capital initiatives during 2005.

Description: Delves into the impact of rising interest rates on annuity product management, with a focus on the challenges of disintermediation and implications to hedging. Learn about in-force management actions, best practices for managing annuities in a changing environment and associated risks. Explore how companies are revising their hedging strategies to adapt to shifting market conditions and regulatory framework changes. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the relation between rising interest rates and disintermediation, its financial and business impacts, and strategies for managing business and setting assumptions during periods of high disintermediation. Come away with practical strategies for optimizing returns, minimizing risks, and navigating the challenges and opportunities associated with annuity product management in the current interest rate environment.

Description: Come discuss modeling costs and its governance, as well as introduce some platforms for more granular asset modeling.

Description: This article presents the idea that a New Product Notebook, which contains all of the aspects of a product's development and is accessible to all involved, can make the product development process more efficient.

Description: Investigate the concept of value annuities and the potential cost-effective differences when compared to traditional annuities by attending this webcast. Value annuities are an alternative lifetime income solution where longevity and investment risks are born by a pool of annuitants rather than a centralized insurer. Join this webcast for a closer look at the practicalities of designing and administering a value pool. There will also be a focus on the legislative, regulator and supervisory implications.

Description: Learn about considerations and industry observed trends which cover different ways companies try to manage their inforce business in low and rapidly rising interest environments. You will explore M&A, block transaction, and offshore reinsurance solutions.