Description: Discover the benefits of building a shared business model during the Building Digital Platforms: Insurtechs, Carriers and Reinsurers webcast. This is an educational event for the actuary interested in product and channel innovation, in addition to those wanting to understand how to juggle competitive incentives in the market. Representatives from Insurtechs, insurance carriers and reinsurers will discuss their distribution development and product capabilities for marketing insurance products on digital platforms, as well as their collaboration throughout the process.

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: As the size of the life reinsurance market in Bermuda has grown to over half a trillion dollars at the end of 2021, more and more actuaries are getting involved with this 21 square mile North Atlantic island in one way or the other. Come explore a fundamental understanding of the Bermuda solvency framework and an overview of its upcoming changes.

Description: Actuarial governance has become a standard industry practice over the past decade due to its strategic benefits; however, the quality of governance frameworks varies greatly throughout the industry due to different resource prioritization and risk cultures among insurers. Enterprises that invest in a strong actuarial governance framework can experience significant benefits, such as increased confidence in results, earlier indication of potential issues, better insights for management decision-making, and process efficiencies that can save insurers millions each year. They can also reduce the risk of costly material weaknesses.Governance frameworks come at a cost, however, as their design and implementation require enterprise-wide efforts and, frequently, external support. How should insurers balance the cost of actuarial governance with the benefits of increased efficiency and reduced risk?Explore the world of actuarial governance with a focus on model, assumption, and data governance. Learn more about case studies to quantify the potential costs and savings associated with actuarial governance. By attending this session, you will:•Be able to describe key aspects of actuarial governance frameworks. •Understand the costs of implementing actuarial governance as well as some of the risks associated with poor governance.

Description: LDTI requires that reinsurance recoverables be recognized in a manner consistent with the liabilities of underlying direct contracts. Consider implications of multiple ceded reinsurance contracts (e.g., coinsurance and YRT on the same business) and how this impacts the calculation of the net premium ratio (NPR) and other related approximations. Explore different options when only some of the policies within a cohort are reinsured. Multiple interpretations of the components of the NPR formula exist. Two main approaches will be presented-standalone and integrated approach. Other considerations to be discussed include implications of closed-block reinsurance transactions at transition and subsequent to transition, contra-DAC, market risk benefits. Finally, explore the short-duration YRT approximation (1/2 Cx) compared to the long-duration calculation.

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 2B: Interest Rates May Be Rising...Now What Do We Do? 10.25.21 Recording

Description: Highlight the importance of assigning granular policyholder behavior assumptions to cohorts of a block that behave differently for universal life products. The case study assumption testing will focus on potential cash flow impacts of surrender, lapse and premium persistency behavior— individually and combined. The case study will be based on testing data related to typical demographics for a ULSG product and not on any specific company data.

Description: U.S. population death statistics and trends often occupy COVID-19 briefings and daily headlines. There are also publicly available mortality data sources for actuaries and others to perform their own analysis. Yet industry studies examining the impact of COVID-19 on insured populations are in their infancy. In this webcast, presenters will provide insights into how the life insured population is faring during COVID-19 by discussing the findings from two recent SOA research initiatives. LIMRA, RGA Reinsurance, the Society of Actuaries and TAI have collaborated on an effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience. Additionally, the SOA has surveyed insurers to gather a high-level view of U.S. Group Term Life Insurance mortality results during the COVID-19 pandemic and comparing them to pre-pandemic mortality levels.

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.