Description: Discusses the successes and difficulties companies have had with the plan, methods most successful in securing bank cooperation, legal issues, persistency experience, etc.

Description: Recurring column that lists recent publications in risk management of note to readers.

Description: Recurring column that lists recent publications in risk management of note to readers.

Description: Read the August 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the Joint Risk Management Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Update on research activities.

Description: April 2018 issue of The Modeling Platform by the Modeling Section. Practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities.

Description: List of published materials on the topic of enterprise risk management.

Description: Research report describing the results of an Emerging Risks Survey conducted in 2016. The report, the tenth in a series, includes comparisons to the previous surveys.

Description: This session series is sponsored by Hannover Re Session 2 - COVID-19: Financial Impacts and Re-shaping Risk and Capital Management Practices COVID-19 has posed significant challenges to health insurers and providers to meet profit targets and maintain strong balance sheets and capitalization levels. As a result, companies are facing an ever-increasing need to better integrate their risk and capital management practices across the enterprise and evaluate a broader set of tools to manage and optimize their capital and liquidity needs. This second session of the COVID-19 series will help you examine the financial impact that COVID-19 has had on the health industry and review how companies are evolving their financial and capital management practices to achieve their strategic goals. It will also outline how structured reinsurance has emerged as an increasingly utilized form of managing capital. By attending this session, you will be able to explain how COVID-19 has impacted the financial performance and capitalization of the health insurance industry, and will gain a basic understanding of alternative ways of managing and optimizing capital, including the use of structired reinsurance.

Description: The Chinese insurance market is grappling with product innovation, business growth and regulatory oversight as it tries to keep pace with a sharp growth in demand across product segments. In this context, the authors have highlighted insurance trends in China, based on available research and literature, with a particular focus on topics that will drive the enterprise risk management (ERM) function of insurance companies. ERM provides an opportunity for insurers to identify and mitigate potential insurance risks by enhancing their policies and risk management activities. This report explores the insurance trends in detail, drawing on findings from interviews of practitioners in the Chinese market, to provide context for the drivers of ERM transformation.