Description: Reinsurance transactions have become increasingly common in the annuity market as means to reduce risk, improve pricing, release capital, or exit a line of business. The market has become increasingly complex as it has grown. Insurance carriers and reinsurance providers now need to keep up with a growing range of reinsurance structures to manage their business efficiently. This session will detail the different types of annuity reinsurance transactions currently being executed in the market, the costs and benefits of different approaches, and recent trends in reinsurance structuring. At the conclusion of the session, you will understand the basics of how annuity reinsurance is being used in the market today as well as how to understand and evaluate potential reinsurance transactions.

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: There are many underwriting issues being discussed in states that challenge how information is used in the underwriting process. Learn more about a variety of rules and regulations, including Colorado's proposed regulation requiring a governance and risk management framework for life insurance carriers' use of external consumer data and information sources, as well as algorithms and predictive models using such data. Recent proposals are more far-reaching than existing requirements in states that have put up guardrails for the use of new data sets and algorithms, especially for underwriting. Listen in as experts discuss the potential issues and implications of this and other proposed regulations.

Description: Equity-Based Insurance Guarantee Webcast Series

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting strengths and weaknesses and evaluating accuracy.

Description: Interview of Natasha Regan about her mastery of the game of chess.

Description: Join us for a lively discussion on how accelerated underwriting (AU) practices have evolved over time and specifically because of COVID-19.

Description: Join us for discussion about the tax implications for direct writers ceding annuity blocks. The presenters will describe the mechanics and consequences for both onshore and offshore reinsurance arrangements. This will introduce the audience to the tax consequences, with the risk transfer of annuity features and guarantees to reinsurers to reinsurers that are US-based and not US domiciled.

Description: As more gene and cell therapies enter the market at increasingly higher price points, they are ushering in a new era of medicine for rare diseases. Unlike most traditional therapies, gene and cell therapies typically have a short or one-time treatment administration and are anticipated to provide long-term clinical benefits. Actuaries must be prepared to assess, manage, and/or mitigate the risks associated with these therapies. This session includes three different perspectives—a regional plan, a stop loss/reinsurance carrier, and a health care consultant.

Description: The U.S. life insurance industry has been increasing its exposure to complex assets, either directly as investors or via offshore reinsurance (e.g., Bermuda). In order to address regulatory concerns about such investments and reinsurance arrangements, the NAIC has begun multiple initiatives to improve disclosure and strengthen regulatory requirements, and the Bermuda Monetary Authority is also strengthening its requirements. Hear a summary of these initiatives, and get an update on the latest developments at the NAIC and at the Academy on these topics.