Description: Volatile interest rates, repositioned investment portfolios, and stress in the banking sector are driving insurers to manage market risk and counterparty credit risk. Our experts in investments, derivatives, and hedge accounting will discuss this new market environment and its impact on hedging. The conversation will include practical case studies, including hedging future bond purchases, hedging floating-rate CLOs, and counterparty credit risk management.

Description: Come discuss how to treat experience that is impacted by COVID (e.g., 2020+), as well as expected experience moving forward in terms of excess deaths related to COVID and non-COVID topics. Expect to also cover how the COVID period has impacted lapse/surrender behavior and trends in recent industry mortality and lapse studies that have been conducted including areas where individual companies typically have limited data. You will learn about various techniques of adjusting experience for the impact of COVID and the considerations in using such experience and setting a best-estimate assumption going forward. For mortality, the discussion will include both base mortality as well as future mortality improvement and the intersection of both of these.Explore an understanding of available data to supplement their experience in areas where they may have limited internal experience

Description: Focus on Accelerated Underwriting (AUW) in the life insurance industry, which is an expedited underwriting process that utilizes predictive models. Expect to address the challenges in designing the process, from modelling to performance monitoring. Additionally, you'll address risk management, particularly in mortality and proxy discrimination andhighlight the role an actuary can play in the AUW process, as well aswhat they should know to contribute effectively.

Description: Discuss population mortality improvement trends in the U.S. This will include analysis of cause of death data and trends in mortality pre-pandemic and during the pandemic. We will also discuss ways to think about translating population mortality improvement to an insured population.Learning outcomes includea better understanding of the drivers of recent mortality improvement and insights on how to create a company view on mortality improvement.

Description: Open source programming languages have become a common part of the actuarial toolkit over the years. Using tools like R and Python, highly technical actuaries can automate onerous processes, easily work with massive amounts of data, create models and generate reports. Although these tools excel at turbo-charging analysts, it can be difficult for benefits to inure to the rest of the organization given the learning curve (“Can’t you just put this in Excel?”), control risks (“So your entire process could break overnight if some random person in Nebraska changes something?”), and internal IT environments. Listen in on a panel discussion where presenters share their personal stories of working with open source in a production setting. Hear about real world business problems, how open source tools were used, what risks were present, how they were overcome and the final business result.

Description: This data request is for a study focusing on surrender/lapse, withdrawal, living benefit utilization, annuitization, and premium deposit experiences. The study aims to provide detailed analysis and insights into fixed indexed annuity contract activities.

Description: Given the rise in interest rates during 2022, join an insightful discussion on the implications of increasing rates on fixed annuity (FA) and fixed index annuity (FIA) business by looking at industry experience for FA and FIA products for 2022 compared to earlier years. Additionally, you will walk through partial withdrawals, guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) utilization, mortality and what to expect as interest rate volatility continues.