Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: Experience a comprehensive overview of the current purchasing landscape for health care services, with a specific focus on how healthtech start-ups can break into the employer-sponsored health care market. You will learn about the key players in the healthcare industry, as well as challenges that new entrants (+ B2B vendors more generally) face in selling their services to employers and health plans.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The speaker addresses the art of taking criticism and offers specific strategies that enable one to use criticism to his/her own advantage, including how to appraise the validity of criticism, dealing with the destructive critic, handling critical customers and clients, how to keep from becoming defensive, how to change your own behavior, and getting the critical edge. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: The 2023 Professionalism in Practice Course will study, discuss and explore the professionalism practice, code of conduct and application of the actuarial profession. Our speakers are seasoned presenters from mainland China. Experts will cover several issues encountered in daily actuarial working environments. Content will include business cases and interactive discussions, which aim to enrich the practical learning experience of attendees. Audience attendance will be limited in order to provide an interactive, collaborative learning experience. Early registration is highly recommended to secure a seat.

Description: "In the world of big data, data visualization tools and technologies are essential to analyze massive amounts of information and make data-driven decisions. What does the future of Data Visualization look like? How does it help translate analytical knowledge into business actions? While it’s important to navigate all types of tools for Data Visualization, it’s critically important to be able to tailor it to your audience. In this session you will learn how to modify data visualization for different types of audiences. At the conclusion of the session, you’ll be able to: · Understand future of data visualization. · Identify different ways to communicate via data visualization. · Learn how to tailor communication based on the audience."

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Board of Directors (Board) gathered in Chicago March 16–17 for its first meeting of the year. Among key topics on the agenda were the FSA pathway evolution update, Board elections, strategic planning and the use of AI in the workforce.

Description: This presentation is an open forum from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The panelists discuss the current public image of the life insurance industry, and whether life insurers meet or are able to meet public expectations. They examine the differences between the public’s outside view and the actuary's view from the inside, how they differ, and what the actuary can do to improve the industry’s image, as an educator and communicator. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4B.

Description: "Actuaries work with data, but that’s not the entirety of the profession. They need to leverage their analysis of the data to present findings and recommendations across various functional areas and management. In telling the story of the data, actuaries need to understand which tools are available to communicate effectively. In this session, attendees will hear from speaker(s) on various tools and how to use them most effectively in their day-to-day job. Tools that will be addressed include R, Python, Excel, and more. At the conclusion of this session, you’ll be able to: · Learn how to communicate results after analyzing data. · Understand various tools that could be used in communicating a story to management."

Description: "Technical and analytical skills have been the main driver in the professional success you have had thus far. As you continue to advance your actuarial career, the work you do will become more complex, specialized, and likely, more important. Being able to tell a story about a project will help ensure you understand the analysis on a deeper level, will assist in more efficient communication, and will support understanding for varying levels of expertise. At the conclusion of the session, you’ll be able to: Understand the importance of visual storytelling. Identify what story you are telling given the stage of a project. Know how to tailor communication based on the audience."

Description: The SOA launches a new newsletter powered by Artificial Intelligence