Description: Ensuring employees retire with adequate benefits is an ever-growing challenge. During this webcast, we will highlight key insights from the fields of behavioral economics and data analytics that can be utilized to better equip employees for retirement. Areas of focus will include inherent biases that people exhibit and how employers can use these biases to design plan features that will nudge their employees towards making better decisions for their futures.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Retirement Section Research Committee has sponsored a retirement project on the impact of megatrends and paradigm shifts on retirement plan design and funding. Various aspects were examined in the context of the future of retirement plans, including: Sociocultural Economic Technological Health and Long-term Care Environmental Presenters will address how the future is changing and challenge accepted thinking about retirement issues, as well as highlight new areas for consideration. At the end, you will have a better understanding of megatrends and how actuaries and others may address the changes in retirement plans.

Description: Economic Scenario Generator - Investment Section Web Series Session #2 - Real World This session will cover the following points: 1. NAIC ESG 2. Strategic Asset Allocation and Optimization Techniques 3. Covid-19 Postmortem: Modeling and calibration changes because of recent events

Description: This webcast focuses on case studies covering the ethical challenges and dilemmas that pension actuaries are currently facing. Participate in an interactive opportunity for audience members, as interaction is highly encouraged. If you attended the Conference of Consulting Actuaries (CCA), similar case studies may be used to iterate the actuarial pension environment during this enrollment cycle.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 14D: Completing the Cycle: Decumulation Innovations 10.29.21 Recording

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 1D: Reserved Roles for Actuaries in Defined Contribution Plans 10.25.21 Recording

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 7C: Impact of COVID-19 on Retirement 10.27.21 Recording

Description: Discover an update on recent developments affecting U.S. retirement plans, such as regulatory guidance, new legislative proposals, recent court cases and recent trends. Experienced pension actuaries will share their perspectives on these issues and the impact on plan sponsors.

Description: Pension risk transfer (PRT) has increasingly been a focus of private sector pension plan sponsors over the past decade. The U.S. PRT market had a record-breaking 2021. There are a few forms of PRT, and the data challenge applies to all of them. As an insurer, winning the PRT business is only the first step. There are more challenges when incorporating the data from an outdated admin system into the valuation system. A lot of manual intervention is needed for many companies, which brings different issues. Under LDTI, insurers also need better assumption management. By attending the session, you will: - Understand better different types of penstion risk transfer. - Understand the common challenges insurers face when taking on new PRT business. - Comprehend data-driven solutions that leverage different technologies to automate the reporting process. - Learn additional requirements related to PRT under LDTI.

Description: Dive into the released enhancements of MIM-2021, including a run through of its purpose and evolution, during this webcast. The Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program plans to release these updates in October. You will leave this webcast with an understanding of how to create a mortality improvement scale using the necessary steps and tools. Learn how to use MIM-2021 through instruction and demonstration that will properly prepare you to utilize this tool. There will be time for questions where you can ask about the projection process or provide feedback.