Description: Review the Bermuda Monetary Authority's Consultation Paper I and focus on required changes to governance, risk management, modeling, lapse risk, filing requirements, model governance and more.

Description: Feature article discussing the synergies between Principle Based Reserves and the NAIC’s Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA).

Description: This article focuses on how a risk appetite framework can help a company manage the “three-headed monster” and why a risk appetite framework is critical to effective business and risk management at both the corporate and product levels.

Description: The panel discusses: 1. How fund transfers may affect expense recoveries through fee revenue 2.How transfers between fixed and variable funds may impact required capital 3. Product design features that affect the risk profile of the product and 4. Modeling considerations to quantify the policyholder behavior risk. From session 113PD of the 2001 Toronto Spring Meeting.

Description: The proposed revisions to the variable annuity statutory framework and the FASB targeted improvement for long duration contract, motivate life insurance companies to re-evaluate their hedging strategy. Recently proposed revisions of AG 43/VM-21 and C3 Phase II, reward companies that have a clearly defined hedging strategy, if the companies can demonstrate that the valuation model and capital model can estimate real hedge performance accurately. The speakers of this session will discuss the hedging implication of the proposed AG 43/VM-21 and C3 Phase II framework. Additionally, methodology computational requirements, back-testing results under different economic scenarios and the resulting hedge credits of different hedging strategies will be compared, including explicit dynamic hedge and implicit dynamic hedge. The speakers will also touch on the impact of rebalance frequency on the performance of dynamic hedge. Case studies will be presented to provide guidance on practical implementation.

Description: Discover investing trends across the life and health industry as insurers seek to navigate rapidly changing rate and market environments. BlackRock will present results from its Peer Risk Study, which models industry holdings based on statutory filings at the CUSIP level. Through the Aladdin risk modeling software, expect a production of deep insights into insurer portfolio risk and return characteristics, as well as exploring how they have evolved. Keep an eye out for a partner to present on the evolution from their perspective. Start learning about what is happening on the asset side of the balance sheet across the industry.

Description: Come discuss modeling costs and its governance, as well as introduce some platforms for more granular asset modeling.

Description: Gather with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, pension, investment, product strategy, and more.

Description: Come discuss how reinsurers can work side by side with insurer to better develop products, and lift in the areas that reinsurers have more experience, help matching products with distributions (or vice versa) and provide advanced technologies associated with tools and software. The speakers will also present Direct to Consumer plan from various points of view, i.e., distributors, carriers, and reinsurers. Some case studies will also be presented where traditional reinsurers and asset-intensive reinsurers helped insurers bring products to life.

Description: Look beyond traditional reinsurance arrangements. Strategically crafted reinsurance structures can support new business and achieve a wide range of risk management and financial objectives. Consider creative ways to look holistically at your business to develop the most effective solutions. Combine in-force and new business? Yes! Individual and group? Of course. Multiple product types? That can work! Whether you are trying to free up capital, address an underperforming block or venture into a new line of business, there are reinsurance structures that can help. Look at a virtual case study with a panel of experts and consider the options for selecting and structuring a reinsurance transaction. View key elements such as scale, composition and market appetites. Look at a variety of products including life, annuity, PRT and long-term care. The panel includes representation from a carrier, a reinsurer and a reinsurance broker. Get the opportunity to weigh in on decision points using online polling software, whether in person or virtual.