Description: Explore various aspects of the Asian reinsurance market in this webcast. Learn about the landscape within the market as speakers cover key topics like product perspectives, structured solutions and emerging trends and issues. Take an in-depth look at the post COVID-19 impact, as well as regulatory considerations that could affect the Asian reinsurance industry. Secure your spot in this opportunity and dive into the direction of this marketspace.

Description: Discover the benefits of building a shared business model during the Building Digital Platforms: Insurtechs, Carriers and Reinsurers webcast. This is an educational event for the actuary interested in product and channel innovation, in addition to those wanting to understand how to juggle competitive incentives in the market. Representatives from Insurtechs, insurance carriers and reinsurers will discuss their distribution development and product capabilities for marketing insurance products on digital platforms, as well as their collaboration throughout the process.

Description: Gain insight into lessons learned from VM-20 implementation and recent regulatory updates such as the introduction of future mortality improvement (FMI), changes to the economic scenario generator (ESG), and the recently adopted AG AAT. By attending the session, you will: •Have a high-level overview of recent VM-20 updates and hot topics, such FMI and ESG updates•Understand the challenges presented by PBR implementation, and the implications of performing multiple critical and required system updates simultaneously•Improve your understanding of the development and implications of the AG AAT

Description: As the size of the life reinsurance market in Bermuda has grown to over half a trillion dollars at the end of 2021, more and more actuaries are getting involved with this 21 square mile North Atlantic island in one way or the other. Come explore a fundamental understanding of the Bermuda solvency framework and an overview of its upcoming changes.

Description: This article discusses the structure of and the dangers posed by Stranger-Originated Life Insurance STOLI.

Description: A recap of the SOA Research Institute's participation in the NAIC Spring 2023 meeting

Description: Administration system updates and conversions. Legacy systems and their associated problems. Continued low interest rates and in-force policy management actions affecting policyholder behavior. These are but a few of the taxation challenges facing insurers managing the growing complexity of their businesses.<p> Presenters will consider these and other product taxation-related issues, highlighting ways insurers have sought to address them, their impacts, and potential mitigation strategies

Description: This article provides an alternative method to the computation of the Reduction in Benefits Test under 7702A. Part 1 provided for reduction in death benefits. Part 2 provides for reduction in Qualified Additional Benefits.

Description: State regulators continue to focus on the emergence of private equity firms purchasing life insurance companies, supporting reinsurance transactions, and the growing trend in life companies owning more complex assets. Modeling of complex assets is also growing in focus to balance risk and return parameters in forward financial models and asset adequacy testing. Hear from actuaries, regulators and rating agencies as they present the latest developments for the future of the intersection of private equity and life insurance companies and the potential for new regulatory guidance.

Description: Illustration testing can be complicated as the number of in-force illustrations continue to grow. AG 49 and AG 49-A complicate management of policies that have indexed based interest credits. This workshop will encourage discussion of practices and problems faced by companies complying with the Illustration Model Regulations, ASOP 24 and/or AG 49/AG 49-A.