Description: The war for actuarial talent is intensifying, amplified by an existing mid-level talent gap and increased competition from outside industries. As insurers continue to experience “Great Reshuffle,” effectively retaining junior and mid-level actuaries and growing them into future leaders is vital for long-term success. Actuarial leaders must be strategic in how they demonstrate commitment to their employees’ futures and proactive in providing clear career pathing and development opportunities within their organizations. Discuss common characteristics and expectations of younger generations, the skillsets essential for tomorrow’s leaders, the role professional development plays in retention, and ways to effectively support their growth and advancement to build long-term loyalty. Gain insight into specific actions to maintain open and honest conversations with your teams, uncover employees’ career aspirations, and grow vital interpersonal skills among high potential employees to foster a bench of future leaders who can think beyond the numbers and provide broader enterprise impact. By attending the session, you will:•Understand the values and characteristics common to younger generations, while recognizing and emphasizing individual needs.•Uncover how to identify and support individual employee’s professional aspirations to increase retention.•Identify the skills that separate good actuaries from great leaders and how they can be developed.•Leverage strategies and tools to grow future leaders and help close the mid-level talent gap within their own organizations.

Description: Based on a late 19th century analysis, life insurance premiums were once differentiated by race, with Blacks/African Americans experiencing higher rates than for whites. Over time, the actuarial profession has had increasing focus on professionalism and responsibility to the public, and today all members of the five actuarial organizations based in the U.S. are subject to the Code of Professional Conduct. Come engage in interactive discussion about how Precept 1 might help current actuaries avoid bias in our work, including when thinking about risk classifications and dealing with new technologies. By attending the session, you will be able to:- Understand the importance of Precept 1 in our self-governing profession.- Think about prevailing conventional wisdom and potential bias in your current work.

Description: Reunite with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, IFRS 17, product strategy, cross-border communication and discussion, and more. Advance your career through learning and networking opportunities, and share your experiences in the finance and insurance industries, as well as other fields related to actuarial science.

Description: Article describes accomplishments as Chair during the year. Four accomplishments are mentioned: i) Actuarial Research Conference ii) Early Career Award, iii) Establishment of Outstanding Educator Award, iv) Push to create surveys from the section containing a reservoir of ideas that can be used for webinars, podcasts, etc.

Description: Chairperson's welcome to the RS and thoughts about our future.

Description: News from the Chair of the SOA International Section

Description: Self-management is your ability to use awareness of your emotions to stay flexible and direct your behavior positively. When you understand what you are feeling, you can effectively choose how to react. Knowing your individual tendencies can help you prepare for future events by consciously deciding to change or adjust your behavior when certain situations occur. The article shares strategies, examples and personal insights to illustrate how to develop the skill of self-management.

Description: A real life situation is posed involving a management, leadership, or other business decision, and readers are invited to submit the irresponses to "What Would You Do?" This issue’s case study involved a staff performance issue faced by an actuary new to management.

Description: Defining fairness for life insurance processes is complex and challenging as well as subjective. The Society of Actuaries Research Institute submits to the public discourse this summary of the challenges and complexities involved in trying to define fairness for life insurance processes in the United States.

Description: Discover the rapidly developing health and wellness industry during the Use of Health and Wellness Data in L&H Risk Assessment webcast. Our discussion includes the maximization of data usage through several different means, including current risk selection, creation of a dynamic ongoing assessment offering or substitution of traditional underwriting information to shorten the underwriting process. Come explore these different approaches as they affect the health and wellness industry. We will express the importance of a constantly changing data usage environment in order to better prepare insurers to maximize their data and drive health and wellness forward.