Description: Panelists from the home-based care industry will discuss the latest technology and services that enable and prolong the receipt of formal and informal care at home for the elderly and delay transitions to care facilities.

Description: General Session VI

Description: In this interactive forum, presenters will share best practices to get the most out of your AU program. Explore trends in regulations, big data tools and predictive models. Case studies will be used to illustrate how monitoring results can provide actionable information for management to update programs and what it all means for accelerated underwriting programs. Attendees will come away with a better understanding of how tools are evolving, regulatory trends and best practices for explaining decisions to applicants, as well as targeted changes to accelerated underwriting programs

Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: This article summarizes five key lessons we have learned in implementing LDTI and shares our insights on practical ways to address them. This is not an exhaustive list of implementation challenges, but companies that can successfully tackle the issues we describe should have a smoother data and systems implementation transition.

Description: This paper presents the recursive definition of the aggregate claims distribution which does not require the usual computation of the convolutions of the distribution of claim amounts. It is independent of the number of lives in the group. which makes it particularly useful for large groups. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: A discussion on technology improvements in establishing compliance with sections 7702 and 7702A. The Internal Revenue Code defines life insurance using actuarial tests that limit the investment in a life insurance contract as compared to the death benefit. Inadvertant failures of the actuarial tests can be uncovered by testing in order to enable remediation.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute, in collaboration with Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, a leading global life and health reinsurer, announced findings from new research on behavioral science for the life insurance sector. This research simulated online term life insurance purchasing to test behavioral science techniques.

Description: Discover an introduction to decomposing differences in life expectancy by age and cause of death. Take a look into demographic techniques that decompose life expectancies at birth and older ages into the portions contributed by later age groups and causes of death-. These have been in existence for some time and provide a convenient device for analyzing mortality change over time as well as differences between sexes, countries, and ethnic groups. The methods will be described and illustrated by spreadsheet examples.

Description: "Population Aging, Global Climate Change and Social Security – Sally Shen, Research Associate, Global Risk Institute, John A. Turner, Ph.D., Director, Pension PolicyClimate Change and Mortality Time for Actuaries to Pay Attention – Sam Gutterman. FSA, CERA, FCAS, FCA, HONFIA, MAAA"