Description: Explore similarities between actuaries and data scientists as speakers share personal experiences on the importance of organizational structure. Attend the Actuary, Data Scientist, or Actuarial Data Scientist webcast to discover the effectiveness of partnering both of these career paths in a life insurance atmosphere. In addition to personal experiences, speakers will discuss several success stories where collaboration and connection became the key to driving innovation. Come learn about the progress these professions have caused in pricing and risk management.

Description: As AI is incorporated into more life insurance functions, take a look at the broader use of AI in insurance and how it may negatively impact the diversity, equity and inclusion efforts that need to be at the forefront of products introduced to the market. By attending the session, you will:Be able to recognize how AI may have bias coded into specific functions and how to use bias recognition and tools to minimize that impact.

Description: Recent developments in automation capability have opened the door to improvements in the way that companies are able to monitor compliance with Internal Revenue Code (IRC) Section 7702. Further automation of Section 7702 testing allows for less input, more policy testing, and significant reductions in manual processes and risks associated with them. As technology has improved, and computing power become virtually limitless, the insurance industry can take advantage of these new technologies to improve and enhance 7702 capabilities. The result can be an easier, faster and more comprehensive process that will be more scalable across products. By attending the session, you will: - Understand the basics IRC 7702 calculations and computational limitations on traditional solutions. - Identify the features that make low-code/no-code solutions unique and their uses in an actuarial context. - Apply the pros and cons of low-code/no-code (LCNC) solutions in a 7702 context.

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. In this webcast, dive into the past history of life insurance premiums and the growth of the actuarial profession due to an increasing focus on professionalism and responsibility to the public. Premiums were once differentiated upon by race, the Black/African American population experiencing higher rates. Due to the Code of Professional Conduct, all members of the five actuarial organizations based in the U.S. are now subject to this rule. This interactive discussion is meant to engage the audience in an overview of Precept 1, which might help actuaries avoid bias in their work. This includes risk classifications and dealing with new technologies. If you were able to make it to the 2022 SOA ImpACT Conference, this is a repeat of Session 2F.

Description: ClubVita Session Series Buyouts and indemnity swaps remove all the longevity risk from an underlying population. However, they can be difficult to unwind and are not very flexible or widely tradable. Explore the characteristics and product structures of indexed based longevity swaps, demonstrating how they can cover any term, how they hedge the key component of trend risk and how, with new technology developments, they could lead to a liquid market.

Description: The most recent U.S. population data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and from the U.S. Census at year-end 2021 includes the first ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. While we know the pandemic has had significant impacts on both the U.S. population and insured population mortality, we also see increased mortality due to many other non-COVID causes of death. Where are the biggest changes and what does this non-COVID excess mortality mean over the next few years? Take part as an expert panel hosts an interactive discussion to examine data from general population as well as from both individual life and group life experience studies to explore how these changes might spur innovation in underwriting, assumption setting and pricing.

Description: The way customers and advisors purchase insurance products and interact with carriers has evolved rapidly in the last decade, reflecting the changing preferences in our digital world. Join this webcast to learn from a panel of experts on how they have approached these innovations in their own actuarial work and leave with a framework to manage risk through future change.

Description: The Society of Actuaries will be offering this webinar series intended to educate and investigate aspects of life insurance, annuity, and long-term care product tax compliance. Developed by the Taxation Section, participants will be brought up to date on recent Internal Revenue Service (IRS) guidance and learn about the newest tax issues related to product design and administration. Legal, IRS and product development experts will provide vital insights into the challenges of developing and administering products within the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) and allow ample opportunities for questions and information exchange. The session will look to define the “Product Tax Compliance" and "Information Reporting" Operational Risks associated with the administration of life insurance, annuity, and long-term care products. Panelists from leading insurance companies will discuss practical, real-life situations that they encountered and strategies they have used for risk mitigation.

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: Discuss a comparison of the U.S. general and insured population mortality experience and how COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 excess deaths impacted the populations differently. Discover the population mortality experience in the UK with a focus on the recent emergence of excess deaths for non-COVID causes. The long-term implications on the insured population will also be explored. Wrap up with a discussion of different conditions of long COVID, including organ impairments.