Description: View the Exam PA December 14, 2021 Project Statement

Description: This report reviews the academic and grey literature on “cyber insurance” and “cyberactuary” across multiple disciplines.

Description: View the IAI waiver program publication.

Description: Review the list of candidates who earned Fellowship (FSA) with the Society of Actuaries in 2021.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute isdedicated to advancing education and research for the actuarial profession. Aspart of its mission, the SOA Research Institute recognizes the importance ofpartnering with colleges and universities to help develop future actuaries.With this in mind, the SOA Research Institute holds an annual Student ResearchCase Study Challenge, which provides an opportunity for teams of students toapply their actuarial skills on a real-world problem in a business setting.

Description: Increasingly, actuaries need to collaborate and partner with clinicians in order to be successful in value-based care and population health initiatives. Gaining credibility with professionals from different backgrounds, training and sometimes different objectives can be a challenge. Gain perspectives from actuaries and clinicians to discuss how to collaborate and achieve stronger results and outcomes. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Identify common scenarios where actuaries and clinicians need to collaborate. • Understand perspectives on how to partner and communicate with clinicians. • Describe successful strategies that take into account improvement of financial and clinical outcomes. • Understand how actuaries can provide valuable data to drive results and demonstrate outcomes.

Description: "Technical and analytical skills have been the main driver in the professional success you have had thus far. As you continue to advance your actuarial career, the work you do will become more complex, specialized, and likely, more important. Being able to tell a story about a project will help ensure you understand the analysis on a deeper level, will assist in more efficient communication, and will support understanding for varying levels of expertise. At the conclusion of the session, you’ll be able to: Understand the importance of visual storytelling. Identify what story you are telling given the stage of a project. Know how to tailor communication based on the audience."

Description: Investigate from many angles the variety of potential impacts of increasing inflation on actuarial products and services in the insurance and retirement industries.

Description: In summer 2021, the SOA Research Institute’s Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program sponsored a webcast examining individual life and group life emerging mortality in a COVID-19 world. Since then, Delta and Omicron coronavirus variants have fueled waves of the virus in the U.S., boosting the total number of COVID-19 deaths since the beginning of the pandemic to near the 1 million mark. Hear an update and insights into how the life insured population is faring during COVID-19 by discussing the findings from two recent SOA Research Institute initiatives. LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and TAI have collaborated to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience. Additionally, the SOA Research Institute has surveyed insurers to gather a high-level view of U.S. Group Term Life Insurance mortality results during the COVID-19 pandemic, comparing them to pre-pandemic mortality levels. The Group Term Life industry mortality results will be presented with monthly data through March 2022.

Description: The presenters in this session will highlight the SOA’s work on an updated Medicaid underwriting margin model. This research project includes the model along with a set of instructions and a paper describing the key components of underwriting margin, including cost of capital and risk margin. The model was created as a tool for Medicaid actuaries representing both MCO and State principals to determine appropriate underwriting margins components within Medicaid managed care rates. Understand a brief description of the motivation for and underlying theory behind the model. Walk through different model inputs and run through some realistic scenarios that Medicaid actuaries may encounter in where they operate. By attending this session you will be able to: • Understand the role that Medicaid underwriting margin plays in Medicaid rate setting. • Understand the key components of Medicaid underwriting margin. • Understand the factors that necessitate underwriting margins. • Understand how to incorporate appropriate Medicaid underwriting margin levels in Medicaid rate setting.