Description: Read 2019 President-Elect candidate Jim Toole's Questionnaire.

Description: Necessity was the mother of invention last year in the life insurance industryas carriers rapidly implemented new underwriting programs to continue writing business in the face of logistical challenges and a global pandemic. In this session, the presenters will recap some of those challenges and the solutions carriers employed, then discuss how we can slow the pace and adopt a more proactive posture as we near the end of the pandemic. Cross-discipline perspectives will be shared on which pandemic solutions hold promise as lasting fixtures of our business along with key considerations to weigh when temporary accommodations become permanent paradigm shifts.

Description: The FAS assumptions survey from the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section.

Description: View the 2019 President-Elect Candidate page for Jim Toole for the 2019 SOA Elections.

Description: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Description: Pricing is a central activity of actuaries to assure solvency and to manage risk. Life insurance is also a social good, not just a product, and the US population is massively underinsured. Pricing must strike a balance. Unlike a simple 4x4 matrix to produce pricing, today's technology offers the ability to evaluate literally thousands of variables, enabling a kind of precision pricing. It also heightens the possibility of introducing bias and discrimination through the use of unregulated third-party data.

Description: Discusses good sources of mortality data and possible distortions in the data.

Description: Schaumburg, Ill., March 10, 2020 – The past few weeks have seen the emergence and spread of a novel coronavirus named “SARS-CoV2” that causes the respiratory disease named “coronavirus disease 2019” (COVID-19). While original detection occurred in China, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) note that the disease is now detected in 60 locations internationally, including the United States.

Description: Implementing the new data and system requirements related to LDTI bring a renewed focus on the partnership between actuarial and IT teams. This session will discuss common challenges encountered in the past couple of years of LDTI implementation and propose ways on how to ensure a strong partnership between actuarial and IT teams to implement the necessary changes for LDTI.

Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference - Session 5A: Pandemic Rewind: Risk Management and Scenario Modeling Learnings 10.26.21 Recording