Description: With the evolution of long term care benefits in the insurance space, how does a customer know what product to choose? This webinar will present various ways someone can protect themselves with LTC insurance policies and riders.

Description: Following recent SOA Research, we look at how climate scenarios will affect Long Term Care assumptions and business.

Description: Private LTC insurers are paving the way for value-based care through working to implement care management programs that improve the lives of their policyholders before and during a claim. However, measuring the effectiveness of these new programs is a challenging task. In this article, we will explore powerful tools that can enhance traditional effectiveness studies and address some of their existing weaknesses.

Description: This session will focus on how companies can use innovative approaches to managing their Long Term Care (LTC) blocks. It will focus on utilizing external data and machine learning to identify which strategies are likely to be more successful on particular blocks of business. The attendees will learn how they can better use data to improve future financial outcomes in their blocks.

Description: Mortality data and results for care home residents in England and Wales. Looking at numbers of death may indicate that there are fewer rate, but diving deep into various sub segments and looking at death rates, tells a different story.

Description: The risk/delivery/protection framework was first presented to participants in the SOA's Long-Term Care Think Tank seminar in a survey. That survey was designed to get participant opinions on how the system might evolve over the next five to 10 years. The results of the survey are summarized in the article.

Description: In this discussion Arun Paul discusses the critical assumption of persistency in Long-Term Care insurance. This is a key driver in LTC pricing and reserve settling. Persistency is categorized into active mortality (for non-disabled policyholders), disabled mortality (for those on claim), and voluntary lapse rates. The conversation explores how active mortality is influenced by aging policyholders and the evolving demographics. It also delves into the patterns of disabled mortality, which tend to have an initial spike in the early claim period. Finally, Arun, discusses the impact of low lapse rates on LTC products, leading to increased costs for carriers and the introduction of options like rate increases and benefit buy-downs for policyholders. Contributors: Arun Paul, FSA MAAA, Juliet Spector FSA MAAA, Jeremy Hamilton FSA MAAA, Matt Morton, FSA MAAA , Jon Forster ASA MAAA

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.

Description: This webcast offers “must know” information and differing perspectives on key IRS procedures that can be utilized by insurance companies to address complex tax issues and situations.

Description: At this engaging professionalism webcast, be prepared to reflect on the values of the actuarial profession and in particular the actuarial standards of practice related to long-term care.