Description: Stale portfolio got your sales down? In this session, you'll learn about the latest and greatest in product development trends and innovations which you can use to refresh and revitalize your products. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will have a better understanding on market trends in product development as well as leading innovations.

Description: Tree models have been found to provide a good fit to group long term disability recovery and mortality rates. This research paper provides an overview of tree models, and details how they have been used for developing these rates.

Description: Combining an Actuarial and an Underwriting Approach, Issue No. 39.

Description: This article is the abstract from a paper that provides methods and formulas for calculating active life reserves for credit insurance.

Description: Is your development team or IT staff growing tired of last-minute requests to include additional functionality? Have you strained to explain challenging actuarial topics to non-actuarial staff for implementation? Do your teams find themselves revisiting deadlines & timelines when building solutions? During this interactive panel discussion, three technologists (two software engineering managers and one data scientist) along with three actuaries will discuss real world problems and approaches using experience from previous projects. Although the challenge of running efficient software teams is not unique to actuarial science, this webcast will discuss best practices on how to organize teams to reduce friction and context switching. Presenters will also explore unique actuarial challenges and concepts including how to address standards on data quality when building software, how to build intuitive software that meets actuarial standards and how test-driven development makes it easier to meet actuarial standards of practice.

Description: Building on our previous newsletter article (“Who Sells and Distributes”), we continue here in our attempt to define and clarify sales and distribution terms that may be confusing or misunderstood. In this article, we focus on seller and distributor compensation, which includes payments to customer-facing sales experts and separate allowances for the entities supporting those experts

Description: Moral issues behind paying for a transplant. Issue No. 46.

Description: A panel of leading reinsurance executivesprovide perspective on topics to include market capacity, cell and gene therapy, COVID-19's impact on results, syndication arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, and how reinsurers view a variety of risk transfer opportunities.

Description: The SOA’s Individual Disability Experience Committee (IDEC) has reviewed industry experience for both claims incidence and terminations. Based on this review, the committee has published two reports with experience modifiers that when applied to the 2013 IDIVT table best fit experience from 2005 to 2015. During this session, the factors and their development will be reviewed as well as their impact on active and disabled life reserves.

Description: Explore professionalism topics of specific interest to disability actuaries. It will include discussions of items such as business challenges, actuarial standards of practice, and methods to address problems in a proactive manner.