Description: Long-duration targeted improvements (LDTI) will have unique consequences for long-term care and disability income. Discuss how to address these issues and learn more aboutboth standalone and combination LTC contracts. Understand the impact of LDTI on DAC, policies which previously held zero active life reserves, and allocation of IBNR to cohorts. By attending the session, you will: - Be able to create and defend accounting policies and to implement actuarial models consistent with the new U.S. GAAP accounting rules.

Description: This session features a moderated discussion between medical professionals who are experts in long-term care. The presenters are outside the LTC insurance industry altogether, which will ensure that attendees receive a truly external perspective.

Description: Find out more about the inforce product rate management process for health and LTC products. Requirements can vary by state, by issue era, and by product type and in some cases require filings to certify compliance on a regular basis. Discover recent trends in inforce rate management in the industry, including any changes seen coinciding with COVID-19 and its impacts to the regulators. By attending this session, you will be able to: • Describe or perform an inforce rate management for health products. • Understand the applicable state regulations. • Be informed of current industry trends for this work.

Description: This article discusses the expansion of benefits supporting long-term care services in Medicare Advantage plans

Description: This article is a review of Howard E. Winklevoss and Alwyn V. Powell's Continuing Care Retirement Communities: An Empirical, Financial and Legal Analysis. The book discusses the actuarial aspects of a CCRC, especially the establishment of fee structures.

Description: Predictive Analytics and Epigenetics are two of the most impactful driving forces for the future of healthcare, precision medicine, and insurance. Learn why this is true, how if will change the way our industry operates, and how you can stay viable and contribute to the betterment of humanity while also protecting the actuarial profession from obsolescence. Learn how personalized medicine keying off genetic testing is saving life insurers big dollars. The only limit seems to be testing access for their insureds.

Description: Dive into the challenges of practitioners working across components that make up the Risk Management infrastructure with a variety of health, life and P&C insurers in this panel discussion webcast. Panelists will highlight how these insurers operate with the data and tools available to them and the existing challenges in interactions with an organization's leadership. Be part of this webcast that delves into the interplay between first- and second-line defense and how high levels of independence and professionalism can be achieved in a fast-moving, multi-discipline cross functional ERM role.

Description: This excerpt is from a presentation done by a panelist at the Intercompany Long-Term Care Insurance Conference Association closing session in Chicago in March. We can never fully express our thanks to the Alzheimer’s Association and Tom Doyle for the courage to share his moving story and optimism for the future.

Description: This is an introduction to the SOA call for essays around risk strategies pertaining to the diverse risks found in retirement. We are pleased that these essays can be included in this issue of Pension Section News, along with a short interview with each author.

Description: The presenters will discuss recent regulatory changes that allow some long-term care benefits to be included in Medicare Advantage plans. Hear an overview of what has become available in the market and what might happen in the near future.