Description: Discover a comparison of U.S. and international mandated leave programs which mandate employers to provide a minimum level of benefits to employees for qualifying leaves of absence, such as parental leave or medical leave.

Description: "Our Climate Risk Modeling for Life actuaries session will discuss: - The history and future of climate regulations - Climate risk modeling 101 - intersection of short term and long term climate modeling - The role of the actuary in climate risk modeling - The impact actuaries can have globally"

Description: As the size of the life reinsurance market in Bermuda has grown to over half a trillion dollars at the end of 2021, more and more actuaries are getting involved with this 21 square mile North Atlantic island in one way or the other. Come explore a fundamental understanding of the Bermuda solvency framework and an overview of its upcoming changes.

Description: This session delves into Actuarial Fairness and compares it to other fairness concepts within the context of retirement savings, exploring how these ideas influence behaviors among retirees. We explore how immediate financial pressures and complex financial decisions impact people's willingness and capability to save for retirement. The session will also review traditional retirement solutions and innovative alternatives, assessing how each aligns with fairness principles. Drawing parallels from public discourse on resource distribution in sectors like healthcare, we discuss broader implications of fairness in financial regulations and impacts on policy and decision-making in retirement planning. Learning Outcomes: Attendees will be able to: - Understand the application of fairness concepts, including Actuarial Fairness, to retirement income products. - Explore how perceptions of fairness influence retirement saving behaviors, examining personal finance challenges and the regulatory environment. - Assess innovative retirement solutions' roles in promoting fairness while upholding actuarial integrity. - Analyze the influence of legislation and public policy on the conceptualization, communication, and implementation of fairness in retirement products.

Description: Appointed actuaries are facing a number of changes in the regulatory landscape. Some of these occurred in the past few years, such as Actuarial Guideline (AG) 51 (Asset Adequacy Testing for Long-term Care Insurance). Some were very recently put in effect and are evolving, such as AG53 (Modeling and Documentation of Complex Assets). Some are quickly approaching, such as the potential changes to asset adequacy testing requirements for reinsurance ceded by life insurers.

Description: Dive into the recent updates to the Bermuda Market and how this may impact current and future market players. Learn more about the Bermuda reserving and capital requirements and how the recent Bermuda Consultation Paper may impact the industry.

Description: This session will explore the financial health of rural hospitals, especially as it relates to the impact of payer cost containment strategies and government policies. Since 2005, more than 100 rural hospitals have closed and 600 more are at risk.

Description: Discussion on approaches within defined contribution retirement plans to provide retirement income as well as thoughts of how retirement plans might be structured in the future that employers will adopt that focus on retirement income delivery.

Description: The SOA has been interested in financing of long term care for many years. As part of this interest, they approved a state-based research effort in the chosen location of Minnesota. Join authors of the research as they present their findings . The research effort looked at stakeholder responses in Minnesota to several designs that would create a state-based catastrophic long-term care insurance program. The conceptual work was based on efforts by Cohen, Feder and Favreault using the DYNASIM model created by the Urban Institute. Catastrophic coverage would be provided after a variable waiting period based on income. Private resources, including long-term care insurance, would be expected to cover the front end. (Persons on Medicaid would continue to have their gap coverage provided by that program).

Description: In light of recent regulatory developments and international best practices, the Bermuda Monetary Authority has introduced proposed enhancements to the Bermuda regulatory framework for long-term commercial insurers. During this panel discussion, discuss the potential impacts of these proposed regulatory changes for existing commercial insurers and new entrants to the Bermuda life reinsurance market.