Description: Overview of market trends impacting the group benefits space in Canada and the implications for insures as they prepare for future evolving industry dynamics.

Description: Technology is transforming the retirement space and more changes are expected in the future. Join a panel of experts to discuss what are the opportunities, trends and challenges associated with new technologies in the retirement landscape and how it is expected to impact consumers, if we can enable their successful integration.

Description: Ensuring employees retire with adequate benefits is an ever-growing challenge. During this webcast, we will highlight key insights from the fields of behavioral economics and data analytics that can be utilized to better equip employees for retirement. Areas of focus will include inherent biases that people exhibit and how employers can use these biases to design plan features that will nudge their employees towards making better decisions for their futures.

Description: Pension risk transfer (PRT) has increasingly been a focus of private sector pension plan sponsors over the past decade. The U.S. PRT market had a record-breaking 2021. There are a few forms of PRT, and the data challenge applies to all of them. As an insurer, winning the PRT business is only the first step. There are more challenges when incorporating the data from an outdated admin system into the valuation system. A lot of manual intervention is needed for many companies, which brings different issues. Under LDTI, insurers also need better assumption management. By attending the session, you will: - Understand better different types of penstion risk transfer. - Understand the common challenges insurers face when taking on new PRT business. - Comprehend data-driven solutions that leverage different technologies to automate the reporting process. - Learn additional requirements related to PRT under LDTI.

Description: This section presents book reviews and summaries of recent publications on a variety of topics.

Description: This fifth call for essays aimed to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective retirement planning tools, products, and strategies to assist individuals, financial advisors, employers and other stakeholders. The goal was to meet two objectives: (1) identify retirement risks, and (2) how to better plan for and maintain a secure retirement.

Description: Reunite with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, IFRS 17, product strategy, cross-border communication and discussion, and more. Advance your career through learning and networking opportunities, and share your experiences in the finance and insurance industries, as well as other fields related to actuarial science.

Description: Gather with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, pension, investment, product strategy, and more.