Description: An actuary striving for a broad leadership role needs to build strong communication and influencing skills, as well as strategic and general business skills. They must be able to quickly adapt to being submerged in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment. This workshop is intended to educate mid-level actuaries on the key characteristics that define good leaders and how to focus on building the skills necessary to successfully transition into a leadership role. At the conclusion of this workshop, attendees will: - Be able to determine if a leadership path is right for them - Learn the key competencies that make good leaders - Understand how to build the skills necessary to move from technical expert to leader

Description: Listen to an update of the Social Security Program's financial status as presenters discuss current status and recent proposals for modifying the program. At the conclusion of the session, enjoy a better understanding of the current status of the Social Security Program, its funding status, various challenges it faces, and a variety of suggestions that have been made to overcome those challenges. By attending the session, you will be able to: - Demonstrate a deeper understanding of the financial status of Social Security. - Be better informed about the opportunities for change in the program. - Understand challenges it faces, and a variety of suggestions that have been made to overcome those challenges.

Description: At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be equipped to apply relative risk curves in their actuarial work, including the ability to examine dose-response relationships, apply population attributable fractions (PAFs), and develop customized risk models for cause-specific mortality and morbidity outcomes based on individual-level exposures to selected risk factors. These skills are becoming increasingly important as actuaries adopt novel applications of big data and dynamic health information to refine risk assessments and keep pace with global health trends.

Description: This session will uncover the mystical findings that can be uncovered when leveraging a reinsurer. Insights discussed during this session include mortality at high face amounts, interactions between lapses and mortality, mortality improvement on low face amounts, fully underwritten mortality by Resident State and more. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to identify where reinsurer data can help uncover insights, how mortality and lapse knowledge can improve product performance and what some mortality results can come from reinsurance research.

Description: This session will discuss SECURE 2.0 and the recent required minimum distribution regulations, section 7702’s floor interest rates and managing contract changes, SECURE 2.0’s rules for withdrawals from retirement plans for long-term care insurance, and issues on the horizon such as the global minimum tax and Billionaire’s tax proposal.

Description: Sign up for aone of the virtual town halls to hear from SOA leaders and volunteers about theis governance structure review project. Simply select the link for the Zoom webcast that you would like to attend, fill out the contact information and add it to your calendar.

Description: The Valuation Actuary (ValAct) Meetings empower actuaries across all practice areas for success with in-depth content on the latest valuation and financial reporting concepts. ValAct content is tailored for professionals specializing in valuation actuarial practices within the insurance and financial industries.