Description: It happens every year: hurricanes, wildfires, and floods destroy property, interrupt routine care, and exacerbate chronic conditions. Clearly, general insurance and health actuaries need to reflect these conditions in their pricing projections even though there are lots of unanswered questions about the frequency, intensity, and location of significant events. In this session, the presenters will discuss how to reflect the impact of climate change in the day-to-day work of health and general insurance actuaries. After this session, attendees will be able to: - Describe the impact of climate change on property damage and healthcare - Identify relevant data sources and methods needed to reflect the impact of climate change for use in the day-to-day work of health and general insurance actuaries - Discuss the risk associated with climate change

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 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: A focus on the capital markets perspective and some of the products dealers offer to hedge and help mitigate capital costs and tail exposure risks. From The Actuary Magazine, April/May 2005

Description: This article discusses the use of product databases to increase response rates from direct mail campaigns. The concept includes renting name lists for a year, appending demographic information, and using a model to better target prospects.

Description: This article provides the reader with highlights from the International Actuarial Association Health Section Colloquium held in Cape Town in 2007. From Expanding Horizons, September 2007, Issue No. 37.

Description: This article discusses Jed Frees’ book in progress, “Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications” which offers a synthesized introduction to regression and time series.

Description: A Time of Change, Expanding Horizons Issue 29, June 2004

Description: A short note in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, issue 26, published in April 2003 that introduces Sheree Baker, new to the research area, to the E&R section.

Description: A short blurb in the Expanding Horizons newsletter, Issue 26, published in April 2003 that talks about the meeting minutes from the E&R section council meetings. ARC and Spring meetings were discussed.