Description: Summary of upcoming seminar, scheduled for August 14-15, 2017.

Description: The presenter will share his opinion on the major and minor cycle of the global and China economy. He believes that the recovery of the major cycle depends on the resonance of politics between China and the United States, as well as reform. As the minor cycle is V-type, the weak recovery depends on policy and price increase. The liquidity regulation and the growth advance together. The economic cycle is stabilizing, monetary policy is tightening the margin and the importance of the regulation is increasing. But the increase of the economy is critical to risk controlling.

Description: General Introduction of Block Chain•This session will introduce the definition, history and current status of block chain, as well as the necessities of its development.Incorporating Block Chain into the Insurance Industry•Presenters will illustrate the significant roles, unique features and future prospects of block chain’s application in an insurance company’s operation.Actuarial Application in Block Chain Development•Experts will demonstrate what roles actuaries play and how actuarial techniques can be optimized in block chain development.The Achievements of Block Chain’s Application in Sunshine Insurance Group•This session will discuss the implementation process, as well as the remarkable achievements of block chain’s application in Sunshine Insurance Group.

Description: The NAIC has adopted revised VM-21 and AG43 for variable annuities, effective Jan. 1, 2020. The panel of presenters will provide background and an overview of the revisions, discuss detailed aspects of the new CTE Amount Standard Projection and prescribed assumptions, as well as discuss implementation considerations and the implications to hedging. In addition, the panelists will share progress on VM-23, principle-based reserves for non-variable annuities.

Description: Representing a large indexed annuity writer, the speakers will discuss the growth and evolution of the market for index annuity products. Moreover, the challenges that growth has introduced and how those challenges are being met. While much of the market consists of simple, accumulation-oriented S&P 500 based strategies with 0% return floors, a significant portion of industry sales come from more complex products with highly customized index strategies and other features, such as living benefit guarantees. Attendees will gain a broad understanding of the indexed annuity market, product and features, operational difficulties in risk management arising from product design, and how actuarial and hedge professionals are managing these issues.

Description: This practical session would provide a technical overview about GLM techniques and describe how GLM can be applied as a business tool in solving business problems in life insurance. The session would also focus on recent real-world case-studies across different functional areas like pricing, fraud detection, underwriting and product development.

Description: Manulife has been preparing on the system development for IFRS17 implementation since 2018. Manulife will start official parallel run in 2022. The purpose of this presentation was to share the valuable system development experience gained over the past 3 years. The practical cases would be shared, to discuss key areas including projection, implementation and expectation. After IFRS17 implementation, on top of being data experts, the future actuary will play an more active role in corporation analysis and strategy planning.

Description: This article introduces IT DevOps to actuaries and how it is applicable to them to improve their modeling efforts and make them more efficient.

Description: SOA interview with David Axene