Description: Review of paper describing Collective Defined Contribution Plans. the elimination of traditional pensions by many companies have left employees without easy access to reliable retirement income Collective Defined Contribution plans which are used to a small extent in the US but more broadly used elsewhere offer an option for consideration.

Description: Article reviews the data a year into the unwinding of continuous coverage provisions in Medicaid, the impact on enrollment counts, how capitation rates have been adjusted, and compares those results to what has been modeled with the SOA Mediciad Unwinding model.

Description: This e-course will introduce you to a set of advanced business analytic techniques. We define advanced business analytics as a set of tools and techniques to assist in key business decisions.

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 Generalized Linear Model (GLM) and describe how GLM can be applied as a business tool in life insurance. The session would also focus on case-studies sharing across different functional areas such as pricing, fraud detection, underwriting, product development and other real-world applications.

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.