Description: Investing for retirement in other countries is different from investing for retirement in the U.S. and Canada. In developing countries, there are fewer investment opportunities and domestic markets are smaller and less liquid. National retirement systems may be established in part to support government debt issuance and to help develop domestic capital markets. Investment policy objectives tend to evolve over time as a country and its retirement system(s) develop together. Come broaden your horizons by painting a picture of a different investment paradigm than you are used to using examples from many countries around the world.

Description: This session is designed to inform you about the current state of mental health and mental health care in the United States, as well as future trajectories. By exploring topics such as plan design, provider network, provider reimbursement, and other relevant channels, this session aims to enlighten everyone on existing challenges and the strategies being employed to tackle them. Notably, this will include and highlight proposed changes to the mental health parity. Additionally, attendees will hear from a mental health provider/academic on these topics to gain a non-actuarial perspective.

Description: The Living to 100 monograph is composed of the papers, essays, panel discussions, teaching and keynote sessions presented at the symposium.

Description: The Actuarial Teaching Conference (ATC) provides an opportunity for all faculty members engaged in actuarial teaching to come together, participate in learning sessions, share ideas, network with each other and learn more about the actuarial profession.

Description: The Candidate Connect at the 2024 ImpACT Meeting provides information, inspiration and networking opportunities to actuarial candidates pursuing their ASA.

Description: The SOA ImpACT Conference is the premier gathering of industry experts, employers, actuarial professionals, and thought-leaders. Save the date for the 2030 ImpACT Conference.

Description: Recent LA wildfires exemplified the devastating impacts of compounding weather extreme events. This webcast explores the inherent risk posed by various types of compounding events, proposes statistical techniques to quantify the impacts of compounding events and how this will evolve under a warmer climate. As compound events continue to evolve, it will become increasingly important to monitor and consider risk models and analyses to provide more comprehensive and accurate risk assessments and, ultimately, support more effective disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts. One way to improve preparedness is the underwriting of these risks through geospatial imagery and high-resolution image technology, which have spurred advances across many industries. The webcast will further discuss the importance of building footprint data for risk assessment and examine how building data and vegetation cover data can be used in calculating underwriting wildfire risk metrics.

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2019 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey.

Description: Based on work performed by Bob Howard, a former member of RPEC, the SOA developed a spreadsheet-based program that allows users to create a customized mortality improvement scale using the RPEC_2014 model. The RPEC_O2_v2018 model found here utilizes the same projection methodology underpinning the RPEC_2014 model except that the historical rates have been developed using “order-2” Whittaker-Henderson graduation rather than “order-3”.

Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.