Description: Introducing the New SOA Retirement Practice Community, which is a merger of the old SOA Retirement Section Council and SOA Social Insurance & Public Finance.

Description: 2024-2025 Registered Index-Linked Annuity Contract Holder Behavior Experience Study - Data Request

Description: Article for SOA India newsletter

Description: U.S. News & World Report has named the actuarial profession one of the 100 Best Jobs for 2026, also ranking it highly among technology and STEM careers (#5 in Best Technology Jobs, #7 in STEM, and #11 overall).

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Description: Candidate Connect – 2026 ImpACT Conference

Description: Hybrid life and LTC products are growing in popularity, and reserve calculations for these products pose unique challenges. Find out how practitioners are thinking about modeling, assumption updates, and product considerations.Attendees will be able to describe today's hybrid product reserving considerations, including keys to reserving for acceleration (vs. extension and restoration) benefits, under different reserve paradigms.

Description: This is a session for liability side actuaries that want a summary of asset valuation principlesTopics to be discussed: why it's important in today's world to know both sides of the balance sheet.Discussion of yield curves including spot rates, forward rates, coupon rates and bootstrappingDiscussion of duration calculations including explanation of modified duration for contracts with embedded options, key rate durations.Summarize today's regulatory environment in the context of embedded options including MRB, VM21, and VM22Next, we will dive into duration profiles of different asset classes including, CLOs - floating rate, RMBS (negative convexity), traditional bonds, and swaps.Lastly, we will discuss risk neutral scenarios, martingale tests, and applications in hedging MRBs.