Description: ALM actuaries are critical to insurance companies and pension funds—monitoring ALM positioning, measuring risk exposures, and informing the investment decision making process. However, there are opportunities for actuaries to further increase their impact by expanding their scope and embedding actuarial expertise throughout the investment lifecycle. This session will cover new and enhanced ALM techniques to improve ALM risk and return outcomes, including better integration of credit and market risk measurement, and enhanced liability-driven investing strategies.

Description: Leadership lessons for actuaries. Insights into what Asset Intensive Reinsurance is all about.

Description: Collateralized Loan Obligations have been around since the 1980’s, but recently have become a hot topic in the insurance industry. Join a panel of experts for an introduction to the asset class, covering areas such as the history of CLOs, why they’ve become more popular recently, the risks and returns of the asset class, and how actuaries can learn more.

Description: Sales of index-linked annuities such as FIAs and RILAs have been setting new records while sales of traditional VAs have been declining. This webcast will survey the latest generation of FIA and RILA products, examining the impact of the current market environment and how the landscape is expected to change when the FED starts cutting interest rates.

Description: The rising interest rate environment has presented more attractive alternatives for VA risk management, but the benefits of different strategies can vary significantly by block of business. This session will highlight key drivers for risk management decisions for variable, fixed index, and registered index-linked annuities. With the viewpoints from different direct writers, reinsurers and preliminary findings of the 2024 Milliman Derivatives Study, the session will then show how product mix, tenure, and regulatory regime influence strategic decision-making. At the end of the session, the audience will help make strategic decisions on sample blocks of business and see how their choices play out in different hypothetical scenarios.

Description: The SOA and American Academy of Actuaries announce updated financial planning tool for retirement.

Description: This session will discuss the macro-economic impact (tariff/changing interest rate environment/government fiscal policy and etc.) on the insurance industry. We will relate this to the actuarial function such as corporate strategy/risk management/product pricing & marketing

Description: In recent years, the popularity of Bermuda has extended beyond tourism to becoming one of the world's reinsurance capitals. Listen in and contribute to a discussion on the benefits of Bermuda reinsurance and how that may be dependent on various factors (e.g., legal entity structure, product lines and investment strategies). We'll also talk about the challenges carriers have observed in the rising and volatile interest rate environment and how carriers are working through these challenges. And join the conversation about the future of Bermuda reinsurance in light of emerging changes from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA). Leave this session with an understanding of: - Bermuda reinsurance methodology and framework - How carriers are optimizing their business in Bermuda - The challenges posed in the current economic environment

Description: Much has been published about the increased financial statement volatility under U.S. GAAP Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI). Discover more about tools and techniques that actuaries and other financial reporting professionals can use to reduce volatility risk and understand the relationships between certain risks and volatility. By attending the session, you will learn to identify sources of financial statement volatility under LDTI and methods to manage or reduce the volatility.

Description: On January 12, 2023, the Arizona Blockchain Applied Research Center (AZ BARC) and the SOA Research Institute jointly ran a workshop on the use of blockchain technology in insurance and financial industries. The workshop included presentations focused on academic research in the blockchain space by Arizona State University, AZ BARC and an industry expert panel assembled by the SOA Research Institute. This document summarizes the research highlights and the discussions that occurred during the two-hour workshop.