Description: This session will discuss key National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) activities, with a primary focus on updates to principle-based reserve valuations and appointed actuary topics. The presenters will provide insights into the current set of activities and initiatives being considered and/or adopted by the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) and the NAIC Risk Based Capital Working Group as well as Actuarial Standards Board.

Description: The surge in interest rates over the past few years presents opportunities for life insurers to enhance their Asset and Liability Management (ALM) positions through asset rebalancing to narrow the duration gap and secure higher risk-adjusted yields. This webcast introduces a robust, efficient and readily-executable, liability-driven strategic asset allocation (SAA) framework and implementation considerations. At the conclusion of the webcast, attendees will learn about the key objectives and practical considerations for a successful SAA.

Description: The Supplemental Health, DI & LTC Conference provides a unique opportunity to consider a cross-functional view of supplemental health products, individual disability insurance, and long-term care standalone and combination products.

Description: Expect to cover key points from the Living to 100 conference around living and social environments for the elderly. Following the review will be a discussion about implications related to LTCI plans and policies around living environments. It will conclude with a peak behind the curtain for pricing for CCRCs.

Description: Explore the role of inflation across health products, including medical plans, disability, and long-term care. Explore various drivers of cost trends, wage increase, and cost of care. Understand their role in the pricing and valuation of a product and how to manage the risk.

Description: Who wants to be a Millionaire - Annuity + LTC edition! Through a series of increasingly challenging questions to our contestants, we will explore the depths of annuity + LTC products! Unlike annuity + LTC customers, in this gameshow there will be a winner and there will be a loser. Through the game show format, this session will explore emerging market trends and their drivers in annuity + LTC products, including long-run structural demographic and economic forces. The panelists will also review product design and assumption development considerations, contrasting annuity + LTC products with life + LTC products. We will challenge contestants on the compliance and regulatory issues in product development. Finally, we will provide a future outlook and areas for growth in this niche market. Attendees will understand the emerging product designs, risk profiles, and market potential for annuity + LTC products, and one attendee will win a million dollars*. (*monopoly money)

Description: The research arm of the Society of Actuaries has funded two new works that will be presented. One is an actuarial model that provides tools to analyze long-term care financing reform proposals. The other is work on wellness components in long-term care insurance.

Description: The Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to make available a report describing the results of analysis into how the supply of neurology specialists for diagnosis and care of dementia relates to historical LTCI cognitive claims.

Description: The panel will discuss several product challenges including modeling hybrid/combo long-term care products, modeling benefit options that are difficult to model using deterministic methods, modeling current situs of care versus original situs of care, monitoring assumptions, streamlining experience studies within the Long-duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI) framework, and model decision making with limited credible data. The panel will then move into solutions observed to address some of the aforementioned challenges and the future of long-term care modelling

Description: As long-term care enters into its fifth decade, the product continues to evolve. Current trends as well as innovative product designs pose many challenges as carriers seeks to model long-term care.