Description: This article series highlights the growing impact of climate change on health, property, and financial institutions, emphasizing the need for actuaries and risk analysts to evaluate and adapt their practices to manage evolving climate-related risks.

Description: This article series highlights the growing impact of climate change on health, property, and financial institutions, emphasizing the need for actuaries and risk analysts to evaluate and adapt their practices to manage evolving climate-related risks.

Description: This paper on bancassurance in India discusses some of the salient developments of banks in India, how the lack of coordination between bank regulation and insurance regulation created confusion in the development of bancassurance, the main problems facing banks in India, and some of the long term drivers of bancassurance in India. From Actuarial Research Clearing House, 2006.

Description: New tools for managing insurance risk have particularly emerged in the 1980s and 1990s, usually with roots in the financial markets. A strong motivating factor has been the record number of natural catastrophes and their impact in insured losses. New organization or joint ventures have been created to meet this demand. From Securitization of Insurance Risk: The 1995 Bowles Symposium, M-FI97-1.

Description: This article contains the statistics of the equity premium or market risk premium [MRP] uses in 2011 for 56 countries. The paper also contains the references used to justify the MRP and comments from persons that both use and do not use MRP.

Description: This article discusses the new profession of financial engineering and the fit of actuaries in this profession.

Description: This article gives an overview and explanation of behavioral finance.

Description: IFRS 17 is transforming insurance financial reporting around the world, and Latin American markets are at different stages of adoption and implementation. This webinar will provide an overview of the IFRS 17 standard and explore its practical implications for insurers in Latin America, with a particular focus on current practice and industry experience. This webinar is for actuaries, actuarial teams, and other supporting roles working with IFRI reporting requirements and IFRS 17 reporting standards applicable to insurance products. The discussion will be of interest to actuaries and other professionals working in or with insurance companies, especially in Latin America and other Spanish speaking markets, including those in life, general insurance (P&C), health, and reinsurance. The content is suitable for a wide range of experience levels, from early career to senior practitioners with responsibility for financial reporting, valuation, or risk management under IFRS 17. If you are IFRS implementer regardless of the stage of implementation or an IFRS practitioner, this session is for you! Come learn about the resources from the SOA that can support your work, including an IFRI Certificate that offers a recognition of your skills and knowledge of this area. There will be an opportunity to ask questions in the Q & A part of the session. The webinar will be conducted in English with an option to submit questions in English or Spanish.

Description: In this webcast, two points of view are presented - Seven Life Defining Decisions, which presents an individual perspective on lifetime financial choices, and Life-Cycle Fund Design, which discusses the design of a comprehensive life-cycle fund model that includes human capital risk, longevity risk, bequest motive, parameter uncertainty, and different types of annuities and provides a model for financial risk.

Description: Presenters will discuss difficulties within the new NAIC ESG, such as how the model deals with interest rate flooring and its treatment of the linkage between equity and treasury bond returns. They will also discuss the documentation and governance process surrounding the new NAIC ESG.