Description: Discover an introduction to decomposing differences in life expectancy by age and cause of death. Take a look into demographic techniques that decompose life expectancies at birth and older ages into the portions contributed by later age groups and causes of death-. These have been in existence for some time and provide a convenient device for analyzing mortality change over time as well as differences between sexes, countries, and ethnic groups. The methods will be described and illustrated by spreadsheet examples.

Description: "Population Aging, Global Climate Change and Social Security – Sally Shen, Research Associate, Global Risk Institute, John A. Turner, Ph.D., Director, Pension PolicyClimate Change and Mortality Time for Actuaries to Pay Attention – Sam Gutterman. FSA, CERA, FCAS, FCA, HONFIA, MAAA"

Description: Delves into the impact of rising interest rates on annuity product management, with a focus on the challenges of disintermediation and implications to hedging. Learn about in-force management actions, best practices for managing annuities in a changing environment and associated risks. Explore how companies are revising their hedging strategies to adapt to shifting market conditions and regulatory framework changes. Gain a comprehensive understanding of the relation between rising interest rates and disintermediation, its financial and business impacts, and strategies for managing business and setting assumptions during periods of high disintermediation. Come away with practical strategies for optimizing returns, minimizing risks, and navigating the challenges and opportunities associated with annuity product management in the current interest rate environment.

Description: LDTI's roll forward disclosure requirements include line items for the impact of actual variances from expected experience (A/E) for both net premiums and benefits. These aggregate A/E amounts provide some insight into how actual experience is emerging relative to expectations, but they do not provide insight into either the drivers of the deviations or their significance.

Description: Discover investing trends across the life and health industry as insurers seek to navigate rapidly changing rate and market environments. BlackRock will present results from its Peer Risk Study, which models industry holdings based on statutory filings at the CUSIP level. Through the Aladdin risk modeling software, expect a production of deep insights into insurer portfolio risk and return characteristics, as well as exploring how they have evolved. Keep an eye out for a partner to present on the evolution from their perspective. Start learning about what is happening on the asset side of the balance sheet across the industry.

Description: Dive into the released enhancements of MIM-2021, including a run through of its purpose and evolution, during this webcast. The Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program plans to release these updates in October. You will leave this webcast with an understanding of how to create a mortality improvement scale using the necessary steps and tools. Learn how to use MIM-2021 through instruction and demonstration that will properly prepare you to utilize this tool. There will be time for questions where you can ask about the projection process or provide feedback.

Description: The session will discuss key areas of statutory reserving that contain some ambiguity or areas where there are simplifications being used in the industry. The content will be based on current practices used in the industry and possibly accompanied by an industry survey to be completed prior to the session. The focus will be heavily on CRVM, AG38, and PBR statutory frameworks and will include a Q&A portion for audience participation. Some potential topics will be reinsurance modeling, DBO3/ROP treatment, segmentation, deficiency reserves, system differences and multi-tiered designs

Description: Cayman is a rapidly growing reinsurance domicile with several notable transactions executed in the past few years. We expect this trend to persist as (re)insurers will continue to explore more effective ways to manage their business. In this session, you will gain: - An overview of how the Cayman (re)insurance market has developed over recent years - An introduction to the Cayman regulatory framework - Key considerations for reinsurance structuring and pricing. Join a discussion at the close of the session on the outlook for the Cayman market. You will leave this session with an understanding of the Cayman (re)insurance market, the regulatory framework and key factors that impact reinsurance structuring and pricing.

Description: Join a dynamic panel of accelerated underwriting (AU) experts as they discuss results from three recent AU industry surveys, including from the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and two reinsurance studies. They'll share similarities and examine differences in their findings as they cover historical trends, current practices and their outlooks on the future of this evolving underwriting paradigm. By the conclusion of the session, you will have gained knowledge on the data and trends available from these surveys, as well as understand what AU program modifications are needed to keep pace with the industry.

Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Society of Insurance Research (SIR) started developing research addressing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) topics. Join panelists as they briefly present an overview of their organization's DEI research and share their perspectives on common challenges facing all the stages of this research: - Planning relevant and timely research with a long timeline. - Getting appropriate data and resources to support your research. - Communicating research on topics that may be controversial.