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: Life insurance products have evolved over time from the early mutual aid societies paying benefits when members died to comprehensive products covering a range of financial needs over an individual’s lifecycle. While some life insurance benefit riders have been offered for decades and are well-established, recent years have seen a number of accelerated benefit riders being introduced by carriers for a growing range of covered triggers. Join us as we discuss these acceleration and extended benefit riders, trends and innovations in the space, and discuss challenges and actuarial considerations in designing, pricing, and modelling them. We will also explore issues carriers have experienced, how to consider the interactions between these benefits and the underlying mortality coverage, reinsurance considerations, and more!

Description: Come discuss modeling costs and its governance, as well as introduce some platforms for more granular asset modeling.

Description: Learn about the innovations of life & health products and distribution in the Asia market.

Description: ClubVita Session Series Longevity trend risk still exists even for the largest portfolios. Explore the differences in longevity improvements between different populations, how to categorize subpopulations with different trend risk characteristics, and how to use this categorization to reduce longevity trend basis risk.

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.

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: We're introducing a new “cutting edge” wealth accumulation predictive framework, the predictive equity analytics (PEA) for life products (annuity, insurance, group employer benefits, retirement plan). PEA enables life insurers and policyholders to avoid market downturns and capture returns from equities (stocks, ETFs and mutual funds) predicted to increase in next one to three trade days via fund prediction advisory by insurers, additionally by individual policyholders. The capability does not exist in insurance markets nor in financial intermediary markets.

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: There is increasing industry interest in applying behavioral science to optimize product design decisions and improve outcomes for both insurers and their customers. With a growing set of options within product designs, predicting consumer behavior continues to get increasingly complex. Join this webcast for an overview of key behavioral economic concepts. Key insights will be shared from two SOA projects that explore how behavioral economic techniques can be used in various parts of the life insurance new business process and enforce management.