Description: The SOA has been continuing to highlight the importance of societal purpose across the global actuarial profession, and as a way to attract and retain the next generation of amazing exam candidates and young members. This session will highlight the variety of activities that the SOA and actuaries of all ages are involved in to further drive the profession's societal purpose.

Description: Attend this webcast to learn more on how to navigate managing ESG principles in the new normal of a post-COVID world. Enhance your ESG insights in a post-pandemic landscape.

Description: Reunite with members and non-members in the China actuarial community to discuss recent topics and related issues in areas such as macroeconomic sharing, IFRS 17, product strategy, cross-border communication and discussion, and more. Advance your career through learning and networking opportunities, and share your experiences in the finance and insurance industries, as well as other fields related to actuarial science.

Description: An article summarizing the SOA Asia-Pacific Annual Symposium held June 12 - 13, 2024.

Description: President Andy Rallis speech at the SOA 2020 Virtual Annual Meeting & Exhibit.

Description: An article giving a summary of the Asia Pacific Teaching Conference that took place in Bangkok in December 2022. This article will be disseminated via SOA News Weekly, which will link to the article on soa.org.

Description: What relevance does ESG and Sustainability have for actuaries? In the Life and Health space, we know that large protection gaps persist, reminding us of the challenges reinsurers and insurers face in reaching underserved customers who are often lower-income, less healthy, and more likely to suffer impacts of climate change. The Sustainable Actuary is focused on solving these challenges to make life and health insurance more inclusive. This ImpACTful panel will dive into these challenges and provide practical case studies of more inclusive insurance products that balance considerations for people, the planet, and profit. Listeners will walk away with ideas for how to use their actuarial expertise to enable greater social impact and sustainable business value.

Description: Meet the authors and contributors of the newly published e-book Design Your Future with the Competency Framework. Hear presenters share their personal reflections, stories and words of wisdom to bring to life the eight professional and personal competencies in the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework. Join this interactive session to awaken your 'inner actuary' and identify new state-of-the-art resources and perspectives. Discover purpose, direction and value in embracing and growing the competencies for career and life.

Description: Learn from experts how to manage large projects, from managerial and technical perspectives, and drive teams to success. Actuaries are taking on more central roles over their career development, creating a need for skills to coordinate across large groups to deliver results. In this session, you will learn about the key elements within the lifecycle of a project plan that is applicable to any project, and hear from experts and your peers about examples that led to success. This is an interactive session where you will have a chance to discuss the topic with the presenters and other attendees.

Description: The topics of ESG (Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance) and sustainability are an increasing area of focus for insurance companies, and thus actuaries. This webcast provides a primer on these topics along with considerations for US valuation actuaries and their evolution in European insurance markets.