Description: The life insurance industry has a lot going on. Come discover some key highlights of the life insurance market mixing quick hits with some in-depth conversations about the headlines and hard lines happening in the life insurance sector. Topics include underwriting, regulation, product changes and distribution to name a few. If you enjoy the PTI show for sports, you will enjoy hearing about the life insurance industry in this format and hosts will run down the headlines of the insurance industry in PTI fashion.

Description: Insurers have long relied on scenario analysis to understand the long-term impacts of potential business decisions, but the advent of rapidly changing market environments and a growing desire to optimize capital has spurred business leaders to leverage new tools in order to explore potential options.

Description: IUL continues to be the strongest selling UL product. Companies have great profit/pricing expectations, but are those results being achieved? Learn about potential areas of underperformance for IUL including behavior related issues, hedging inefficiency, and mortality issues. The session will also discuss ways to monitor these risks and discuss different means to address potential issues of underperformance in hedging, pricing and in force earnings.

Description: The expanded use of predictive models, algorithms, and external consumer data has drawn the attention of the life insurance industry to the matter of fairness and bias in underwriting, including proposed regulation in states like Colorado and New York and a draft NAIC Model Bulletin. Insurers will benefit taking a proactive approach to verifying that their practices, both current and future, do not result in unfair discrimination. This session will help attendees in understanding potential requirements and reporting insurers must address, techniques and tools for evaluating bias, and challenges in doing so. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Understand proposed regulation and practices regarding fairness and bias - Identify tools and techniques for evaluating bias in their processes - Discuss the challenges the industry will face in addressing fairness in underwriting

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: This article is the first in a series of articles on insurance applicant mortality risk analytics. From Small Talk Newsletter, Issue 37, January 2012.

Description: Authored by a MIB Solutions team of Tom Rhodes, Stuart Klugman, Marianne Purushotham and Stacy Gill, the report summarizes the results of a study on the application and adoption of credibility theory within the life insurance and annuity industry. This excel spreadsheet is a numerical example relating to the application of Credibility for lapses. Please see the SOA website research section for the complete research report on Credibility Theory Practices.

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute, and TAI have collaborated on an ongoing effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience and share the emerging results with the insurance industry and the public. This report documents a high-level analysis of the claims that have been reported.