Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) retained Milliman, Inc. (Milliman) to conduct a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on long-term care (LTC) insurance mortality, voluntary lapse, and morbidity experience. The results of this survey, which was conducted from August 2021 through September 2021, are presented in this report.

Description: This research utilized an interview-based approach that delves into the utilization of alternative data in the Australian life and health insurance markets.

Description: Meet Christine Hofbeck. Christine is pushing the boundaries of traditional life and general insurance by finding problems and fixing them with new technology, modeling methods and sources of data. Most recently, she built a predictive analytics team at one of the world's largest financial services institutions to support the pricing team for a $5 billion portfolio covering life, disability, critical illness and more.

Description: This article details different methods for calculating mortality impact associated with new underwriting programs. A common simplified calculation is compared and contrasted with two first principles approaches. The strengths and weaknesses of both approaches are discussed.

Description: A look back over 20 years to see how product topics of the day have changed and remained the same.

Description: The life insurance industry has experienced dramatic changes since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. Growing competition, a rise in online shopping, and the impact of COVID-19 have all led to an increase in contactless and completely digitized life insurance options. At Policygenius, we wanted to dig deeper into these big industry changes and better understand how they affect life insurance buyers. What our 2022 life insurance trend report found was a changing industry, making tremendous strides, and creating even better pricing and policy options for customers.

Description: Introduction to ILA Module.

Description: Investigate the importance of collaboration with accounting, underwriting, sales, marketing and other professions as an actuary when you attend this webcast. Cross-functional positions can cause unique challenges to arise, like various experts attempting to balance growth and profitability. Discover an opportunity to learn about relevant ASOPs and dive deeper into contemporary examples that highlight specific professionalism issues that can develop.

Description: There are a number of ways insurers can deploy their capital. Lately the chase for yield, the need for long-tailed risk optimization, and a refocusing on core competencies have driven recent capital trends in the industry. M&A activity has been hot lately, private equity firms have grown their involvement in the industry, and insurers have continued to innovate in their funding of new business strain and investment into customer experience. In this session we will discuss these trends as we study insurer capital optimization through M&A, offshore, and structured reinsurance.

Description: What if a blood test can detect more than 50 types of cancer, including those in early stages? A biotech company, GRAIL, has developed the first-to-market Multi-Cancer Early Detection test and launched it for commercial use in 2021. Join us to learn how Munich Re and GRAIL are partnering to bring its Galleri test to the life insurance industry. You will also explore how we as an industry can help save lives by detecting cancer earlier and share perspectives on some early findings and cost-benefit analysis