Description: Step into the heart of Chicago for an interactive session where you have the floor! Join a distinguished panel of health valuation actuary experts ready to field your questions and provide insights into the dynamic world of health valuation. Whether you're curious about the latest trends in health reserving, seeking advice on complex valuation challenges, or simply eager to understand the actuarial landscape better, this open forum is your chance to engage directly with industry leaders. Bring your questions and curiosity, and leave with a wealth of information and inspiration!

Description: In this video, Lisa Schilling from the Society of Actuaries Research Institute presents the challenges of estimating mortality improvement rates, emphasizing their importance in actuarial modeling for life insurance and pensions.

Description: This session guides actuaries through the key steps of building a principles-based valuation model for a life product, starting with a brief overview of key requirements in LDTI and VM-20. The focus is on practical steps: defining product specs, sourcing in-force data, gathering actuarial assumptions and incorporating economic scenarios. We'll walk through a simple term life example, prioritizing Day 1 essentials such as accurate cash flow projections and basic reserve calculations. Attendees will learn where to find critical inputs (e.g., IT for data, pricing teams for specs), how to structure a model and pitfalls to avoid. Participants will gain foundational skills to construct LDTI and VM-20 models, confidence in prioritizing model build phases and a clear starting point for sourcing inputs.

Description: SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Research Award

Description: Summary - VM-22 will be finalized during 2025, with an optional phase-in period beginning Jan. 1, 2026, and mandatory implementation by Jan. 1, 2029. This session will discuss the regulation, including background, calculations, high-level results from the field test, and other modeling, as well as key considerations and documentation for actuaries and companies as they prepare to transition their fixed annuities into a principle-based reserve framework. Attendees will better understand the new VM chapter and some of the thinking behind the decisions made.

Description: SOA Research Institute 的精算创新与技术（AIT）项目指导委员会开展了本次调研，本次调研的对象为来自全球的五百余名 SOA 会员，报告于2025年10月正式发布。本次调研旨在全面评估 SOA 精算师协会会员对生成式人工智能（Gen AI）的接纳度、应用现状及关注度；并通过深入剖析行业面临的挑战、机遇与未来趋势，为精算领域的科学决策与战略部署提供有力指导。 本调研计划在长期内每年开展一至两次，以追踪 SOA 会员 Gen AI 的使用情况、观念认知及行业准备度如何随时间的演变。每一轮调研都将提供更新的基准数据，并突出精算界内涌现的新趋势。此次初步调研的结果描绘了精算行业如何适应 AI 快速演变。受访者根据从业年限被分为三类：10年及以下、10年以上以及未知。