Description: This session from the 1995 SOA New Orleans Meeting reviews trends in savings products including the Index Annuity, the CD annuity, variable life, variable annuities, modified endowment contracts - MEC and shifts in the banking industry. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 1.

Description: Panelists discuss the types of adverse selection faced by disability insurers and the manner in which companies deal with the risk in different markets. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 31, No. 2, Session 5

Description: Table of contents for the 1999 Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Seattle, Washington

Description: The presenters will discuss the range of draft repeal/repair/replace legislation proposed to date, the elements most likely to be included in the final law, and possible temporary and transitional measures to be taken. They will share their findings regarding the impact on the industry of these changes using the most up to date data and modeling available.

Description: These products effectively provide policyholders access to an equity index with an option pass-through. This new direction blurs the line between more traditional variable annuity and fixed indexed annuity products. This session will discuss these and other similar product innovations, including some interesting regulatory, accounting, and risk management considerations.

Description: The presenter will share his opinion on the major and minor cycle of the global and China economy. He believes that the recovery of the major cycle depends on the resonance of politics between China and the United States, as well as reform. As the minor cycle is V-type, the weak recovery depends on policy and price increase. The liquidity regulation and the growth advance together. The economic cycle is stabilizing, monetary policy is tightening the margin and the importance of the regulation is increasing. But the increase of the economy is critical to risk controlling.

Description: General Introduction of Block Chain•This session will introduce the definition, history and current status of block chain, as well as the necessities of its development.Incorporating Block Chain into the Insurance Industry•Presenters will illustrate the significant roles, unique features and future prospects of block chain’s application in an insurance company’s operation.Actuarial Application in Block Chain Development•Experts will demonstrate what roles actuaries play and how actuarial techniques can be optimized in block chain development.The Achievements of Block Chain’s Application in Sunshine Insurance Group•This session will discuss the implementation process, as well as the remarkable achievements of block chain’s application in Sunshine Insurance Group.

Description: Companies can implement VM-20 as early as 2017. While there have been research and educational materials produced to help actuaries and others better understand the implications and implementation of the new requirements from a financial reporting perspective, little has been developed emphasizing the product development actuary perspective. This SOA research project examines the impact of VM-20 from a product development actuarial perspective. The research will help actuaries and others enhance current practices to optimize pricing and product development activities within a VM-20 framework as well as enhance intracompany communication and efficiencies related to VM-20. This session is a follow-up to the session at last year’s symposium and will focus on Phase 2 of the research project.

Description: The session will talk about Management expectation and key development areas of Big Data, overview of big data application in the life insurance industry.

Description: Advice and lessons learned from two industry leaders on how to account for organizational culture and strategy, InsurTech, and customers in order to build a winning environment for innovation and execution.