Description: Sustainable Development is an increasingly common term that is used to refer to a variety of areas: environmental sustainability, the UN’s sustainable development goals, and climate risk resilience. This panel will discuss the meaning of Sustainable Development in today’s context and explore the critical role that actuarial science plays in this area globally. Panelists will include current practitioners in the sustainable insurance, climate risk, SDG, and ESG spaces.

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: How is extreme weather impacting you? If you live in California, you may have been impacted by the atmospheric rivers unleashing record-breaking rain and snow last winter. If you live in Canada or near Canada, you may have been impacted by the wildfires raging last spring. NASA has declared that the summer of 2023 was the hottest on record. Americans are noticing these changes. In a survey conducted by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute, the majority of Americans have reported that extreme weather events-including hurricanes, tornadoes, heatwaves, wildfires, and flooding-have had negative impacts on their health (53%), property (51%), communities (58%) and feelings of general safety (65%). In this session, the presenters will discuss the science behind climate change and the associated risk. At the end of this session, participants will be able to: - Define key terms relating to climate change - Describe the causes of climate change - Describe the impact of climate change our ecosystem, property, and population health. - Describe the impact of climate change on the day-to-day work of actuaries

Description: "Driving Longevity Through Educational Attainment – Robert L. Brown – Ph. D. Higher Age U.S. Mortality By Education and Cause of Death Trends, Inequality and Controllable Risk Factors – Andrew J. G. Cairns – MPA Ph.D., Maxwell Institute for Mathematical Sciences, and Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, Cristian Redondo Lour´es, Ph.D., Actuarial Solutions,"

Description: As the size of the life reinsurance market in Bermuda has grown to over half a trillion dollars at the end of 2021, more and more actuaries are getting involved with this 21 square mile North Atlantic island in one way or the other. Come explore a fundamental understanding of the Bermuda solvency framework and an overview of its upcoming changes.

Description: Explore the value and cost of prescription drugs, how they should be defined and measured and the effects various stakeholders in the pharmacy ecosystem can have on these factors in the latest webcast. You'll investigate the impact of coverage, formulary and rebate negotiations and related benefit design. Find out how actuaries can answer questions related to the prescription drug industry, in addition to improving the access, quality and affordability of prescription drugs in the United States. Join us for this webcast and come learn about value-based contract design, negotiations, implementation and administration for prescription drugs.

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: In this session, you will be exposed to new innovations in the insurance industry around the world.

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: The market and regulatory environment may be different from place to place, but the business problems insurance professionals encounter are similar no matter where they are. Our panelists hail from diverse markets in Europe and Asia. They will share details of their distinct approaches to common issues such as regulatory and rating agency capital requirements, lapse and longevity risk. Enjoy looking at how solutions from other markets can be applied at home, whether 'home' is the U.S., Asia or elsewhere. Key learning objectives include: - Understanding the ways unique approaches--such as stop loss reinsurance-can be applied to freeing up capital - Developing a fundamental understanding of asset-intensive structures, which are common in the U.S., and how they can be used in Asia and other markets - Exploring the market forces that make longevity reinsurance so popular in the U.K. but not in the U.S.