Description: An update of selected key graphs from the Key Statistics section of previous COVID-19 briefs.

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

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: Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOPs) are critical to an actuary's work, but staying abreast of changes to ASOPs could be challenging. Several ASOPs have been created or updated in the last few years while ValAct was on hiatus. Are you up to date? This session will focus on ASOPs 7, 11, 28, 41 and 57. Come ready to play, as we challenge your knowledge of these ASOPs in a fun game show format. By the end of this session, attendees will learn the major provisions included in ASOPs that have been recently updated or created and understand how their work may be impacted by these recent changes.

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.

Description: Outlines a generic business model for a life insurance company and concludes with thoughts on future trends and prospects.

Description: An update of selected key graphs from the Key Statistics section of previous COVID-19 briefs.

Description: This is an article about debt protection and credit insurance as products. From Small Talk Newsletter, November 2005, Issue No. 25.

Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.

Description: Session 1C: Group Life Experience Update