Description: This report provides a methodology for identifying climate regime shifts in different scenarios to prepare insurers for the impacts of climate change. It discusses physical tipping points, socio-economic tipping points, and regime shifts affecting the insurance industry, with a focus on wildfires in California and heat stress in the Pacific Northwest.

Description: This report gives an update on the Getzen Model of Long-Run Medical Cost Trends for 2025-2035+, providing insights on key considerations, input parameters, and projections. It includes observations on long-term medical cost trends, budgetary resistance, and regulatory impacts on healthcare expenditures.

Description: The topics of ESG (Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance) and sustainability are an increasing area of focus for insurance companies, and thus actuaries. This webcast provides a primer on these topics along with considerations for US valuation actuaries and their evolution in European insurance markets.

Description: Come discuss the benefits and challenges of collaboration between academic institutions and industry stakeholders in shaping actuarial education and research agendas. Register for this event now.

Description: Actuarial projects have become more intricate, involving external resources and requests beyond the actuarial team's purview. Whether a task appears minor or exceptionally complex, adept project and change management play a pivotal role in successful execution. In this session, we explore practical strategies for tailoring implementation management approaches.

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: The Smaller Insurance Company/Chief Actuary Forum presents a unique format for focusing on issues faced by actuaries in leadership positions or actuaries supporting the Chief Actuary. By discussing critical issues with your peers, you will leave with ideas to incorporate in your business environment. The Forum will feature presentations to introduce several of the discussion topics, followed by an opportunity to break into smaller discussion groups and rotate among topics.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to educate insurance actuaries on the use of wildfire risk datasets and models to be developed by researchers from academia and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Description: "The Individual Life Experience Committee continues to unlock valuable insights from the VM51 data as the NAIC releases it. In this session, attendees will get a preview of individual life mortality patterns during COVID-19 for more than 100 companies in the NAIC data for the years 2020 to 2021, the first years of the pandemic. The session will also share early findings from the committee's latest initiatives, including the integration of predictive analytics into reporting products, assessment of simplified and accelerated underwriting, exploration of joint life mortality, evaluation of company-level differences, and continued research into old-age mortality patterns. Attendees will leave the session with enhanced knowledge for assessing best-estimate mortality for valuation purposes."