Description: As the adoption of offshore reinsurance strategies continues to grow among insurers seeking to optimize their capital and balance sheets, a critical focus for both prospective and current adopters is the establishment or enhancement of existing data, technology, and modeling processes to meet offshore reporting requirements. Drawing from practical experience, this presentation aims to provide attendees with key insights for successfully producing the necessary reporting items for offshore reinsurance entities, along with considerations for operational efficiency, model and data governance, and management decision-making.

Description: The objective of this session is to help actuaries understand the impact of tax regulations on actuarial reserving and the calculation of the Value of Business Acquired (VOBA). Actuaries must ensure compliance with tax reserving requirements, assess differences between statutory and tax reserves, analyze tax treatment of VOBA in mergers and acquisitions, and evaluate their financial implications. By integrating tax considerations into actuarial modeling, insurers can optimize tax efficiency, maintain regulatory compliance, and enhance financial performance.

Description: MSA Research established a committee in 2024, to build industry-standard Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for IFRS 17. The committee was comprised of insurers, reinsurers, audit and consulting firms, professional associations, trade organizations, technology partners, and regulators.

Description: Large Language Models can help you write emails, code in SQL, R and Python, and be more efficient. But should you use it? Let's review the professional guidance available to actuaries, including the work from the Academy of Actuaries.

Description: Large Language Models can help you write emails, code in SQL, R and Python, and be more efficient. But should you use it? Let's review the professional guidance available to actuaries, including the work from the Academy of Actuaries.

Description: In this topic call, we will focus on opportunities for actuaries to flex both their entrepreneurial and innovative muscles within a standard insurance / consulting environment, with a focus on how practitioners of all levels can influence a company’s products, processes, and more. We’ll touch on how to gain buy-in and momentum for innovative ideas and how to fold this into the fabric of your day-to-day work. A companion podcast Innovation in Insurance – A Conversation with Jason Hiquet is recommended listening prior to the topic call.

Description: The podcast features Jon Forster interviewing Aree Bly, founder of Alignment Ally and author of "The Sustainable Brain," focusing on the importance of developing comfort with ambiguity for actuaries and other professionals.

Description: View information on Colorado Mesa University.

Description: SOA Outstanding Educator Award

Description: Learn more about the Thammasat University actuarial program.