Description: The Task Force for Climate Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) guidance has become the basis for the majority of climate related disclosure requirements, both in the US and around the world. Climate Risk management practices and disclosures are evolving rapidly and companies are at a wide array of stages on the journey to begin addressing climate risk. Actuaries can play a central role in helping understand and manage climate-related risks, but how do you get started?

Description: Session 8A: ORSA for Health Plans - Using ORSA to Drive Health Plan Risk Strategy

Description: Because of the short-term nature of most health insurance products, the sophistication of insurers’ capital modeling tends to lag that of longer tailed life insurers. Additionally, some health insurers treat required capital modeling as a compliance exercise. However, there is considerable value to insurers who take more thoughtful approaches to capital modeling and integrate their capital modeling outcomes into the strategic decision-making process. Gain an overview of common required capital measures, including the advantages and disadvantages of each, and see a demonstration on how some capital measures are deficient for strategic decision-making. In the second half of the session, you will examine a case study of the considerations, design, implementation, challenges and outcomes of integrating a complex economic capital model into the strategic decision-making process.

Description: Bringing together industry experts spanning investment management and property/casualty insurance, this panel discussion will take the audience beyond spelling ESG correctly and will share their insights about what Environmental Social Governance is.

Description: In this session, the panelists discuss several common cognitive biases that can adversely impact the capital allocation decision process, introducing the notions of time, accounting convention, positivity, hierarchy, and social proof in describing them. Historical case examples of sub-optimal capital allocation are then explored, identifying the contributing behavioral factors including the simultaneous confluence of multiple factors. The panelists will close the session with several suggestions for attendees to consider for incorporation into their decision-making processes. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Learn common cognitive biases that impact capital allocation decisions - Differentiate which biases impact different aspects of the capital allocation process - Build awareness of biases affecting capital allocation decision models - Mitigate cognitive biases present in decision making processes

Description: Broaden your understanding of how long-term care (LTC) is provided and brainstorm with other actuaries on ways to help society fund future LTC solutions. How we fund and provide LTC for our loved ones has changed over time and will evolve still by the time we retire. In this session we will explore the variety of ways that we fund LTC services: out of pocket and with informal care, Medicaid, lifeplan communities (Continuing Care Retirement Communities and and the Continuing Care at Home model), private LTC insurance and more. You will leave the session appreciating that providing long-term care is a key feature of our aging society and understand the variety of ways that we fund LTC today and may in the future.

Description: The U.S. life insurance industry has been increasing its exposure to complex assets, either directly as investors or via offshore reinsurance (e.g., Bermuda). In order to address regulatory concerns about such investments and reinsurance arrangements, the NAIC has begun multiple initiatives to improve disclosure and strengthen regulatory requirements, and the Bermuda Monetary Authority is also strengthening its requirements. Hear a summary of these initiatives, and get an update on the latest developments at the NAIC and at the Academy on these topics.

Description: Learn about prevalence-induced concept change and other cognitive biases. And find out how such biases can be linked to common actuarial practices (e.g., the application of the bias to stringency of enterprise risk management frameworks, in the case of prevalence-induced concept change). You should leave the session with the ability to understand how these biases could affect your work.

Description: Join the IAJ (the Institute of Actuaries of Japan) as they deep dive the Japan mortality and morbidity trend impacted by COVID-19. During COVID-19, Japan experienced increasing COVID-19 patients and deteriorated morbidity trend mainly due to deemed hospitalization. This was introduced to regard the treatment under the doctors' supervision outside of the hospital as hospitalization, given shortage of hospital beds, and add accident death benefit payment triggered by COVID-19. Expect coverage on the mortality/morbidity analysis comparison in Japan, US and globally, as well as comprehensively discuss how Japanese insurers identified solutions to respond to the changing market. Also, you'll discuss consumers' needs and how more uncertainty drives them to prepare individual lifetime retirement income.

Description: This session aims to put everything together and explore progress on company’s ERM process to incorporate climate risks and enterprises’ attempt to provide sustainability information to audiences in need. We will discuss the latest development in international standard on sustainability disclosure. We will diagnose the challenges on implementation and effort to resolve them. We will compare the requirements and latest development across different jurisdictions and possible cross learning among them. To conclude, we will land on what opportunities present to the actuarial community! At the end of this session, participants will be able to: • Discover requirements on sustainability reporting standards across different jurisdictions • Appreciate the challenges and progress to integrate climate risks in company’s ERM approaches • Comprehend actuaries’ opportunities and responsibilities to contribute