Description: The pandemic and other current events have greatly impacted the risks that individuals face during retirement. Join us to explore this topic as the results of the Society Actuaries 2021 Retirement Risk Survey are presented. Discover the findings regarding retirement concerns, preparedness and understanding individuals in the U.S. nearing retirement or those who are already retired. This marks the 11th iteration of this biennial survey completed through the SOA Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program.

Description: Learn how modernization of data, models, and technology are influencing workflows. This webcast will address how workflows are changing in response to new regulatory requirements and the impacts the changes have on modeling and end-to-end future state operating models. Industry leading actuaries will discuss: How team collaboration can increase quality and speed of reporting to internal and external stakeholders How to strengthen controls and compliance frameworks across finance and actuarial departments How to modernize actuarial input/output for strategic analysis and insights How to attract and retain top talent by improving opportunities for actuaries There will also be dedicated time to ask questions of those who have made the transition.

Description: This webcast will provide a foundational overview of LTC, including its role in the current health care system, the growing costs and demand, and recent legislative activity in the U.S. Gain firsthand insights from the director of the WA Cares Fund—the nation’s only state-based social insurance program for long-term care—covering its design, funding, and implementation. We’ll also broaden the perspective with an overview of international approaches, featuring the Dutch long-term care financing model as a case study. This webcast is ideal for anyone seeking to understand the evolving public policy and financing solutions for long-term care needs in the U.S. and abroad.

Description: Come check out opportunities and challenges associated with using predictive analytics for LTC. You'll learn how carriers are using predictive analytics to support a range of business functions, including: - Pricing - accelerate underwriting without jeopardizing the risk profile for your new products - Experience studies - enhance your understanding of block performance and capture more granular experience trends in your assumptions with less subjectivity - In-force management - facilitate insight-driven interactions that improve policyholder satisfaction and optimize operational costs Expect panelists to discuss the infrastructure required to deploy predictive analytics and the ways in which predictive analytics can help drive key outcomes, including, improved market competitiveness, enhanced understanding, improved efficiency, and better policyholder outcomes. They will also talk about key hurdles to adoption, and considerations for overcoming these hurdles.

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: 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: This webcast offers “must know” information and differing perspectives on key IRS procedures that can be utilized by insurance companies to address complex tax issues and situations.

Description: At this engaging professionalism webcast, be prepared to reflect on the values of the actuarial profession and in particular the actuarial standards of practice related to long-term care.

Description: This session will focus on how companies can use innovative approaches to managing their Long Term Care (LTC) blocks. It will focus on utilizing external data and machine learning to identify which strategies are likely to be more successful on particular blocks of business. The attendees will learn how they can better use data to improve future financial outcomes in their blocks.

Description: Attendees will see how care coordination and navigation may improve outcomes when integrating across acute and long-term care needs within Medicare and Long-Term Care Insurance products.