Description: "Focuses on innovations in financial reporting processes that connect actuarial results with finance in a clear, efficient way. The session covers tools and techniques for automating data flows from actuarial models to financial statements, reducing manual work at quarter-end. It also highlights the use of visualization and business intelligence (BI) tools to communicate valuation results (e.g., interactive dashboards for reserve roll-forwards or attribution analysis). By sharing success stories of automating FP&A workflows and adopting self-service analytics, presenters will show how actuaries can provide more timely insights to management. Attendees will take away ideas for improving reporting accuracy, audit trail, and the strategic value of actuarial information in decision-making."

Description: This 60-minute panel discussion led by Academy volunteers will explore the treatment of reinsurance under the Valuation Manual's principles-based reserving (PBR) requirements for life insurance (VM-20). Panelists will discuss different reinsurance agreements, such as coinsurance, modified coinsurance, guaranteed and non-guaranteed yearly renewable term (YRT), stop-loss reinsurance, and financial reinsurance. The session aims to address practical reinsurance considerations for PBR in 2025, focusing on emerging issues such as reinsurance reserve credit and approaches for YRT reinsurance, and considering relevant ASOPs and updates to Practice Notes. Participants will gain insight into how different reinsurance structures affect VM-20 reserving.

Description: This session will explore recent and historical advancements in computing relevant to actuarial analysis. We will provide a comprehensive overview of the current landscape, tracing the journey of how we arrived here and how actuaries are already harnessing these innovations. This session will primarily be focused on hardware and as software programming interfaces the latter, in effect, helps accelerate code and ease of access to specialized hardware. We will also examine optimization opportunities involving the intersection of the two.

Description: As sales registered index-linked annuity (RILA) sales continue to exhibit strong growth, insurers may be faced with challenges and opportunities to best manage the hedging requirements of the product. In this session we will explore the potential benefits of dynamically vs. static hedging and how insurers could recognize synergies in hedging RILA alongside traditional variable annuities. We will also dive into how hedging overlaps with strategy and modeling as companies need to simulate future index crediting strategies and monitor the risks of emerging guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefit (GLWB) riders. Coming out of this session, attendees will gain key insights on hedging strategies and considerations for RILA products, with considerations around interaction with existing VA business, as well as the potential challenges of RILA hedging in an evolving market.

Description: The video, by Kara Clark, explains how technology is a major long-term driver of future mortality, drawing on Chapter 8 of the SOA Research Institute’s Long-Term Drivers of Future Mortality report.

Description: The video features Dale Hall, Managing Director at the Society of Actuaries Research Institute, where he presents findings from an SOA Research Institute study on the readiness of Asia-Pacific markets for commercial long-term care insurance (LTCI) amid rapid population aging.

Description: This video introduces an SOA Research Institute report on pension risk transfer, explaining how defined benefit plan sponsors increasingly use de-risking strategies to manage financial, longevity, and regulatory pressures. Steven Siegel, ASA, MAAA presents this innovative video.

Description: Adoption of AI in Actuarial Practice: From Enterprise Strategy to a Deep Dive of Modeling Software Innovation Webcast

Description: Join us for a fast-paced webcast unpacking results from the 2026 Emerging Risks Survey. Get key insights from 350+ insurance and financial services leaders, including C-suite respondents, on what they see ahead for 2026 and beyond – spanning economic volatility, geopolitics, adverse AI outcomes, and cyber risk. We’ll spotlight key sector differences and the long-term combinations of risks shaping strategic planning.

Description: Fairness in life insurance isn’t a checkbox—it’s a set of choices, trade-offs, and consequences. In this webcast, the report’s author will walk through a practical framework for defining and measuring fairness in life insurance workflows, showing why “fair” can mean very different things depending on whether you’re focusing on individuals or groups—and why you often can’t optimize both at once. You’ll get a clear tour of the major fairness criteria used in today’s literature—what they measure, where they fit in insurance, and what can break when you adopt them . Expect straight talk, concrete insurance-oriented examples, and guidance on selecting metrics that align with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and stakeholder priorities—without pretending there’s a one-size-fits-all answer.