Description: "Asset-intensive reinsurance has become a focal point of actuarial, administrative and regulatory consideration in recent years. This session will walk through a real-world reinsurance case study of an illustrative transaction - from the initial actuarial due diligence process of the cedant's subject business through onboarding and integrating that business into the reinsurer's platform. Topics will include actuarial due diligence, experience studies and assumption setting, model validation, model development and onboarding of the subject business. The session aims to provide a variety of insights into this process across different business units and functions. By the end of the session, attendees will have a firm understanding of key transaction-related topics within the context of a real-world example."

Description: "This session is for liability-side actuaries seeking a summary of asset valuation principles. Topics to be discussed include: Why it's important in today's world to understand both sides of the balance sheet. Yield curves, including spot rates, forward rates, coupon rates and bootstrapping. Duration calculations, including an explanation of modified duration for contracts with embedded options and key rate durations. A summary of today's regulatory environment in the context of embedded options, including MRB, VM-21 and VM-22. Next, we will dive into duration profiles of different asset classes, including CLOs (floating rate), RMBS (negative convexity), traditional bonds and swaps. Lastly, we will discuss risk-neutral scenarios, martingale tests, and applications in hedging MRBs."

Description: In this presentation, we will delve into the realm of structured finance, placing a spotlight on advanced structured finance modeling. This session will first explore the growth of structured assets in the insurance space, and the reasons behind this growth. We will then conduct a deep dive into different credit models underlying the cashflow projections of different types of structured securities, including an overview of approaches for modeling the prepayment rates, default rates, and loss severity. We will also explore how a refined credit model can help insurance companies evaluate the risk-return tradeoff of investing in different structured assets. This session aims to enhance understanding of structured finance products and how to model them.

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: This session will take a deep dive into emerging mortality experience for long-term care policyholders over age 90. How do we sort fact from fiction when it comes to recent experience that is blurred by the pandemic? This session will look at actual experience of healthy and disabled policies before, during and after the pandemic to help actuaries set assumptions.

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.

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

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.