Description: The Current Environment for Pension Risk Transfer – A Roundtable Conversation

Description: This report is a comprehensive survey of existing literature on mortality and race and ethnicity in the United States, examining disparities in mortality rates among different racial and ethnic groups. It explores factors influencing mortality differentials, including socioeconomic status, health care access, and other relevant aspects.

Description: A Multifaceted Analysis of Dynamic Pension Plan Designs

Description: The report discusses using behavioral science in redesigning life insurance underwriting questionnaires to improve disclosure rates. It includes an experimental study, industry survey insights, and discussions on application forms, behavioral science application, and organizational engagement with behavioral science in the insurance industry.

Description: Provider Use of AI in Healthcare

Description: This suite of projects analyze four decades of U.S. mortality disparities across socioeconomic groups, providing data-driven insights using life tables and demographic techniques.

Description: U.S. Historical Population Mortality Rates 2000-2023

Description: Come build, and move beyond, the SOA funded research in Minnesota about the creation of a public/private program to provide catastrophic long term care (LTSS) coverage for citizens. Since that time other states have begun to be engaged in this effort. California has approved a research effort to look at models for funding their citizens LTC needs. New York State, through the efforts of their governor, is also looking at reforms that at some point will include financing. Colorado has begun to look at this as well. And Minnesota has funded new efforts to develop more on its own about both the catastrophic idea funded by SOA but also how to expand and change the delivery of LTC through existing home and community-based programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. This raises the question of whether LTC reform in the states will take this direction as interest in raising taxes (whether general revenue or by a payroll deduction) faces headwinds. Come learn about the recent state efforts and have a chance to offer your own assessment.

Description: The recent round of regulatory changes (LDTI, IFRS 17, PBR) has put a demand on actuarial organizations, and in particular, financial reporting functions unlike most have experienced in their careers. With adoption, where does this leave the financial reporting function going forward? What work is left to be done? How will the financial reporting function need to evolve under these accounting regimes? Come explore these topics and more through a moderated debate, inclusive of the following questions: - What are the biggest 'day 2' items that remain on your organization's 'to-do' list? - How are valuation actuaries equipped to navigate the newly available data, understand the results, and tell the underlying earnings story? - How do new regulatory requirements fit into current close calendar requirements? - What are the peripheral impacts from regulatory change (e.g., FP&A, product development) and how are your valuation actuaries involved in these processes?

Description: The market and regulatory environment may be different from place to place, but the business problems insurance professionals encounter are similar no matter where they are. Our panelists hail from diverse markets in Europe and Asia. They will share details of their distinct approaches to common issues such as regulatory and rating agency capital requirements, lapse and longevity risk. Enjoy looking at how solutions from other markets can be applied at home, whether 'home' is the U.S., Asia or elsewhere. Key learning objectives include: - Understanding the ways unique approaches--such as stop loss reinsurance-can be applied to freeing up capital - Developing a fundamental understanding of asset-intensive structures, which are common in the U.S., and how they can be used in Asia and other markets - Exploring the market forces that make longevity reinsurance so popular in the U.K. but not in the U.S.