Description: Wildfire smoke is reshaping health risks nationwide. A new Society of Actuaries Research Institute study links fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to rising rates of respiratory, cardiovascular, mental health, and cancer conditions—effects that can last long after the fires fade. Join this one-hour webcast to explore how wildfire-related pollution and extreme heat are influencing morbidity, insurance costs, and predictive modeling—and what actuaries, insurers, and policymakers can do to respond.

Description: Session 1F: The Math Behind The Machine - A Review of First Principles

Description: The Reliability of Mortality Improvement Estimates

Description: Introduction to Pension Risk Transfer

Description: Guiding Actuarial Standards

Description: Intro to Takaful

Description: Retakaful

Description: This webcast will explore hedge strategies that can take advantage of synergies with existing business, improve liquidity and collateral management, incorporate opportunistic design-making, and reflect a company’s appetite for certain risks where excess returns can be earned.

Description: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) begins its second decade in a presidential election year. With a decade of experience, opinions on the law's policy efficacy are now rooted in data rather than forecasts. Hear two highly regarded policy experts discuss and debate various policy considerations related to the ACA and other current policy concerns in an actuary-moderated debate-style discussion.

Description: Four healthcare actuaries will share their personal stories of transitioning from pure actuarial roles to business leaders and how they’re putting their actuarial skills to work. All are experts within self-insured stop loss and medical reinsurance so they’ll discuss how their actuarial backgrounds supports the work they do today within this dynamic niche of healthcare.