Description: Read the Quo Vadis Reinsurance.

Description: Mandatory implementation of life principle-based reserves (PBR) is just around the corner and there is no shortage of work to do, as most products have yet to be moved to PBR. Oliver Wyman recently completed its 2019 PBR survey, with more than 40 participants covering 85 percent of the individual life market, including 23 of the top 25 life writers and five reinsurers. This article will expand on the key survey findings, including implementation trends, analysis to date, model robustness and common simplifications.

Description: This paper will use a sample example to examine the relationship between the pricing objective of ROI and the corporate profit measure of ROE. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute, in collaboration with Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, a leading global life and health reinsurer, announced findings from new research on behavioral science for the life insurance sector. This research simulated online term life insurance purchasing to test behavioral science techniques.

Description: This video by Ryan Kiefer ASA, MAAA provides an overview of the basics of LDTI, the most significant change to GAAP insurance accounting in decades. It covers the key changes to liability for future policyholder benefits, market risk benefits, deferred acquisition costs, and financial statement disclosures. It also highlights some of the challenges and opportunities that LDTI brings to the industry. Contributors: Ryan Kiefer ASA, MAAA ; Anthony Champi , FSA, MAAA; Ryan Bruner FSA, MAAA; Jon Forster, ASA, MAAA

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet with some data pertaining to an article of the same name from the Product Development News

Description: Part 2 of a discussion of the Chinese life insurance market with an emphasis on regulatory, investment, tax, and professional development issues.

Description: Describes a process for identifying relevant industry experience to credibility-weight with relevant company experience to set modeling assumptions and margins.

Description: Discusses the reasons for, and the economic impacts of, the backdating of life insurance policies, and what changes in the industry might evolve to address them.

Description: The last few years have seen a dramatic change in the way that insurance products are priced. If we traveled back in time 15 to 20 years, we would see a world where most insurance products were priced on the basis of a few static scenarios. In the last several years, pricing on a stochastic basis has become more mainstream—at least for contracts with embedded guarantees.