Description: Short Form Professional Development Videos - Actuary in the Loop Closing  Recording

Description: This report provides a comprehensive overview of the HIV-positive population enrolled in Medicare, with an emphasis on demographic trends, healthcare utilization, and cost patterns. It aims to better understand how this population is aging into Medicare and how their needs may differ from the broader Medicare population. The study compares HIV-positive and non-HIV-positive members across medical and pharmacy services to identify potential gaps in care and inform program design. It also highlights key considerations for policymakers, actuaries, and healthcare providers managing this unique population. By presenting data-driven insights, the report serves as a foundation for future research and policy development to ensure equitable, effective care for HIV-positive Medicare beneficiaries.

Description: The overarching objective of this research project is to explore the connections between mental health and mortality, as well as the influential factors present during the various phases of this continuum. The project analyzes SAMHSA mental health treatment data and BRFSS survey response data, as evidence for change in the approach to mental health services and insurer underwriting. For life insurers, more complete data on SDOH, lifestyle habits/behaviors, and mental health diagnoses may help with the identification of the appropriate insurance product. Having details on diagnosis and clear treatment history may make the difference between denial of coverage and offering a different insurance policy/plan (term or reduced term policy instead of whole life).

Description: Short Form Professional Development Videos - Stat vs. economic frameworks  Recording

Description: To evaluate the impact of SDOH risk adjustment on financial outcomes for Medicaid ACOs and managed care organizations (MCOs, which the authors refer to interchangeably with ACOs in this report), the authors calibrated risk-adjustment models with the addition of SDOH risk factors and then they simulated financial outcomes for ACOs/MCOs across synthetic state Medicaid managed care markets with and without SDOH risk adjustment.

Description: Nobody is perfect, and actuaries are no exception. At some point, every actuary is bound to make a big mistake. These kinds of mistakes can have a significant impact on an actuary's reputation — whether that impact is positive or negative depends in large part on the way someone investigates, communicates, and resolves errors they uncover. By approaching mistakes with transparency and honesty, these big mistakes can actually enhance credibility and reputation, rather than harm it.

Description: This article summarizes findings from a recently published peer-reviewed study in the Journal of Risk and Insurance (Hanewald et al., 2025),[1], which examined how access to housing wealth affects stated demand for LTC insurance in China. We conducted a survey of homeowners aged 45-–64 across 49 cities in China and found that offering reverse mortgages or home reversion products significantly increased stated demand for LTC insurance. This article highlights the study’s key results and implications for insurers, actuaries, and policymakers.

Description: Short Form Professional Development Videos - Mortality Study  Recording

Description: Impact of Family Structure on Aspects of Retirement

Description: Recent LA wildfires exemplified the devastating impacts of compounding weather extreme events. This webcast explores the inherent risk posed by various types of compounding events, proposes statistical techniques to quantify the impacts of compounding events and how this will evolve under a warmer climate. As compound events continue to evolve, it will become increasingly important to monitor and consider risk models and analyses to provide more comprehensive and accurate risk assessments and, ultimately, support more effective disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts. One way to improve preparedness is the underwriting of these risks through geospatial imagery and high-resolution image technology, which have spurred advances across many industries. The webcast will further discuss the importance of building footprint data for risk assessment and examine how building data and vegetation cover data can be used in calculating underwriting wildfire risk metrics.