Description: Sales of index-linked annuities such as FIAs and RILAs have been setting new records while sales of traditional VAs have been declining. This webcast will survey the latest generation of FIA and RILA products, examining the impact of the current market environment and how the landscape is expected to change when the FED starts cutting interest rates.

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: Indexed universal life (IUL) continues to be the most popular universal life (UL) product with sales reaching $1B in Q4 2023, according to LIMRA. There is little long term experience for IUL and many companies value and model IUL just like UL, but there are material potential differences that need to be considered for valuation and projection purposes. Presenters will discuss key risks and differences between IUL and UL relating to policyholder behavior and how to value, project, monitor and manage those risks to avoid repeating misestimates of the past. Presenters will also discuss broader life assumption risks such as mortality and yearly renewable term (YRT) reinsurance risk. Attendees will learn about options on how to potentially address underperforming blocks of IUL and will obtain an improved perspective on the risks of IUL products and the differences versus UL and how to incorporate these differences into their valuation and projection exercises.

Description: The rising interest rate environment has presented more attractive alternatives for VA risk management, but the benefits of different strategies can vary significantly by block of business. This session will highlight key drivers for risk management decisions for variable, fixed index, and registered index-linked annuities. With the viewpoints from different direct writers, reinsurers and preliminary findings of the 2024 Milliman Derivatives Study, the session will then show how product mix, tenure, and regulatory regime influence strategic decision-making. At the end of the session, the audience will help make strategic decisions on sample blocks of business and see how their choices play out in different hypothetical scenarios.

Description: Guarenteed Minimum Benefits of type x (GMxB) riders under ASU 2018-12, the Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI) guidance, are now classified as Market Risk Benefits (MRBs). There are several acceptable approaches for calculating the MRB balance on a block of GMxBs. Depending on the product provisions, certain approaches may be more desirable than others. IThis session will give you the opportunity to examine different strategies for calculating the MRB liability for GMxB riders under LDTI.By the end of the session, you will understand the pros and cons of the several approaches permitted for calculating the MRB balance on a block of GMxBs.

Description: Go over how the actuarial processes have changed over the past 10+ years with the move to PBR, US GAAP LDTI, IFRS 17 and other emerging requirements.

Description: Large SEC US GAAP filers implemented LDTI 1/1/2023. Other insurance companies have until 1/1/2025. Learn more about those companies with a 2025 implementation date. What do these companies need to know? What can be learned from the 2023 implementers? What are the biggest hurtles to implementation?

Description: Dive into Risk-Based Capital concepts and learn about regulatory updates that have recently been implemented, as well as future updates under development. Come examine reinsurance solutions and considerations which manage risk and RBC, including traditional reinsurance, financial reinsurance, and captive solutions.

Description: Much has been published about the increased financial statement volatility under U.S. GAAP Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI). Discover more about tools and techniques that actuaries and other financial reporting professionals can use to reduce volatility risk and understand the relationships between certain risks and volatility. By attending the session, you will learn to identify sources of financial statement volatility under LDTI and methods to manage or reduce the volatility.

Description: The topics of ESG (Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance) and sustainability are an increasing area of focus for insurance companies, and thus actuaries. This webcast provides a primer on these topics along with considerations for US valuation actuaries and their evolution in European insurance markets.