Description: This session explores the role of insurance-linked sidecars (Sidecars) and Incorporated Segregated Accounts Companies (ISACs) in Bermuda's insurance and reinsurance landscape. We will examine their structures, regulatory considerations, and how they can be leveraged for capital efficiency, risk transfer, and strategic growth. Attendees will gain insights into the advantages and challenges of using Sidecars and ISACs in the Bermuda market.

Description: Insurers have long relied on scenario analysis to understand the long-term impacts of potential business decisions, but the advent of rapidly changing market environments and a growing desire to optimize capital has spurred business leaders to leverage new tools in order to explore potential options.

Description: "This session will delve into strategic forecasting and unified modeling, an innovative approach that utilizes an orchestration engine to streamline model execution and the forecasting process across various platforms. By leveraging publicly available technology stacks, we will demonstrate how a unified modeling platform can enhance workflows and tackle complex business challenges, providing valuable insights for both actuaries and executives. Additionally, we will explore the potential of a top-down framework to facilitate the rapid analysis of key 'what-if' scenarios, minimizing the need for extensive bottom-up modeling processes. A comprehensive data diagram will illustrate the expansion opportunities, showcasing how this unified modeling framework can scale across an entire organization, supporting strategic initiatives such as mergers and acquisitions, reinsurance transactions, and other capital management strategies. Learning Objectives: Discover a holistic approach to strategic forecasting that aligns with organizational goals Understand the potential of unified modeling to significantly enhance actuarial processes and decision-making capabilities Explore how programming language support unified modeling initiatives across various business functions Identify the benefits and challenges associated with implementing unified modeling within your organization"

Description: Come discuss how reinsurers can work side by side with insurer to better develop products, and lift in the areas that reinsurers have more experience, help matching products with distributions (or vice versa) and provide advanced technologies associated with tools and software. The speakers will also present Direct to Consumer plan from various points of view, i.e., distributors, carriers, and reinsurers. Some case studies will also be presented where traditional reinsurers and asset-intensive reinsurers helped insurers bring products to life.

Description: Forward looking insurers are reimagining their businesses with key strategic aims around how they engage with their customers and how they make and implement decisions. Industry experts will present a maturity framework for assessing your progress with specific case studies for how to advance in the areas of Management Information, New Business, and Inforce Management.

Description: Actuarial funding of OPEB plans is primarily a public sector phenomenon due to the different regulations and tax laws that impact private sector organizations in the US. OPEB funding started to gain momentum with the implementation of GASB Statement 45 in the mid to late 2000s.

Description: The surge in interest rates over the past few years presents opportunities for life insurers to enhance their Asset and Liability Management (ALM) positions through asset rebalancing to narrow the duration gap and secure higher risk-adjusted yields. This webcast introduces a robust, efficient and readily-executable, liability-driven strategic asset allocation (SAA) framework and implementation considerations. At the conclusion of the webcast, attendees will learn about the key objectives and practical considerations for a successful SAA.

Description: A lot is happening in the annuity industry. The presenters will provide an overview of key developments in annuities and their implications to product actuaries. They will discuss recent product and market trends in fixed, indexed and variable annuities. They will also explore emerging regulatory requirements affecting annuities, such as VM-22 and Best Interest rules, as well as how they may impact product development. - Learn about recent product and market trends in annuities - Be informed of key emerging regulatory developments affecting annuities - Understand how these developments may affect product development

Description: Develop a better understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) across the financial services and risk management industry, with a focus on actuaries. Panelists will address topics such as industry-wide diversity efforts, as well as current challenges facing diverse groups. Come listen to these panelists share perspectives on attracting, fostering, retaining and increasing diverse actuarial talent, in addition to the SOA’s DEI goals in the coming years.

Description: This webcast will update listeners on the financial status of the U.S. Social Security program, describe half a dozen widespread myths, and discuss the reality of "waste, fraud and abuse" in the program.