Description: Please join us for the first webcast in the Long-Term Care (LTC) Section's 2025 series, providing a high-level overview of the LTC insurance market. This webcast will explore the current market size, highlight key players, and review the latest product innovations. We'll also touch on emerging trends in administrative technology, legal and regulatory developments, evolving consumer needs, and product design. Designed to set the stage for deeper dives into these topics in future SOA webcasts, newsletters, and podcasts, this webcast is for anyone seeking to stay informed on the latest developments shaping the LTC industry.

Description: Inspired by the 2023 Living to 100 Symposium, take an incisive look with us at the potential for increased healthy lifespans and the implications for retirement. Issues covered include housing, working longer, running out of money and other risks. Explore results from recent SOA-sponsored research, including a guide to making related decisions late in life. Take advantage of this great opportunity to learn more about the SOA Research Institutes' Aging and Retirement and Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Programs and to help shape future efforts. You will learn about the latest SOA research on living longer, some of the latest developments in aging research and the decisions individuals may face as they prepare for retirement.

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: Who wants to be a Millionaire - Annuity + LTC edition! Through a series of increasingly challenging questions to our contestants, we will explore the depths of annuity + LTC products! Unlike annuity + LTC customers, in this gameshow there will be a winner and there will be a loser. Through the game show format, this session will explore emerging market trends and their drivers in annuity + LTC products, including long-run structural demographic and economic forces. The panelists will also review product design and assumption development considerations, contrasting annuity + LTC products with life + LTC products. We will challenge contestants on the compliance and regulatory issues in product development. Finally, we will provide a future outlook and areas for growth in this niche market. Attendees will understand the emerging product designs, risk profiles, and market potential for annuity + LTC products, and one attendee will win a million dollars*. (*monopoly money)

Description: Retirement planning generally includes a focus on decisions needed at time of retirement, but it often fails to focus on changes during retirement and additional decisions needed as people age. The 2021 SOA Risk Survey and other SOA research documents the lack of focus on future change. It is common for people to lose cognitive ability and generally to become less able to make decisions, manage their finances, their medical care and their lives at high ages.This panel focuses on communication and decision issues. The SOA has recently issued a decision guide on High Age Decisions. The brief identifies four domains for high age decisions: ·Health, health care and staying healthy ·Managing finances ·Housing and transportation ·Support networks The panel will include a discussion of communications and how we change, problems of physical, hearing, sight or cognitive decline and the challenges created and the four domains in the SOA Decision Brief.

Description: "On the decomposition of mortality models into causes of death – Andrés M Villegas Ph.D – UNSW Australia, Madhavi Bajekal, Ph.D.,HONFIA, University of London, UK, Steven Haberman, Ph.D. – Bayes Business School, University of London, UK Forecasting cause-specific mortality rates using the insights from the cointegration analysis, Séverine Arnold, PhD, Viktoriya Glushko, Department of Actuarial Science, Faculty of Business and Economics (HEC Lausanne), University of Lausanne, Switzerland"

Description: Expect to cover key points from the Living to 100 conference around living and social environments for the elderly. Following the review will be a discussion about implications related to LTCI plans and policies around living environments. It will conclude with a peak behind the curtain for pricing for CCRCs.

Description: Some research implies that micro SDOH-related risk factors can influence a significant proportion of an individual's overall health outcome. Contained in SDOH are items such as mental health, ongoing social connection and interactions, transportation, financial confidence, and other items.

Description: General Session III – The Ageing Process: From New Technology to New Medicine

Description: Explore the role of inflation across health products, including medical plans, disability, and long-term care. Explore various drivers of cost trends, wage increase, and cost of care. Understand their role in the pricing and valuation of a product and how to manage the risk.