Description: Explore insights to non-traditional actuarial roles from a panelist with experiences in data science, finance and entertainment. The panelist will be sharing their perspectives on their non-traditional actuarial role in relation to the actuarial profession.

Description: With the growing threat of cyber incidents, organizations and governments are rightfully concerned. In recent years, cyber incidents have caused significant losses to entities and insurers across the world. Therefore, there is a need to understand and provide greater context around the topic of catastrophic cyber risk, which has implications for insurance companies, reinsurers, regulators, consumers, and society. Taking a multi-disciplinary, holistic approach, an expert panel study was conducted on catastrophic cyber risk in this four-part series of discussions and subsequent reports.

Description: This report is a technical paper on a Predictive Analytics Framework and Reusable Workflow for Experience Analysis in actuarial studies. It covers data analysis, machine learning models, methodologies, and model interpretation techniques.

Description: Get highlights from recently published and upcoming research from the SOA Research Institute, including work on specialty pharmacy and the long-term impacts of COVID-19. Presenters will focus on the financial impacts of these issues as well as trends and other actuarial considerations.

Description: Session 3E: The ACA@15 - SOA Updated Research into the Evolution of the ACA

Description: In this talk, we look at two behavioral aspects: from end customers perspective and through the lens of underwriters. We will examine simple rules to improve the insurance underwriting decision to judge whether a risk is insurable and whether they have impact on increasing underwriting decision quality.

Description: In this session, the presenters will discuss (1) results from a recent study of credibility applications in the pricing of group long term disability business, (2) morbidity experience from individual disability business, and (3) lessons can be learned from each line of business.

Description: In this session, attendees will learn to model historical mortality rates and to forecast their possible future scenarios, using a freely available and well-tested toolkit written in open source R. The core of the toolkit is implemented in the R package StMoMo (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=StMoMo) and enables a practitioner to derive best estimate and measurements of uncertainty using academically robust demographic and actuarial mortality projection models.

Description: This session meets the needs of life insurance actuaries who are focused on experience studies, assumption setting, and/or product development. The presenters will use industry data to illustrate how policyholders react to product design, such as premium jumps in the PLT period and UL with high interest rate illustration, and trends in the life insurance market, including the introduction of smoking distinguished rates and the shift towards an increasing number of preferred underwriting classes.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and two of its special interest sections, the Pension Section and the Health Section, set about creating a pension plan turnover table for use by actuaries to assist in calculating benefit costs for pension and retiree medical plans. This is the final report about that project.