Description: Fairness in life insurance isn’t a checkbox—it’s a set of choices, trade-offs, and consequences. In this webcast, the report’s author will walk through a practical framework for defining and measuring fairness in life insurance workflows, showing why “fair” can mean very different things depending on whether you’re focusing on individuals or groups—and why you often can’t optimize both at once. You’ll get a clear tour of the major fairness criteria used in today’s literature—what they measure, where they fit in insurance, and what can break when you adopt them . Expect straight talk, concrete insurance-oriented examples, and guidance on selecting metrics that align with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and stakeholder priorities—without pretending there’s a one-size-fits-all answer.

Description: For decades, drug overdose deaths have been increasing within the U.S., with opioid-related mortality driving this increase. The Society of Actuaries Research Institute (SOA) sponsored this research to investigate the trends and drivers behind drug overdose mortality and substance-related deaths as a whole. Findings provided a range of insights surrounding substance use disorder, drug overdose and alcohol-induced mortality, and considerations for insurers.

Description: The Mortality and Longevity and Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Programs are pleased to make available a report summarizing an expert panel brought together to discuss the impact of wildfires on U.S. health and life insurers.

Description: Focusing on the topic of Principle Based Reserves (PBR), the SOA offers on-demand education. The PBR series consists of ten micro-lessons providing foundational education on PBR and requirements of VM-20.

Description: Discuss issues related to illustrations, including illustration testing, ASOP 24, the illustration model regulation and AG 49 at the practice level. Come prepared with questions and comments on the world of illustrations and illustration testing. Explore ideas for what's working and not working in the illustration world and formulate plans to tackle pressing illustrations issues. At the end of this workshop, you will be able to Identify issues related to illustrations and illustration testing for life products, discuss possible ways to resolve issues issue identified, and explore the future state of illustrations and illustration testing for various products.

Description: Come hear about the latest trends and insights as this panel discusses the happenings in life insurance marketplace. The panel plans to cover product, regulatory, underwriting, marketing, and other trends to help keep the audience up to date on many of Life's changing events.

Description: Explore various aspects of the Asian reinsurance market in this webcast. Learn about the landscape within the market as speakers cover key topics like product perspectives, structured solutions and emerging trends and issues. Take an in-depth look at the post COVID-19 impact, as well as regulatory considerations that could affect the Asian reinsurance industry. Secure your spot in this opportunity and dive into the direction of this marketspace.

Description: This session will uncover the mystical findings that can be uncovered when leveraging a reinsurer. Insights discussed during this session include mortality at high face amounts, interactions between lapses and mortality, mortality improvement on low face amounts, fully underwritten mortality by Resident State and more. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to identify where reinsurer data can help uncover insights, how mortality and lapse knowledge can improve product performance and what some mortality results can come from reinsurance research.

Description: This session will discuss SECURE 2.0 and the recent required minimum distribution regulations, section 7702’s floor interest rates and managing contract changes, SECURE 2.0’s rules for withdrawals from retirement plans for long-term care insurance, and issues on the horizon such as the global minimum tax and Billionaire’s tax proposal.

Description: In recent years, there has been a significant increase in life and annuity business transactions transferring blocks of business across jurisdictions. These transactions raise important questions for stakeholders-including policyholders, regulators, rating agencies, investors, and companies themselves-about the drivers of financial results under different regulatory and accounting regimes.As financial reporting frameworks grow more complex-whether US Statutory, IFRS 17, US GAAP, or Solvency II-stakeholders are demanding deeper insights into how results are determined and how they compare across jurisdictions. Understanding these differences is critical for assessing financial performance, capital strength, and risk exposures, particularly in a cross-border context.To address this need, many companies are developing and applying bridging analyses-such as waterfall analyses, step-by-step reconciliations, and other frameworks-to explain how and why results differ between reporting bases. These approaches help clarify key drivers and provide transparency to stakeholders.In this session, representatives from leading companies will share practical approaches they use to bridge these gaps, offering insights into the methodologies and analyses that have proven most effective in navigating cross-jurisdiction financial reporting challenges. Attendees will gain a clearer understanding of cross-jurisdiction reporting differences and take away ideas for applying effective bridging techniques within their own organizations.