Description: Assumptions have been a critical component of actuarial work since the rise of the profession hundreds of years ago. Without well-developed, credible assumptions, reliable financial projections are an impossibility. Yet in 2023, there is still a wide range of assumption processes and governance practices in place throughout the life industry. Follow assumption and governance experts from Oliver Wyman to dig deep into results from our 2023 assumption process and governance survey. Examine what we're seeing currently practiced throughout the industry and offer insights into what we're doing well, as well as where we have opportunities to improve. Explore topics, such as assumption governance frameworks, governance costs, development and review, approval processes, implementation and usage, monitoring, and challenges.Gain a better understanding of how your own assumption processes compare against others in the industry, and learn best practices that can be implemented to improve assumption processes.

Description: There have been several major disruptions that will likely end up dragging the world into a major regime change. The best way to prepare for the next New Normal is with Scenario Planning. Come join a mock scenario planning exercise working in groups. You will be provided a New Normal Scenario and each group will work to develop a new plan for the transition of a business to successfully navigating that Scenario. Groups will share their scenarios and their plans. Session Coordinators will provide the scenario as well as an outline for a plan to respond to the scenario. Workshop participants will work out details for their scenario and plan in small groups. This session is a follow up to two webcasts sponsored by the JRMS in May and June 2023.

Description: This study presents a comprehensive approach of real option analysis to climate adaptation policies aiming to mitigate flood risk. The framework focuses on pricing catastrophic risk in coastal regions, allowing for economic growth and uncertainty in the mean sea level rise.

Description: The Indian market holds tremendous potential for insurance products, especially in segments that remain untapped. The market is evolving in terms of market penetration, product innovation, regulatory changes, government initiatives, capital adequacy and customer experience. In this report, we have highlighted insurance trends in India based on insights gathered from practitioners' interviews, available research and literature, with a particular focus on the enterprise risk management (ERM) function of insurance companies.

Description: The United States Geological Surv ey USGS released the latest version of its National Seismic Hazard Maps NSHM in April 2008. The maps, which were last updated in 2002, define the latest scientific view of earthquake hazard at varying probability levels across the United States.

Description: Can Bad Culture Kill a Firm? Weak cultures leave firms exposed to risks that formerly had been assessed and mitigated.

Description: In this Editor's Note, the outgoing editor recaps the changes to the newsletter and talks about the future issues.

Description: In this article, the author reviews the award winning papers of the 2009 ERM Symposium Scientific Paper Track. Abstracts of the three winning papers are included covering topics such as ALM issues for Long Term Liabilities, Portfolio Risk, and Market participants' personal view of risks.

Description: In this article, the authors discuss measuring and understanding the more holistic value of risk management. In particular, organizations are struggling with how to best determine the market value of risk management strategies.

Description: The author describes the 29th. edition of the International Summer School, held in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by the Swiss Association of Actuaries.