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Description: Candidate Connect – 2026 Valuation Actuary Symposium

Description: Investigate the importance of collaboration with accounting, underwriting, sales, marketing and other professions as an actuary when you attend this webcast. Cross-functional positions can cause unique challenges to arise, like various experts attempting to balance growth and profitability. Discover an opportunity to learn about relevant ASOPs and dive deeper into contemporary examples that highlight specific professionalism issues that can develop.

Description: Come experience an informative and invigorating webcast focused on an overview of the reinsurance market. Discover the opportunities and challenges that this market can create and how to best understand them. You can also expect investment within the reinsurance market to be a particular highlighted topic. Explore an overview of key components of asset strategies and develop a knowledge base on how to fully comprehend and shape the reinsurance business. If you're ready to elevate your understanding of reinsurance, then tune in to this webcast.

Description: Pandemics are a main driver of losses for both life and non-life (re-)insurance. Until COVID-19, risk assessment mostly relied on a few historic examples, most importantly the Spanish flu. The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that other pathogens (namely the coronaviruses) need to be taken into account. Also, modern societies and governments drastically respond to novel threats and implement measures such as social distancing, mask mandates, and lockdowns. Besides the properties of the pathogen itself, these reactions and the medical progression (namely the development of vaccines) are key influences on the course of a pandemic, and thus also the resulting outcomes. To account for the new insights, join us as we take a look at a stochastic, age-structured compartmental model that is calibrated on recent pandemics with several parameters sets to model different levels of reaction speed and stringency between groups of countries. Other important factors also must be defined in close collaboration with experts. Get ready to explore the development of a model and framework that can provide potential outcomes to be used as the basis to derive both summary and tail statistics to assess pandemic risk and help price complex deals.

Description: SARS-CoV2 will impact our post-pandemic future. Morbidity more than mortality will impact the life and health business in the mid-term. But how does this temporary disruption in health care elicit long-tail implications on other common diseases and changes in lifestyles? Find out how mid-term pricing could be affected using one case scenario and also show how mental health will particularly shape the post-pandemic future (individually and societal), not only due to long COVID. Review the experience of the insured policies and discuss future ideas for COVID-19 research at the Society of Actuaries Research Institute. Consider recent causes of death studies, as well as reported claims analyses to help expedite the analysis of recent experience. Join us where experts from both the medical and actuarial disciplines join forces to discuss this important topic.

Description: We've all heard it- 'a model is only as good as its data.' This rings especially true in the era of predictive analytics, which brings new and powerful ways of analyzing our data in the insurance space. But in order to glean insights, we first need to know where to look for the data! Company data is a common place to start, but we will miss out if we don't also turn to the industry data available in many different places. Come hear several vignettes of how data was found and used to solve different actuarial business problems, including pricing using predictive analytics, building underwriting algorithms, and assessing market competition. At the end of the session, attendees will be invited to give a two-minute description of how they found and used industry data to solve their unique business problems.

Description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a key component of the insurance landscape and getting full value from an AI depends on much more than simply building the model. Please join us to hear the challenges and potential solutions around successfully deploying an AI-driven initiative within an organization. Hear from panelists as they describe the human impacts of model implementation, how to assess a model for effectiveness and (lack of) bias, and detail the journey of implementing AI-driven underwriting models at a large insurance company.

Description: The ongoing changes in job structure in the last two years have led to multiple questions: How with this impact retirement benefits and retirement? Will more flexible job arrangements (e.g. phased retirement) open up the potential for better opportunities for older workers? The U.S. population has been aging (in spite of the last two years).How will retirement adapt to longer life spans? Explore the future of retirement and retirement plans in light of these changes.