Description: Chronicles the journey made by Allstate to enhance its process for managing risk and ultimately find ways to better exploit risk opportunities.

Description: Broaden your understanding of how long-term care (LTC) is provided and brainstorm with other actuaries on ways to help society fund future LTC solutions. How we fund and provide LTC for our loved ones has changed over time and will evolve still by the time we retire. In this session we will explore the variety of ways that we fund LTC services: out of pocket and with informal care, Medicaid, lifeplan communities (Continuing Care Retirement Communities and and the Continuing Care at Home model), private LTC insurance and more. You will leave the session appreciating that providing long-term care is a key feature of our aging society and understand the variety of ways that we fund LTC today and may in the future.

Description: Many companies are facing challenges with their inforce UL business. These “distressed” or non-core blocks of business can be a drag on earnings, return on capital, and/or internal resources. With the pressures of today's marketplace, companies are seeking efficient strategies for managing these blocks. The good news is that strategies exist such that inforce UL business can be optimized with some attention. Learn about some options and levers companies have available to help manage these blocks.

Description: For insurers to preserve and create value, they must understand their exposure to carbon and climate risks and develop decarbonization strategies. Transition plans facilitate this by encouraging organizational thinking and disclosure to the market. 2023 is a crucial year for progress on these initiatives amid evolving regulatory expectations. This session will provide an overview of the transition planning process, value creation and drivers identification, and how to incorporate these into transition and resiliency strategies. As part of climate risk mitigation strategies during transition and beyond, we will present a data and technology framework for insurers to more effectively manage climate risk. In particular, we will discuss dynamic climate risk management (DCRM) solutions which use data and technology to inform adaptation and resilience. Emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, and blockchain can also help insurers manage risks related to climate change more effectively. By attending the session, attendees will learn how to develop transition plans, adopt DCRM solutions and leverage emerging technologies to build resilience against the challenges caused by climate change.

Description: Join the IAJ (the Institute of Actuaries of Japan) as they deep dive the Japan mortality and morbidity trend impacted by COVID-19. During COVID-19, Japan experienced increasing COVID-19 patients and deteriorated morbidity trend mainly due to deemed hospitalization. This was introduced to regard the treatment under the doctors' supervision outside of the hospital as hospitalization, given shortage of hospital beds, and add accident death benefit payment triggered by COVID-19. Expect coverage on the mortality/morbidity analysis comparison in Japan, US and globally, as well as comprehensively discuss how Japanese insurers identified solutions to respond to the changing market. Also, you'll discuss consumers' needs and how more uncertainty drives them to prepare individual lifetime retirement income.

Description: Internal modernization initiatives and external changes of the financial reporting regulations (e.g., LDTI, IFRS 17) increase the amount of validation activities for actuarial models. In addition, the use of predictive analytics in actuarial modeling requires a different set of validation skillsets/techniques in model validation. These internal and external forces call for a structured, streamlined and robust model validation practice.

Description: In this session, the panelists discuss several common cognitive biases that can adversely impact the capital allocation decision process, introducing the notions of time, accounting convention, positivity, hierarchy, and social proof in describing them. Historical case examples of sub-optimal capital allocation are then explored, identifying the contributing behavioral factors including the simultaneous confluence of multiple factors. The panelists will close the session with several suggestions for attendees to consider for incorporation into their decision-making processes. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Learn common cognitive biases that impact capital allocation decisions - Differentiate which biases impact different aspects of the capital allocation process - Build awareness of biases affecting capital allocation decision models - Mitigate cognitive biases present in decision making processes

Description: An attorney and a statistician will discuss the latest on GenAI, the AI regulation and litigation affecting the use of AI in insurance.

Description: This survey tracks the relative rankings of risk managers about emerging risks across time. It is the 17th survey of emerging risks sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), administered by the Joint Risk Management Section.