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Description: The SOA Candidate Connect event is tailored for actuarial candidates, providing information, inspiration and networking opportunities while in pursuit of the ASA designation. The SOA is pleased to offer a candidate program at the 2023 Life Meeting.

Description: This SOA e-course focuses specifically on your obligations to ensure that Actuarial Services performed by or under the direction of the Actuary satisfy applicable standards of practice.

Description: This SOA e-course provides actuaries with tips, guidelines and activities to help communicate effectively with professionals across all disciplines.

Description: This SOA CPD course teaches practical techniques that actuaries can use to manage the financial control cycle in a health care company.

Description: This e-course describes social insurance programs, their operation and the current issues they are facing.

Description: 2023 Candidate Connect Ottawa

Description: Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) provides practitioners all of the tools necessary for assessing, quantifying, and managing risk on an aggregated, holistic basis. However, in practice it is often found that there is a tendency for company managements and even seasoned risk practitioners at times to navigate their risk exposures one at a time. This habitual approach produces sub-optimal results due to the oversimplification of risk events and understating the complexity of the world in which decision makers must navigate. At the heart of this sub-optimal behavior is the human predilection towards mental accounting. As with financial accounting, mental accounting employs a ledger function that mentally registers debts and balances. However, unlike a traditional ledger, the mental ledger is not precise, does not always sum debits to equal credits, and creates arbitrary categories for resources that are treated as independent, unrelated pools. These differences in function profoundly impact financial judgments and decision-making. Learn more about the long history of mental accounting, including examples from daily life to illustrate the principles involved. Discuss how mental accounting can arise during the ERM process cycle, with a special emphasis on its impacts on effectively quantifying risk and how this results in sub-optimal decision making. Discover behavioral tools specifically designed to mitigate the risk of mental accounting creeping into a company's ERM activities.

Description: Learn to utilize one of the most requested skills in the actuarial science job advertisements. During this webcast, discover the benefits of programming, how to identify and explain complex technical information and ways to create stunning visuals with ggplot2, which exceed the capabilities of Excel. With your webcast attendance, you will receive a document with detailed explanations, codes and underlying data. Enjoy exercises which allow the creation of fully reproducible solutions. This means an easy reproduction of all presented plots learned during this webcast. Register and take the next step toward building enticing visualizations.

Description: Actuaries from all functions have been required to evolve their skill sets over the past two -and -a half years, by strengthening their ability to analyse the unknown, keep pace regulatory changes and rapidly changing market conditions, and clearly communicate results to stakeholders as it pertains to an unprecedented pace of strategic decisions, all while adapting to a remote working environment. Listen in as panelists discuss how they have seen the actuarial role change over the course of the pandemic and their expectations on the continued evolution of the role. Discuss successful characteristics and best practices, and participate through polling and facilitated discussion.