Description: Discover investing trends across the life and health industry as insurers seek to navigate rapidly changing rate and market environments. BlackRock will present results from its Peer Risk Study, which models industry holdings based on statutory filings at the CUSIP level. Through the Aladdin risk modeling software, expect a production of deep insights into insurer portfolio risk and return characteristics, as well as exploring how they have evolved. Keep an eye out for a partner to present on the evolution from their perspective. Start learning about what is happening on the asset side of the balance sheet across the industry.

Description: Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith, Physician, Work-Life Integration Researcher & Award-Winning Author She is the founder of Restorasis, a health tech start-up focusing on restoring healthy patient-provider relationships to improve health outcomes. As a wellness initiative consultant, Dr. Dalton-Smith helps organizations overcome burnout to create a work culture of well-being. She is a board-certified internal medicine physician with over 20 years in practice near Birmingham, Alabama. This lunch is available for all meeting attendees as part of the registration fee. If you plan to attend, please register in advance.

Description: Learn to build an element of international exposure into your career. International assignments are incredibly varied, some of which include covering international issues from a home-country post, to short-term assignments abroad, longer postings abroad, or building a lengthy career in your country or country different from your home. Our panelists are from a variety of countries of origin, career stages, and practice areas and will share their experiences and field questions.

Description: Address how Medicare and Medicaid are integrated in DSNP plans, including: - Coordination of benefits - Model of Care - Care Coordination - Licensure - Difference between DSNPs and MMP plans - Pricing Assumptions - New proposals for more integration By attending this session, you will be able to understand how DSNP plans are integrated between Medicaid and Medicare and what CMS is doing to integrate them further.

Description: Discover an update on recent developments affecting U.S. retirement plans, such as regulatory guidance, new legislative proposals, recent court cases and recent trends. Experienced pension actuaries will share their perspectives on these issues and the impact on plan sponsors.

Description: Explore concepts related to self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management. Go beyond understanding what emotional intelligence (EQ) is to discover how to use it to build skills that enhance intelligence, education and experience to more quickly and consistently reach personal and professional goals.

Description: Several states have recently enacted new legislation limiting the use of external customer data for selection and modeling. The NAIC Working Group on accelerated underwriting focuses on external data and models to create some consistency. Explore an overview of the potential impact and what insurers might do in response.

Description: Actuaries and underwriters are trained in different skills and approach risk selection from different perspectives. These differences sometimes lead to silos and limited interactions within companies as each one focuses on executing their area of expertise. With new underwriting tools and risk selection processes, the existence of silos between actuaries and underwriters can stagnate an insurer's long-term success. But how do you truly break down these silos when each speaks a different language? Join a panel of actuaries and underwriters as they explore how the two worlds collide and where there can be improved room for collaboration in product development, risk assessment, and innovation. Find out how actuaries and underwriters can best work together to: - Find common understanding. - Align risk selection and pricing. - Ensure mortality and expense assumptions are realized in the course of new business sales.

Description: Innovation in technology has disrupted nearly every industry creating mounting internal and external pressures on organizations to accelerate the adoption of their digital agendas. The COVID-19 pandemic further brought to light the need for technology to be adaptable, powerful and scalable. As the insurance industry leaps into the future, actuaries must not only proactively refine their roles and responsibilities within insurance organizations, but also seek opportunities for improvements and optimization in their day-to-day work. Discover a variety of opportunities in using modern technology to streamline, accelerate and optimize actuarial processes. Cover a wide spectrum of actuarial solutions from automation of actuarial data transformation to actuarial reserve calculations and calibration of economic scenarios.

Description: The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) project for the transition to a new real-world economic scenario generator (ESG) prescribed for principle-based reserve and capital calculations selected a vendor in the fall of 2020. The American Academy of Actuaries and other interested parties have been assisting the NAIC in this transition. Over the past four years, extensive analysis, model validation, and comparison work has been done. There have been many updates on the project but few opportunities to obtain an in-depth understanding of the new features of the new ESG and its impact on reserves and capital. Practitioners are very interested in the questions: - How different are the scenarios from the Academy/Society of Actuaries ESG and the new NAIC ESG? - How different are the models and techniques used to create the scenarios in both generators? - Is there a significant difference in capital and reserve requirements for model office tests between the two ESGs? - Are there concerns with the new NAIC ESG? The session addresses each of these questions in detail. At the conclusion of the session attendees will appreciate the key differences between the model structure and scenario performance of the two ESGs and will understand the differences in capital and reserve requirements for model office tests across the two ESGs. Attendees will also learn how the initial yield curve fitting differs between the models, about fund mapping considerations, and the interpretability of parameters in the new NAIC model.