Description: Session 7G: The Battle for Small Groups

Description: VIRTUAL - Actuarial Professionalism: Judge and Jury

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: 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: 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: 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: Explore a brief overview of federal income taxation of health insurers and selected technical tax topics during this panel discussion webcast. You'll dive into the evolution of heath insurers and healthcare-related services and the arising questions regarding their risk-bearing activities, as well as whether or not certain types of healthcare businesses qualify as "insurance companies" for federal income tax purposes. Also, expect to learn about loss reserves for guaranteed renewable contracts and how they can affect insurance company tax status. This webcast will continue to highlight how the IRS challenges loss reserves of health insurers as the panelists review the status of tax cases, IRS guidance and recent IRS activity regarding "margins."