Description: Unique Data Analysis Techniques to help plans find that 1% edge in opportunity and value. The discussion will vary from a conversation on members who are at high catastrophic risk to provider networks and referral patterns. The goal of the session will be to help show ways plans can create savings through outside-the-box techniques.

Description: Given the rise in interest rates during 2022, explore the implications of increasing rates on FA and FIA business by looking at industry experience for FA and FIA products for 2022 compared to earlier years. Additionally, come walk through partial withdrawals, GLWB utilization, mortality and what to expect as interest rate volatility continues. You'll also discover how direct writers and reinsurers are handing the in-force management aspects of these products in the uncertain and volatile economic periods. Key learning outcomes include: - Understand the impact of rising rates on dynamic lapse for FA and FIA products - Explanation ofin-force management actions that are being taken in the current interest rate environment - Be informed of current trends in GLWB utilization

Description: The SOA Research Institute and LIMRA have completed the most up-to-date study of variable annuity contract owner behavior. Learn more about this vital resource for actuaries working with annuities.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is pleased to present historical U.S. population mortality rates by sex and single year of age for calendar years 2000-2021.

Description: Attend this webcast to learn more on how to navigate managing ESG principles in the new normal of a post-COVID world. Enhance your ESG insights in a post-pandemic landscape.

Description: In this session, we will provide examples and highlight real-world analytics that have been done to compare providers of tertiary and quaternary (T/Q) services (i.e., complex and potentially rare conditions). We also will address the need for analytics like this, who the potential audiences are, the data necessary to complete an analysis, and we will walk through actual case studies.

Description: The presenters will discuss current focuses in behavioral healthcare (MH/SUD). This may include cost and utilization trends, access to care, modalities of care (e.g., telehealth, app-based solutions, etc.), and other hot topics. The attendees will hear perspectives related to the overall landscape of behavioral healthcare in the US and how that impacts actuaries.

Description: Session 3A: State-Specific Enrollment Modeling - Understanding Disenrollment Trends and Population Dynamics

Description: The most recent U.S. population data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and from the U.S. Census at year-end 2021 includes the first ten months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. While we know the pandemic has had significant impacts on both the U.S. population and insured population mortality, we also see increased mortality due to many other non-COVID causes of death. Where are the biggest changes and what does this non-COVID excess mortality mean over the next few years? Take part as an expert panel hosts an interactive discussion to examine data from general population as well as from both individual life and group life experience studies to explore how these changes might spur innovation in underwriting, assumption setting and pricing.

Description: Papers: Multi-Population Longevity Models: A Spatial Random Field Approach– Nhan Huynh, Mike Ludkovski, Ph.D. - University of California at Santa Barbara, Howard Zail - Elucider, LLC. The Application of Affine Processes in Cohort Mortality Risk Models – Zhiping Huang, Michael Sherris, FSA, FIAA, FIA, Andres M. Villegas Ramirez, Ph.D., Jonathan Ziveyi, Ph.D. - UNSW Australia