Description: The rising interest rate environment has presented more attractive alternatives for VA risk management, but the benefits of different strategies can vary significantly by block of business. This session will highlight key drivers for risk management decisions for variable, fixed index, and registered index-linked annuities. With the viewpoints from different direct writers, reinsurers and preliminary findings of the 2024 Milliman Derivatives Study, the session will then show how product mix, tenure, and regulatory regime influence strategic decision-making. At the end of the session, the audience will help make strategic decisions on sample blocks of business and see how their choices play out in different hypothetical scenarios.

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: Sales of index-linked annuities such as FIAs and RILAs have been setting new records while sales of traditional VAs have been declining. This webcast will survey the latest generation of FIA and RILA products, examining the impact of the current market environment and how the landscape is expected to change when the FED starts cutting interest rates.

Description: Guarenteed Minimum Benefits of type x (GMxB) riders under ASU 2018-12, the Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI) guidance, are now classified as Market Risk Benefits (MRBs). There are several acceptable approaches for calculating the MRB balance on a block of GMxBs. Depending on the product provisions, certain approaches may be more desirable than others. IThis session will give you the opportunity to examine different strategies for calculating the MRB liability for GMxB riders under LDTI.By the end of the session, you will understand the pros and cons of the several approaches permitted for calculating the MRB balance on a block of GMxBs.

Description: Large SEC US GAAP filers implemented LDTI 1/1/2023. Other insurance companies have until 1/1/2025. Learn more about those companies with a 2025 implementation date. What do these companies need to know? What can be learned from the 2023 implementers? What are the biggest hurtles to implementation?

Description: Go over how the actuarial processes have changed over the past 10+ years with the move to PBR, US GAAP LDTI, IFRS 17 and other emerging requirements.

Description: Much has been published about the increased financial statement volatility under U.S. GAAP Long Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI). Discover more about tools and techniques that actuaries and other financial reporting professionals can use to reduce volatility risk and understand the relationships between certain risks and volatility. By attending the session, you will learn to identify sources of financial statement volatility under LDTI and methods to manage or reduce the volatility.

Description: Dive into Risk-Based Capital concepts and learn about regulatory updates that have recently been implemented, as well as future updates under development. Come examine reinsurance solutions and considerations which manage risk and RBC, including traditional reinsurance, financial reinsurance, and captive solutions.

Description: Actuaries and their IT counterparts are required to collaborate more frequently and on more complex projects than ever before. The recent accounting changes (LDTI, IFRS 17, PBR), investor demands for increased transparency, and competitive pressures have led to many insurers undertaking large actuarial and financial transformations. As a result, senior management is challenging their actuarial and IT leaders to develop new processes that use data in new and improved ways. The actuarial and IT functions are being tasked with not only delivering on changes to systems, processes, and data, but also with rethinking how their teams collaborate and interact

Description: The Smaller Insurance Company/Chief Actuary Forum presents a unique format for focusing on issues faced by actuaries in leadership positions or actuaries supporting the Chief Actuary. By discussing critical issues with your peers, you will leave with ideas to incorporate in your business environment. The Forum will feature presentations to introduce several of the discussion topics, followed by an opportunity to break into smaller discussion groups and rotate among topics.