Description: This training session will include lessons learned in 2021 and revisit a presentation given last year, discussing the new Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP56), which fills in the gap for guidance on Actuarial Modeling. Prior to ASOP 56, actuarial judgement reigned where standards and guidance lacked. Learn the foundation for designing, developing, modifying and validating a model according to SOA guidelines. By attending this session, you will: • Learn how to identify model’s intended purpose. • Strategically extract input data and assumptions. • Use the level of detail required in output data as a consideration for model design. • Choose from SOA recommended validation techniques.

Description: "Every day we hear about the importance of diversity and inclusivity. As you continue in your career, you will begin to see the importance and value of a diverse and inclusive environment. As a leader, you can help build an inclusive environment for your team and your organization. Dr. Stephanie Johnson, University of Colorado professor and author of the book “Inclusify: The Power of Uniqueness and Belonging to Build Innovative Teams” will help you learn how to become an inclusive leader. At the conclusion of this session, you’ll be able to: · Understand the business case for diversity and inclusivity. · Understand what being inclusive means. · Gain five strategies you can use in your daily activities to be more inclusive."

Description: Investigate the concept of value annuities and the potential cost-effective differences when compared to traditional annuities by attending this webcast. Value annuities are an alternative lifetime income solution where longevity and investment risks are born by a pool of annuitants rather than a centralized insurer. Join this webcast for a closer look at the practicalities of designing and administering a value pool. There will also be a focus on the legislative, regulator and supervisory implications.

Description: Gene therapy is a quickly evolving field and will continue to grow as a risk concern for many health plans, stop loss insurers and reinsurers. Currently, there are only two approved gene therapies in the U.S., but that number is expected to escalate starting in the fall of 2022. Revisit the experience plans have had with the first two gene therapies, discuss plan design and network considerations in light of gene therapy, and discuss the actual composition of the near-term pipeline along with a range of modeled financial impacts and considerations for payers.

Description: Discover how to reacquaint professionalism with the actuarial science profession in this 75-minute webcast focused on the provision of dynamic standards that evolve with products and regulations. Listeners will learn about the future challenges in their ongoing work that professionalism skills will assist with. For actuaries in the US and Canada, come define ASOPS and professionalism entering 2023. This webcast will be interactive, providing several case studies with real life ethical issues where the audience will vote and discuss the appropriate course of action.

Description: ClubVita Session Series Longevity trend risk still exists even for the largest portfolios. Explore the differences in longevity improvements between different populations, how to categorize subpopulations with different trend risk characteristics, and how to use this categorization to reduce longevity trend basis risk.

Description: Learn about considerations and industry observed trends which cover different ways companies try to manage their inforce business in low and rapidly rising interest environments. You will explore M&A, block transaction, and offshore reinsurance solutions.

Description: EY Session Series Analyzing and understanding emerging LDTI and IFRS results. Industry disclosures to date of the key financial and business impacts. Initial reactions from analysts, investors, and rating agencies. Countdown to go live and current change management and readiness priorities.

Description: "Informal caregiving is far more costly than many people realize. And not just in the immediate future. Current demographic trends suggest that caregiving will become even more necessary and costly as the Baby Boomers continue to age and require more support and services. In 2022, the SOA engaged Milliman, Inc. to conduct an analysis of the need for informal caregiving and its impacts on employees, employers, and other stakeholders. The purpose of this research was to educate stakeholders, policymakers, and other interested parties on the realm of informal caregiving, as well as how the challenges associated with providing informal care of all kinds might be addressed. Discover key findings and themes from the research project, as well as stories highlighting the various forms this role can take, and solutions currently being developed around the country. An open discussion on ways our profession can impact this growing need with the work we do every day in our respective roles will also be included."

Description: Analyze the market volatility behavior in context with historical extreme events during this webcast. There will be a focus on understanding volatility clustering and relationships, both contemporary and temporal, in addition to key economic and capital market variables. You'll also learn from a comprehensive attribution analysis, which uses economic data, asset data, retail investor data and event data as explanatory variables. Dive into investment-related Reddit comments used to capture features of retail investors and tree-based models, including Random Forests and Gradient Boosting Machines to justify changes in volatility modeling. Expect this webcast to end with an example of liability-driven investment optimization that illustrates the potential impact of increased volatility assumption, how to adopt stochastic volatility models, how to reflect volatility clustering and return jumps.