Description: It happens every year: hurricanes, wildfires, and floods destroy property, interrupt routine care, and exacerbate chronic conditions. Clearly, general insurance and health actuaries need to reflect these conditions in their pricing projections even though there are lots of unanswered questions about the frequency, intensity, and location of significant events. In this session, the presenters will discuss how to reflect the impact of climate change in the day-to-day work of health and general insurance actuaries. After this session, attendees will be able to: - Describe the impact of climate change on property damage and healthcare - Identify relevant data sources and methods needed to reflect the impact of climate change for use in the day-to-day work of health and general insurance actuaries - Discuss the risk associated with climate change

Description: En el seminario hablaremos sobre los nuevos flujos de tarificación, y nos enfocaremos en la inclusión del análisis geográfico en el proceso de modelado para optimizar la extracción del riesgo en modelos de Machine Learning.

Description: Presenters will explain how traditional distribution channels are being reshaped by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, data analytics, and digital platforms. Participants will gain insights into how these technologies are not only enhancing customer experiences, but also enabling insurers to reach new markets and demographics more effectively. A central theme is the importance of collaboration and breaking down silos within insurance companies. The session will be interactive featuring case studies showcasing both the triumphs and failures of innovative distribution initiatives. By dissecting these case studies, participants will glean valuable lessons on what works and what doesn't when attempting to bring about change in life insurance distribution. Attendees will learn to appreciate the challenges faced by distribution and how collaboration across departments - from underwriting to marketing to IT - can unlock new opportunities and drive significant growth in distribution strategies.

Description: The insurance industry is faced with many unforeseen changes such as recent advances in technologies and the associated impacts on the risk assessments. In this session, we focus on two specific developments; (i) the liquidity provision problem on automated market makers (a.k.a. DeFi exchanges such as Uniswap) and the conditions under which liquidity providers should enter or exit the DeFi token pools; and (ii) efficient utilization of drivers telematics data for better risk classification in personal auto insurance.

Description: The landscape of insurance is ever evolving with pet insurance emerging as a significant and rapidly growing segment. This webinar will cover a broad spectrum of topics essential for actuaries venturing into pet insurance, including: The pet insurance market, including major players, consolidation of the market, M&A activity. Actuarial issues like anti-selection spirals and the need (and opportunity) for growth. Regulatory headwinds. Whether you're new to pet insurance or looking to deepen your expertise, this webinar will provide you with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate this growing field successfully.

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.

Description: Dive into an overview of potential customer value propositions, trends in consumer acceptance and adoption, solving the data portability issue, potential impacts of emerging partner ships with OEMs and more within the auto insurance industry during our latest webcast. Experience interactive dialogue that will allow another dimension of thinking as industry experts provide insights and expertise. Throughout this webcast, you can expect developments in the personal lines automotive telematics-based insurance landscape that will develop a further understanding of the present and future of this industry.

Description: This session will examine bias from a social science perspective. It will discuss the three types of systemic biases using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) model. The NIST model details the three types as historical bias, societal bias, and institutionalbias. The session will also provide several examples of each type to provide a framework for identifying the social structure of bias.

Description: In this panel discussion, actuarial leaders in the stop-loss marketplace provide their perspectives on recent stop-loss trends. Learn about the most current issues facing self-funded plans and their stop-loss coverage. Take part in a deeper discussion on this topic and more at Oysters, Beers & Large Claim Solutions on Tuesday, June 27, from 4:30-5:30 p.m. PT. This happy hour, featuring drinks and tasty Pacific Northwest oysters will include a discussion on the large claims impacts on the health care market.

Description: Increasing cyber incidents and emergent characteristics of cyber threats have become significant concerns for organizations, governments, and the insurance sector. The growing cyber risks, whether catastrophic risks that an entire town, country, or even world may face due to cyber-attacks, or smaller scale cyber risks such as right where you live with smart home technology, can impact technological infrastructure, public health and safety, economic security, and even political stability. The SOA Research Institute has been conducting several research projects in the area of cyber security risks and the impact of those on insurance companies. Discover these research projects meant to inform actuaries of the ways in which risks can be incorporated into their models, product design, and risk management frameworks. Also, explore research reports that explore new technologies and the development of tools which can aid both practitioners as well as other researchers.