Description: Recent and potential near future extreme experiences are leading us to a new normal rather than back to the prior environment. Learn more about several examples of past Regime Changes along with a detailed discussion of how recent disruptions lead toward a persistent change in the business, social and political environment. Come develop an understanding of these drivers of change as well as the likely impacts on the Financial Services industry.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has been an acute reminder of the material impacts that pandemics can have on Life (re)insurance and society at large. Learn to describe the journey of a Life reinsurance practitioner to model and operationalize pandemic and infectious disease risk, why this is of importance to actuaries, and their risk management. It will consider how such models have been used, developments over time, and challenges in using and calibrating these models. The session will also provide perspectives from a pandemic model provider who will describe the fundamental metrics for pandemic loss distributions and how learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic can be used to quantify the potential impact of the next pandemic. Finally, dive into an outline of how biological principles can be applied to anticipating plausible pathogens causing the next pandemic.

Description: The Mortality Improvement subgroup of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Work Group and the Society of Actuaries’ Mortality and Longevity Oversight Advisory Council released a recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes. This recommendation has been adopted by the NAIC’s Life Actuarial Task Force.

Description: This project models and forecasts premature cardiovascular mortality, with a focus on two main risk factors - obesity status and education attainment level. It investigates the role of obesity and education in determining age-sex-specific premature cardiovascular mortality.

Description: This report explores the behavioral factors influencing insurance purchase among Gen Z and Millennials for forward-looking purposes, leveraging a rich dataset spanning 22 markets across six continents.

Description: Virtual - Session 2C: Innovative Care Models for Medicare & Medicaid Dually - Eligible Populations

Description: The document is a report on U.S. Population Mortality Observations updated with 2022 experience by R. Jerome Holman, FSA, MAAA. It covers mortality trends, analyses by factors like sex, age group, and cause of death, and includes methodological details for the data presented.

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: This document discusses the comparison of lifetables generated using classic demographic techniques and the Human Mortality Database method protocol for socioeconomic deciles from 1982 to 2022. It explains differences in estimation methods, calculation steps for lifetables, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and a comparison of lifetable values.

Description: This report presents research into recent population mortality experience compiled by the Retirement Plans Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute as it pertains to development of mortality improvement assumptions for measuring obligations of retirement programs in the United States.