Description: How does mortality experience impact earnings under the new GAAP financial framework? This article discusses how to isolate key components from financial models related to decrements, as well as how to handle the changes in the financial reporting landscape including: the aggregation of insurance policies into cohorts, dynamic reserving, and the limitations imposed by caps and floors. Looking at the components of earnings, such as the present value of benefits, expenses, and premiums, and how these elements interact is critical to form a comprehensive earnings story.

Description: Panel discussion of managers of actuaries discussing do's and don'ts of managing actuaries in a virtual world. When employees no longer come into the office five days per week, eight hours each day, how do you maintain productivity, team building, morale? How do you facilitate team work and ensure camaraderie is improved? The great reset, not the great resignation! As employees figure out if they want to be 100% remote, or 100% in the office, or somewhere in between, and employers determine their stance on in-office for virtual, the actuarial workforce is resetting itself with employees finding their lifestyle match with employers. Zoom, Teams, WebEx - 'you're on mute' might be the most used business phrase in the past 4 years! Managers can glean helpful insights that will make them more effective managing their actuarial teams.

Description: How are regulation and innovation intertwined? How do we regulate AI/ML in the insurance industry? We will cover how regulators are striking the balance between protection of their constituents and supporting innovation. We will zoom into the case of Predictive Analytics and the regulatory attempt at avoiding undue discrimination. Let's discuss what this really means.