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.

Description: Come discuss modeling costs and its governance, as well as introduce some platforms for more granular asset modeling.

Description: Introduces the concept of total risk analysis, a methodology used to answer questions like "what are the chances we will lose more than $1 million"

Description: This survey tracks the relative rankings of risk managers about emerging risks across time. It is the 18th survey of emerging risks sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), administered by the Joint Risk Management Section.

Description: This session will consider how catastrophic gaps in risk management practices contributed to the failure of regional banks in the first half of 2023. Panelists will explore ERM practices and potential corrective actions, based on insurance industry and pension plan best practices, that could have mitigated against the failures.

Description: This report looks at identifying drivers of systemic risk in China’s insurance industry and develops a measurement method for systemic risk as well as systemic risk dependence between the insurance industry and other industries.

Description: This research report is on the incorporation of flood and other catastrophe model results into pricing and underwriting.

Description: The CIA, SOA and Joint Risk Management Section of the CAS, CIA, and the SOA sponsored a whitepaper on the application of ERM at a federal government level.

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: The Actuaries Climate Index has been updated with new quarterly data, revisions to initial data for previous periods, and annually updated values for the index’s drought and sea level components.