Description: Panelists from the home-based care industry will discuss the latest technology and services that enable and prolong the receipt of formal and informal care at home for the elderly and delay transitions to care facilities.

Description: General Session VI

Description: Behavioral Science is a powerful tool to enhance customer experience and improve outcomes across the life insurance value chain. This session will cover the foundations of behavioral concepts in a life insurance context and discuss practical areas that can benefit from behavioral science including customer engagement, disclosure, and retention. The session will leverage recent SOA research and specific experience in communication campaigns and call center best practices to translate theory to quantified results. Attendees will leave with an appreciation for potential challenges and practical steps to measure and demonstrate the value of implementing behavioral science.

Description: Dive into the released enhancements of MIM-2021, including a run through of its purpose and evolution, during this webcast. The Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program plans to release these updates in October. You will leave this webcast with an understanding of how to create a mortality improvement scale using the necessary steps and tools. Learn how to use MIM-2021 through instruction and demonstration that will properly prepare you to utilize this tool. There will be time for questions where you can ask about the projection process or provide feedback.

Description: Discover investing trends across the life and health industry as insurers seek to navigate rapidly changing rate and market environments. BlackRock will present results from its Peer Risk Study, which models industry holdings based on statutory filings at the CUSIP level. Through the Aladdin risk modeling software, expect a production of deep insights into insurer portfolio risk and return characteristics, as well as exploring how they have evolved. Keep an eye out for a partner to present on the evolution from their perspective. Start learning about what is happening on the asset side of the balance sheet across the industry.

Description: The Group Life COVID-19 Mortality Survey gathers a high-level view of U.S. Group Term Life Insurance mortality results during the COVID-19 pandemic through June 2023, as compared to prior period baseline mortality results. This new report is an update to the survey report released in May 2023, which contained data through December 2022.

Description: LIMRA and the SOA Research Institute have completed the most up-to-date study of term/whole life lapse/surrender. Twenty-eight companies contributed data to this Study, covering the seven-year period from policy anniversary in 2015 to policy anniversary in 2022.

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries and Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Research, the Product Development Section and the Financial Reporting Section, sponsored this study investigating how the Canadian life insurance industry is utilizing predictive modelling.

Description: Using recently updated data from the United States Mortality Database (USMDB, usa.mortality.org), this report presents an overview of historical mortality trends in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia for the period 1959-2018.