Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has provided comments on the draft definition to the NAIC.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) and its Financial Reporting Section (FRS) announce the launch of The International Financial Reporting for Insurers (IFRI) book. This resource is a collaborative effort between actuaries and accountants to help understand the concepts behind financial reporting under the International Financial Reporting Standards® (IFRS) issued in May 2017.

Description: With climate risk issues receiving increased focus in 2020 and poised for even greater attention from the public and public policymakers in 2021, the Actuaries Climate Index continues to provide important up-to-date data for discussions on climate policy.

Description: NAIC Approves SOA GI Track for Qualified Actuary Education.

Description: A comprehensive webcast designed to bring together industry practitioners to discuss the current state of Model Risk Management (MRM) frameworks. This event will delve into the advancements in MRM, the challenges faced by professionals in the field, and emerging trends such as machine learning model validation that are set to shape the future of MRM. Engage with experts, share knowledge, and explore innovative solutions to enhance the effectiveness of your MRM framework.

Description: This video explains how cloud computing and APIs can help deploy AI solutions and their impact on the actuarial profession. It compares the old and new world of actuarial modelling using these technologies and discusses what actuaries should know about them. The video is presented by Arthur da Silva, FSA, MAAA the VP of Actuarial at Slope Software, a cloud-native actuarial platform.

Description: In this video Matt Emery, FSA, MAAA, CERA delves into advancing Value-Based arrangements between plans and providers to uplift healthcare services. These initiatives aim to cut costs, refine coding accuracy, bolster quality measures, streamline care coordination, and enrich member benefits. Success hinges on engaging members effectively, executing robust cost strategies, utilizing predictive models, targeting specific populations, structuring payment plans, and optimizing data exchange for superior healthcare outcomes and enduring partnerships. Contributors: Matt Emery FSA, MAAA, CERA; Mitchell Momanyi FSA, MAAA; Jon Forster ASA, MAAA

Description: This session is designed to inform you about the current state of mental health and mental health care in the United States, as well as future trajectories. By exploring topics such as plan design, provider network, provider reimbursement, and other relevant channels, this session aims to enlighten everyone on existing challenges and the strategies being employed to tackle them. Notably, this will include and highlight proposed changes to the mental health parity. Additionally, attendees will hear from a mental health provider/academic on these topics to gain a non-actuarial perspective.

Description: This session will address the risk management, reserving and capital issues associated with index-linked annuities including financial reporting considerations for FIAs and RILAs, benefits of combining VA and RILA hedging and reserving under VM-21, current and future challenges with FIA reserving under VM-22, potential capital redundancy for FIAs, RILA interim values under AG 54, NAIC economic scenario reform, asset modeling, fund mapping and more!

Description: This session is open to all, but targeted to pension actuaries looking to understand the mechanics of how PRT is priced by life insurance actuaries, as well as life insurance actuaries who wish to understand how the stream of expected benefit payments and Accrued Benefits Obligation is calculated by Retirement Actuaries. Pension Risk Transfer involves two distinct disciplines of the actuarial profession. To date, understanding the other side of Pension Risk Transfer has been limited. This session will attempt to clarify the mechanics of the other side of PRT and explain how an actuarial model consolidating the two separate sides can be built. Panelists will include a retirement consulting actuary who helps retirement plan sponsors bring their pension plans to market to purchase PRT, as well as an experienced life insurer who works to price PRT.