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: Recent LA wildfires exemplified the devastating impacts of compounding weather extreme events. This webcast explores the inherent risk posed by various types of compounding events, proposes statistical techniques to quantify the impacts of compounding events and how this will evolve under a warmer climate. As compound events continue to evolve, it will become increasingly important to monitor and consider risk models and analyses to provide more comprehensive and accurate risk assessments and, ultimately, support more effective disaster preparedness and mitigation efforts. One way to improve preparedness is the underwriting of these risks through geospatial imagery and high-resolution image technology, which have spurred advances across many industries. The webcast will further discuss the importance of building footprint data for risk assessment and examine how building data and vegetation cover data can be used in calculating underwriting wildfire risk metrics.

Description: Are you looking for a way to gain name recognition, earn CPD credit hours, and establish yourself as an expert? Authoring an article for an SOA Section can help you accomplish those goals. Send your article idea to the sections’ volunteer editors to be considered for publication. Generally, the type of article being sought is one that provides information an actuary can apply directly to their job and/or career.

Description: Review the table of contents for 2018.1 Actuarial Research Clearing House.

Description: These videos are the keynote presentations from the Actuarial Research Conference 2019, held August 14 to 17, 2019 at Indiana University-Perdue University in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Description: This committee will periodically study and analyze the social security program, particularly as to provisions for retirement income and disability benefits.

Description: Listing of SOA department contact information, including emails.

Description: Call For Essays: Managing Extreme Event Risk-Reinsurance Tools and Solutions

Description: The North American Actuarial Journal (NAAJ) is a rich source of deep academic research relevant to the actuarial profession. Most busy practicing actuaries have limited capacity to transform the NAAJ research into a practical application that they can use in their current work. With this call for essays, the SOA provides enterprising actuaries the opportunity to highlight practical applications of one or more research papers to be published in an upcoming issue of the NAAJ.

Description: RFP for Alternative Investments in Asia Pacific Markets