Description: Listen to an update of the Social Security Program's financial status as presenters discuss current status and recent proposals for modifying the program. At the conclusion of the session, enjoy a better understanding of the current status of the Social Security Program, its funding status, various challenges it faces, and a variety of suggestions that have been made to overcome those challenges. By attending the session, you will be able to: - Demonstrate a deeper understanding of the financial status of Social Security. - Be better informed about the opportunities for change in the program. - Understand challenges it faces, and a variety of suggestions that have been made to overcome those challenges.

Description: This session will uncover the mystical findings that can be uncovered when leveraging a reinsurer. Insights discussed during this session include mortality at high face amounts, interactions between lapses and mortality, mortality improvement on low face amounts, fully underwritten mortality by Resident State and more. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to identify where reinsurer data can help uncover insights, how mortality and lapse knowledge can improve product performance and what some mortality results can come from reinsurance research.

Description: Both LDTI and IFRS 17 have introduced numerous new metrics with most companies having only crossed the finish line, just complying with what's needed for reporting due the complexity and large amounts of data required to simply comply. How do you leverage all the work you did to get proper business insights across the organization that tie back to these reporting metrics?

Description: Modern actuarial work, being quite data intensive, provides many opportunities for actuaries to use the statistical skills that are part of their basic training. Furthermore, modern computing allows us to analyze vast quantities of data intensively, and each package will provide statistical 'answers' to any questions the actuary might ask of it.

Description: Future mortality improvement is an important assumption in the valuation of life insurance. In this session, presenters will discuss the work of the Life Mortality Improvements Subgroup (LMISG) of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Mortality and Longevity Oversight Advisory Council (MLOAC) developing mortality improvement scales for individual life insurance.

Description: The session will focus on International Financial Reporting Standards 17 (IFRS17) implementation, including methodologies (classifications, different measurement models, fulfillment cash flows, and contract service margins) for various U.S. products, operational challenges, controls, IFRS17/GAAP comparisons and analytics.

Description: Medicare Advantage plans have been in the market for two decades. In this session, we survey the landscape changes from 2006 up to now, which include but not limited to the changes of enrollment, plan types, big players' market share, policies, and how players as well as beneficiaries react to the changes. This session intends to provide general MA knowledge and history to the audience with or without Medicare Advantage background.

Description: Is 2024 the year you need to implement U.S. GAAP Long-Duration Targeted Improvements for individual health insurance products? In this session, we will discuss implementation and the importance of working with accountants and IT to ensure a successful implementation. Some requirements will be a surprise to health actuaries.

Description: Sarah Rockhill, MPH, Geospatial Epidemiologist at CDC will discuss the latest in the Public Health 3.0 model in which leaders serve as Chief Health Strategists, partnering across multiple sectors and leveraging data and resources to address social, environmental, and economic conditions that affect health and health equity.

Description: Value-based care (VBC) arrangements have grown exponentially in recent years with an expectation that this shift will only continue across the health care industry. CMS has set the goal of having 100% of traditional Medicare and the vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030.