Description: When setting reserves, multiple methods are often used in the creation of the reserve estimate. Judgment is warranted to combine these different estimates into a final recommendation. This paper describes two techniques that can be used to combine these estimates that may result in better accuracy and lower variance.

Description: This webcast will explore hedge strategies that can take advantage of synergies with existing business, improve liquidity and collateral management, incorporate opportunistic design-making, and reflect a company’s appetite for certain risks where excess returns can be earned.

Description: In recent years, there has been an uptick in new defined benefit plans and previously frozen plans have reopened to take advantage of surplus assets. However, few of these new plans are what we would call traditional defined benefit plans. This webcast will discuss the design of the new (and reopened) plans - both single and multi- employer - and the rationale behind them.

Description: El webcast presentará una comparación de alto nivel de los acuerdos internacionales de financiamiento de la atención de la salud y proporcionará una comparación y contrato con los modelos de Colombia y otros modelos latinoamericanos.

Description: AI Insights for Actuaries: A Virtual Symposium

Description: In our first event, we will explore the interaction of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Risk Management in Financial Services. This hour-long virtual session will include engaging discussions and virtual refreshments.

Description: 2025 Asia Monthly

Description: Join us for this popular annual webcast covering the latest considerations for the year's U.S. statutory financial reporting work. Get ready to hear from three expert speakers, who will discuss: - Cash flow testing and this year’s New York and California holiday letters - The impact of recent interest rate changes - Potential changes to statutory financial reporting due to climate change - Updates regarding Principle Based Reserves ASOP 22 Statements of Actuarial Opinion Based on Asset Adequacy Analysis for Life Insurance, Annuity, or Health Insurance Reserves and - Other Liabilities

Description: Wildfire smoke is reshaping health risks nationwide. A new Society of Actuaries Research Institute study links fine particulate matter (PM2.5) to rising rates of respiratory, cardiovascular, mental health, and cancer conditions—effects that can last long after the fires fade. Join this one-hour webcast to explore how wildfire-related pollution and extreme heat are influencing morbidity, insurance costs, and predictive modeling—and what actuaries, insurers, and policymakers can do to respond.

Description: Healthcare cost trends remain a cornerstone of actuarial practice and forecasting for employer-sponsored health plans. This session will examine recent and emerging healthcare drivers of medical and prescription drug trends using data and methodologies drawn from two research efforts focusing on projecting trends and total cost of care.