Description: Attend this webcast to learn more on how to navigate managing ESG principles in the new normal of a post-COVID world. Enhance your ESG insights in a post-pandemic landscape.

Description: Given the rise in interest rates during 2022, explore the implications of increasing rates on FA and FIA business by looking at industry experience for FA and FIA products for 2022 compared to earlier years. Additionally, come walk through partial withdrawals, GLWB utilization, mortality and what to expect as interest rate volatility continues. You'll also discover how direct writers and reinsurers are handing the in-force management aspects of these products in the uncertain and volatile economic periods. Key learning outcomes include: - Understand the impact of rising rates on dynamic lapse for FA and FIA products - Explanation ofin-force management actions that are being taken in the current interest rate environment - Be informed of current trends in GLWB utilization

Description: Learn how modernization of data, models, and technology are influencing workflows. This webcast will address how workflows are changing in response to new regulatory requirements and the impacts the changes have on modeling and end-to-end future state operating models. Industry leading actuaries will discuss: How team collaboration can increase quality and speed of reporting to internal and external stakeholders How to strengthen controls and compliance frameworks across finance and actuarial departments How to modernize actuarial input/output for strategic analysis and insights How to attract and retain top talent by improving opportunities for actuaries There will also be dedicated time to ask questions of those who have made the transition.

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.

Description: Amid macroeconomic uncertainty, proactive lapse management is becoming a growing strategic focus for Life and Annuity carriers. Interest rates have been increasing rapidly during the last eighteen months and insurers, especially annuity writers, have started to see higher lapses and withdrawals. After a prolonged low interest period, many insurers will have to (re)build capabilities to enable proactive lapse management.

Description: This is a request for surrender experience data for fixed-rate deferred annuities for the years 2023-2024 from the SOA Research Institute and LIMRA, outlining goals for updating a prior study and offering detailed outputs through a paid subscription to Experience Studies Pro.

Description: This report focuses on the Fixed Indexed Annuity (FIA) contract owner behavior study conducted by the SOA Research Institute and LIMRA for the years 2021-2022. It includes detailed analyses on withdrawals, surrender rates, contract values, distribution channels, and more.

Description: The document is a Request for Data Contributions for the 2022-23 Variable Annuity Contract Holder Behavior Experience Study. It outlines the purpose of the study, data submission procedures, important dates, data transmission instructions, study outputs, benefits to data contributors, and data access and ownership details.

Description: A lot is happening in the annuity industry. The presenters will provide an overview of key developments in annuities and their implications to product actuaries. They will discuss recent product and market trends in fixed, indexed and variable annuities. They will also explore emerging regulatory requirements affecting annuities, such as VM-22 and Best Interest rules, as well as how they may impact product development. - Learn about recent product and market trends in annuities - Be informed of key emerging regulatory developments affecting annuities - Understand how these developments may affect product development

Description: 2022 was a year of radical change for the annuity market as interest rates increased off historic lows. The rapid growth of RILA products stalled as FIA and MYGA products gained market share. The impacts of the higher rate environment are continuing to be realized in experience, inforce management, product design and more. Come explore the retail annuity market with a focus on the impacts of higher interest rates. Session materials will draw on experience studies, sales results, product changes, and more to examine how higher interest rates have changed the annuity market.