Description: Actuarial projects have become more intricate, involving external resources and requests beyond the actuarial team's purview. Whether a task appears minor or exceptionally complex, adept project and change management play a pivotal role in successful execution. In this session, we explore practical strategies for tailoring implementation management approaches.

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 article starts with the increasing attention that FP&A receives due to the implementation of new financial regimes and emphasizes the collaborative nature of FP&A. It then describes the roles that actuaries play in FP&A, the new demands for actuaries that we are observing, and suggests some best practices that we are seeing across the clients. This article targets to point out the new demands from FP&A on actuaries and provide some advice on how actuaries can do to meet these demands.

Description: The Taxing Times Editorial Board acknowledges the invaluable contributions of our colleague, Art Schneider, who passed away in August. Throughout his career as a tax accountant, Art generously shared his time and talents to help actuaries and other tax professionals increase their understanding of insurance industry tax topics. We will miss him.

Description: Harnessing the transformative power of recent accounting changes, US GAAP LDTI in the US and IFRS17 globally, insurers around the globe are embracing changes in their operating models. These changes impact areas of processes, technology, data, and, arguably most importantly, people. As insurers continue to evolve and streamline their financial reporting processes under the new standards, many have identified needs for organizational transformation to align actuarial, finance and technology teams in a cohesive manner to support the new financial reporting requirements.