Description: This article discusses challenges in innovation, governance, and balancing the tension that naturally arises between them. Company culture is often a driver of success or failure in innovation. This article outlines a new dynamic to address this challenge.

Description: The article discusses the continued popularity of indexed UL insurance and possible reasons why a company's actual indexed UL earnings may be below their original pricing expectations for the product. The article discusses several key items that may be the source of that underperformance (e.g., hedge ineffectiveness, policyholder behavior) and the need to monitor earnings and perform analyses to better understand those potential sources.

Description: Summary of recent changes to IRS Section 7702 Interest Rates, and how it will impact the design of life insurance products in the future.

Description: In this video, Ryan Kiefer from Deloitte Consulting introduces the concepts of mortality and longevity risk in the life insurance and annuity industry. He explains how insurance companies pool and diversify their risk exposure and use reinsurance to limit their losses. He also discusses the impact of broader mortality trends such as medical advances and COVID 19 on the insurance market. Contributors: Ryan Kiefer ASA, MAAA ; Anthony Champi , FSA, MAAA; Ryan Bruner FSA, MAAA; Jon Forster, ASA, MAAA

Description: Bell is comparing his roles from that of an actuary in the USA to that of an actuary working in Cameroon, for a pan-African insurance company.

Description: This article summarizes the findings of the 2020/2021 Milliman UL/IUL/VUL survey. The survey covers a range of specific product and actuarial issues and the results provide a good tool for benchmarking

Description: In this video, Malika Visram, a life valuation actuary, explains the differences between term life, whole life, and universal life insurance products. She also discusses the actuarial aspects of pricing and risk management for these products. Watch the video to learn more about the world of life insurance and the role of actuaries in it. Contributors: Malika Visram; Scott Allen, FSA, MAAA; Razi Hasnain, ASA, ACIA; Jon Forster, ASA, MAAA

Description: The life insurance industry has experienced dramatic changes since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. Growing competition, a rise in online shopping, and the impact of COVID-19 have all led to an increase in contactless and completely digitized life insurance options. At Policygenius, we wanted to dig deeper into these big industry changes and better understand how they affect life insurance buyers. What our 2022 life insurance trend report found was a changing industry, making tremendous strides, and creating even better pricing and policy options for customers.

Description: Written in reaction to the AG49-A "quick-fix" passed, this article covers the history of IULillustration regulation. It begins by covering major product development and regulationmilestones to date, with numerical examples to show their impacts on illustrations. It thenexplains how the "quick-fix" works and what its impact on illustrations is. Lastly, the articlelooks forward to what could be in store in the future for IUL illustrations.

Description: Insurers are struggling to keep pace with rapidly changing economic conditions, customer needs and regulation. We at Oliver Wyman believe there is an opportunity for many insurers to generate more customer value and fuel their growth by rethinking their approach to Product Development.