Don't miss the life insurance industry's leading conference, where you can learn the latest tactics, strategies and product development ideas that will affect your business. The sessions are designed for life insurance professionals and thought leaders, with topics ranging from regulatory and markets to reinsurance and product development.

Join the hundreds of retirement industry professionals who will attend the 2013 Retirement Industry Conference to gain insight on the latest industry developments and equip themselves with solutions to address the complex challenges they face every day. The conference sessions are full of great information with experts discussing everything from strategic planning to risk management.

Decisions being made now will impact ongoing health care cost trends, product design for health insurance exchanges, relationships between physician and hospital costs, and other actuarial topics. This seminar will cover core elements of provider payment reform, technical training, case studies and other immediate implications.

This year's symposium features sessions covering current and practical life industry topics, like the impact of the low interest rate environment, rating agency perspectives on the life industry, an updated view of variable annuity products, and much more. Many of these sessions will offer a global perspective and are sure to connect with you-where ever you live.

This Smaller Insurance Company Section-sponsored webcast will discuss the evolution of current life insurance and annuity modeling practices and explore key emerging issues that small company actuaries face with respect to modeling. For each of these issues, the presenters will explain how to relate available professional guidance in a practical manner.

This webcast will provide insight into PRIDIT, a statistical method with a variety of actuarial applications. Topics will include an overview of what the method is, its history and applications. The presenters will then describe the specific application of PRIDIT to hospital quality, including results of a new SOA research study, "Validating the PRIDIT Method for Determining Hospital Quality with Outcomes Data," which looked into variation in hospital quality nationwide.

This webcast will present the results of a study sponsored by the Financial Reporting Section, Committee on Life Insurance Research and Committee on Finance Research that summarizes the results of an online survey and follow-up discussions with survey respondents on the control systems U.S. and Canadian life insurance and annuity companies have currently implemented. Attendees will learn to assess their company's readiness to meet the necessary controls under a model-based approach for reserve and capital valuation (MBV) environment and gain an understanding of the key next steps to move from the current state to the desired state under MBV.

In this virtual session, representatives from the Canadian Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) Designated Group and from OSFI will discuss recent and upcoming changes to Canadian Standards of Practice and regulation. The update from The ASB Designated Group will cover the Notice of Intent to Revise Economic Reinvestment Assumptions within the Practice-Specific Standards on Insurance Contract Valuation. OSFI will provide an update on important regulatory issues and upcoming changes.