Take a look at risk management up close--and gain insight into risk management successes, challenges and solutions. Experts will talk about whether we have been proactive in the right areas, how the risk management functions operate, whether we've really learned from the financial crisis and how that is shaping risk management today. Former FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair and Yale University Professor Emeritus of Sociology Charles B. Perrow headline the symposium.

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.

Asset Liability Management (ALM) Techniques and Practices has both reflected and influenced industry best practices, regulatory guidance and rating agency assessment. This course is a must for anyone responsible for risk management. Past course participants have immediately put to use the tools and techniques provided, used insights gained to prepare for reviews with rating agencies and regulators and have realized real bottom line results from being able to execute sophisticated ALM strategies across multiple dimensions of interest rate risk, perform risk optimization and apply ALM at a strategic level. Earn CPD credit by attending the meeting at any one of the locations above!

Asset Liability Management (ALM) Seminar provides an unsurpassed opportunity to network with leading risk professionals involved in ALM, dynamic hedging, stochastic modeling and asset management. Hear from prominent experts in the field on the latest ALM topics. Participate in facilitated workshop sessions that address your specific issues. Attend the premier ALM seminar for insurance and pension practitioners and get plugged in to the ALM community.

This boot camp is a practical hands-on training program designed to give participants tangible skills that can be applied immediately to successfully implement ERM at their organization. This program uses a stimulating and dynamic combination of lectures, individual exercises, small group exercises, large group exercises, and case studies.  

Register today for this course, geared toward risk professionals and decision makers. Advance your practice in enterprise risk management (ERM) by learning how to integrate ERM with strategic planning and execute ERM beyond risk mitigation as part of a strategic decision making framework to run the business. As an attendee you'll participate in a mock risk committee, practice the risk control process in a case study group and gain hands-on experience drafting an ERM framework. You will bring home templates and knowledge that will enable you to implement a best practices ERM framework.

Essentials and Master Class provide hands-on classroom training on dynamic hedging taught by two of the leading experts in the field. The half day Essentials course covers the essential concepts of dynamic hedging. The Master Class is an intensive one-day course that provides hands-on practice and teaches participants how to implement a dynamic hedging program for equity-based guarantees. The Workshop is a half day industry forum for dynamic hedging professionals working for insurance companies where they can participate in a survey of industry practices and discussion of issues facing industry for the purpose of advancing the risk management practices in this area.

Asset Liability Management (ALM) Techniques and Practices has both reflected and influenced industry best practices, regulatory guidance and rating agency assessment. This course is a must for anyone responsible for risk management. Past course participants have immediately put to use the tools and techniques provided, used insights gained to prepare for reviews with rating agencies and regulators and have realized real bottom line results from being able to execute sophisticated ALM strategies across multiple dimensions of interest rate risk, perform risk optimization and apply ALM at a strategic level. Earn CPD credit by attending the meeting at any one of the locations above!

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.

Participants of this virtual session will learn to identify key product offerings and trends, identify considerations when evaluating a product portfolio, and develop an understanding of some of the risks that life insurance companies face in this marketplace.

The SOA and CFA Institute have both completed research projects surveying the evidence on the equity risk premium. During this webcast you will get to hear the authors' take on the rewards for investing in equity and other risky asset classes. Presenters will discuss ways to develop estimates of the equity risk premium, design better economic models and describe issues encountered in estimating equity returns.