Dave Dillon interviews Jeremy Benson and Wendy Broadrick on the topic of Level-Funding. Topics included an overview of Level-Funding, how Level-Funding has evolved over time, how it compares to Fully-Insured and Traditional Stop-Loss and considerations for success in the Level-Funded market.

This podcast is the first in our series “Drink in the Details,” featuring casual discussions with experts on a variety of financial reporting topics. Join Chris Whitney, as he shares a beer and discusses Life Principles-Based Reserving (PBR) with Ben Slutsker and Dylan Strother.

Join Jackie Lee and the SOA’s Young Professional Advisory Council (YPAC) Chairperson, Kristen Long, ASA at Unum, to learn more about YPAC and the opportunities it offers for the next generation of actuaries.  Topics discussed include the recent Emerging Leaders Summit, networking, and the YPAC’s goals.  Learn how volunteering or becoming a member of YPAC can further your own actuarial career ambitions, whether you provide an additional inspirational voice, or are an aspiring actuarial professional.

Listen now as Chris Ryan, FSA, MAAA, Al Klein, FSA, MAAA, and Tami Britton, FALU, FLMI, FLHC, AIRC, ACS, ARA, LTCP, discuss the upcoming SOA Underwriting Issues and Innovation Seminar. This podcast briefly describes the history of the seminar, what happens “behind the scenes” to create the seminar, why the seminar is important to both underwriters and actuaries, and provides a “sneak peek” at some of the sessions that will be in the 2021 seminar.

Jing Lang, FSA, FCIA, FLMI, MAAA, talks with Lisa Bull, President of Lechner & Associates, on discovering your true impact and unlocking stretch opportunities tailored to your professional and personal goals.

Fred Andersen, the Chief Life Actuary of the Minnesota Department of Commerce, discusses efforts to create a more uniform review process related to LTC rate increases. Fred also provides details about what this review process will entail in the future

Diving deeper into the pharmacy medicine series for pharmacy development and its process, Jackie Lee chats with Jonathan Gray and returning guest Kerri Miller about precision medicine.  Learn how manufacturers are beginning to get actuarial and health plan perspectives to enhance their budget-impact models, and how health plans can project new drug costs to enhance their pricing forecasts and negotiations with manufacturers.  Actuaries who work with health plans of all sizes can hear about specific resources in identifying populations for a drug, making appropriate assumptions, improving projections, and how to contribute earlier on in the drug development process.

Flick Fornia interviews Michael Imber of Conway MacKenzie, a part of Riveron, about the potential for governments to contribute hard assets as a means of funding municipal pensions.

Ron Hagelman and John Hebig discuss the key findings from the Long-Term Care producer survey that Ice Floe Consulting and Oliver Wyman performed over the past year.

The 2021 election of new Modeling Section Council members is approaching! Listen now as April Shen, FSA, MAAA, interviews current section council members, Uri Sobel, FSA, MAAA, and Kevin Durand, FSA, MAAA, on their experiences. They also give a great introduction to both the Modeling Section and council with insights from 2021.

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If you are interested in joining the section council, please fill in an expression of interest form at https://www.soa.org/programs/elections/sections/ by June 1.

If you have any questions about the election, please feel free to email our speakers: [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected].