Intersector Group notes from January 2023 conference call with Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

Ronald Wilkins, vice chairperson of the Property and Casualty Risk-Based Capital (P/C RBC) Committee, presented preliminary results to NAIC's Property and Casualty Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group to recalibrate the reserve and premium risk charges—notably, for investment income.

The Academy has released an Essential Elements paper based on the Social Security Committee’s March 2022 issue brief Raising the Social Security Retirement Age.

The retirement age is a key consideration in addressing Social Security’s long-term financial health.

Essential Elements is a series of concise and informative papers developed by the Academy, designed to provide a quick and easy-to-understand overview of key public policy issues of interest.

Academy Health Vice President Barb Klever provided an update on Health Practice Council activities to the NAIC’s Health Actuarial (B) Task Force (HATF) at NAIC’s 2023 Spring National Meeting.

Academy member Sam Gutterman presented on behalf of the Academy to the National Conference of Insurance Legislators’ (NCOIL) Spring Meeting in San Diego. He presented as part of NCOIL’s Special Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Series on an “Introduction to ESG and Environmental Aspects: An Actuarial Perspective.”

The Life Financial Reporting Committee released a white paper, FASB Long-Duration Targeted Improvements—A Discussion of Enhanced Disclosures, which focuses on certain considerations in implementing FASB’s required enhanced disclosures around LDTI.

Casualty Practice Council (CPC) Vice Chairperson Dee Dee Mays and Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (COPLFR) Chairperson Stephen Koca presented to the NAIC’s Casualty Actuarial and Statistical (C) Task Force (CASTF) on behalf of the CPC and COPLFR on recent publications and future work products expected for release in 2023.

The Life Practice Council, Health Practice Council, and Casualty Practice Council submitted a joint comment letter to the Colorado Division of Insurance on its recent exposure of a draft regulation on Governance and Risk Management Framework Requirements for Life Insurance Carriers’ Use of External Consumer Data and Information Sources, Algorithms, and Predictive Models: the first exposed implementation regulation for Colorado Revised Statute (C.R.S.) § 10-3-1104.9, signed into law on July 6, 2021.

The P/C Committee on Equity and Fairness released an issue brief that provides a survey of methods aimed at helping to identify and/or mitigate bias in rating for property and casualty lines.

The Health Practice Council’s Financial Reporting and Solvency Committee sent a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Long-Term Care Actuarial (B) Working Group inquiring if the Working Group might issue an accounting interpretation for the interaction between Actuarial Guideline LI (AG 51) and Appendix A-010.

The Life Reserves Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' (NAIC) LATF on the proposed changes to VM-20 outlined in APF 2023-03.

The C1 Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) VOS on the proposed methodology for collateralized loan obligations (CLOs).

The Life Practice Council and the Casualty Practice Council submitted a joint comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioner’s Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (H) Working Group on its Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Model and Data Regulatory Questions Exposure.

The Public Plans Committee published a practice note detailing considerations for working with public defined benefit pension plans that use fixed rate funding.

The Health Solvency Subcommittee sent a comment letter responding to a request from the NAIC’s Health Risk-Based Capital (E) Working Group to provide additional investment return scenarios within the subcommittee’s summary of the Investment Income Adjusted Health H2 Experience Fluctuation Risk Factors.

The C1 Work Group submitted a comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) RBCIRE WG to follow up on their presentation on collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) given to the RBCIRE WG at the NAIC’s Fall 2022 National Meeting.

The Health Practice Council’s Individual and Small Group Markets Committee and Risk Sharing Subcommittee submitted a comment letter to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed rule for the 2024 Notice of Benefit and Payment Parameters (NBPP).

The Climate Change Joint Task Force sent a letter to the U.S. Global Change Research Program regarding the draft of the Fifth National Climate Assessment. The letter provided insights from the task force on climate trends, including a discussion on the Actuaries Climate Index—co-sponsored-by the Academy—and discussed health impacts from climate and climate related financial disclosures.

The C2 Mortality Work Group submitted a presentation to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) LRBCWG on their the working group’s proposal for life C-2 structural and instruction updates and a new financial statement note.

The latest update to the Committee on Cyber Risk’s Cyber Risk Toolkit includes a revised section on ransomware. The toolkit, released originally in 2021, is updated regularly with the latest information on cyber risk and cybersecurity-related developments.