The Climate Change Joint Committee released an issue paper, Climatic Events, Inequities, and Risk Mitigation. The paper focuses on the cause-and-effect relationship that different climatic events have on different U.S. populations and communities that disproportionately experience the effects of climate change. (July 26, 2024)
The Long-Term Care (LTC) Committee submitted comments to the NAIC’s Long-Term Care Actuarial (B) Working Group (LTCAWG) in response to LTCAWG's July 2 request for comments on the Minnesota approach. (July 23, 2024)
The Social Security Committee released an issue brief, An Actuarial Perspective on the 2024 Social Security Trustees Report. This detailed brief provides perspective on the latest detailed annual assessment by the federal government of the program’s solvency. (July 22, 2024)
The Life Underwriting and Risk Classification Subcommittee commented to the Colorado Division of Insurance on the ACLI draft proposed quantitative testing regulation, Concerning Quantitative Testing of External Consumer Data and Information Sources, Algorithms, and Predictive Models Used for Life Insurance Underwriting for Unfairly Discriminatory Outcomes. (July 12, 2024)
The Retirement Practice Council’s Social Security and Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation committees sent a joint comment letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions regarding portable benefits for self-employed workers and other individuals in nontraditional working arrangements. (July 03, 2024)
The P/C Committee on Equity and Fairness sent a comment letter to the District of Columbia Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) on the DISB’s recently released draft market conduct study, Evaluating Unintentional Bias in Private Passenger Automobile Insurance. (June 28, 2024)
In recent years, the Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) approved a number of proposals to revise actuarial standards of practice (ASOPs). Now, after countless hours of dedicated work by the task forces, committees, and the ASB itself—and valuable input from many of you—final versions of these ASOPs are emerging. During the past few months, the ASB has adopted five revised ASOPs—here’s a look at them. (June 28, 2024)
The Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation Committee released a policy paper, Improving Retirement Outcomes: Demographic Considerations, which discusses retirement inequities and how current retirement plan design elements and policies may inadvertently disadvantage certain cohorts of individuals. In tandem with the paper, the committee released a high-level executive summary. (June 27, 2024)
The Health Equity Committee presented at the 2024 SOA Health Meeting on “Improving Data Analysis Using a Health Equity Lens.” The session explored the intersection of health equity and data, including stakeholder perspectives and a Medicaid-focused case study. (June 24, 2024)
The Health Practice Council’s Active Benefits Committee and Individual and Small Group Markets Committee responded to the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions’ (HELP) request for information regarding portable benefits for self-employed workers and other individuals in nontraditional working arrangements. (June 24, 2024)
Members of the Climate Change Joint Committee presented at the SOA Health Conference. The session explored various climate equity-related considerations for actuaries, including an introduction to the range of equity issues that climate change and the increasing frequency of climatic events may pose to actuaries. (June 26, 2024)
The Prudential Regulation Committee submitted comments to the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) on its public consultation on climate risk supervisory guidance – ICP guidance and supporting material. (June 19, 2024)
The actuarial organizations’ collaborative Intersector Group released notes of its April 2024 virtual meetings with the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation and Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service. (June 18, 2024)
The Academy's C1 Subcommittee provided comments to the NAIC's Risk-Based Capital Investment Risk and Evaluation (E) Working Group on the exposed interim residual tranche proposal by Everlake Life Insurance Company. (June 13, 2024)
The Casualty Practice Council submitted comments on the exposure draft of Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP) No. 7, Analysis of Life, Health, or Property/Casualty Insurance Cash Flow Risk. (May 31, 2024)
