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  • rethinking-fairness-life-ins

    Defining fairness for life insurance processes is complex and challenging as well as subjective. This webcast will be a discussion of the challenges and opportunities presented as our profession ...

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    • Authors: Hezhong Ma, Bruce A Friedland, Lisa Schilling
    • Date: May 2024
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • Interested in Being Interest- Sensitive?

    Interested in Being Interest- Sensitive? Both claim inflation rate and yield drive the loss ratio projection of long term care insurance (LTCi). The effects depends on whether a policy has ...

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    • Authors: Hezhong Ma
    • Date: Dec 2014
    • Publication Name: Long-Term Care News
  • Report on the Conversion Experience Study for Level Premium Term Plans

    Report on the Conversion Experience Study for Level Premium Term Plans The purpose of this endeavor was to undertake a research project on term conversion experience with a particular focus on ...

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    • Authors: Lindsay Meisinger, Hezhong Ma, Donna Christine Megregian, Kyle Proebsting
    • Date: Jun 2016
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Life Insurance
  • 2023-emerging-current-tech

    Leveraging the research papers "Emerging Technologies and their Impact on Actuarial Science and Top Actuarial Technologies," the presenters of this session will highlight current and ...

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    • Authors: Arthur DaSilva, Marianne C Purushotham, Hezhong Ma
    • Date: Apr 2024
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Topics: Technology & Applications; FinTech & InsurTech
  • Term Conversions – Pricing and Reserves

    Term Conversions – Pricing and Reserves A method to price a term life policy to properly reflect the post conversion experience. Also reserving methods, in both the term and perm products. term ...

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    • Authors: Hezhong Ma
    • Date: Mar 2017
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Term life; Life Insurance>Whole life
  • Term Conversions: Pricing and Reserves

    Term Conversions: Pricing and Reserves The article illustrates a method to price a term life policy to properly reflect the post conversion experience. The article also suggested a reserving ...

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    • Authors: Hezhong Ma
    • Date: Mar 2017
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Product Matters!
  • An Actuary’s Perspective: Unlocking the Power of Structured Underwriting Data

    An Actuary’s Perspective: Unlocking the Power of Structured Underwriting Data Artificial intelligence (AI) at the heart of new digital tools allows actuaries to extract structured data useful for ...

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    • Authors: Hezhong Ma
    • Date: Dec 2024
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Reinsurance News
    • Topics: Reinsurance>Product development - Reinsurance; FinTech & InsurTech>Underwriting - FinTech & InsurTech
  • 2025-mining-gold

    The use of data to assess risk is not new to the life insurance industry, but has historically been limited to leveraging structured data. Join us as we discuss the next frontier: unstructured ...

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    • Authors: John Myslinski, Hezhong Ma, Jacqueline Waas
    • Date: Nov 2024
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Topics: Predictive Analytics; Technology & Applications
  • Substitute One Mis-impression

    Substitute One Mis-impression The authors take a deeper look at the long-standing motto of the Society of Actuaries, from John Ruskin, “The work of science is to substitute facts for appearances ...

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    • Authors: David Snell, Hezhong Ma
    • Date: Nov 2012
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
    • Publication Name: Actuary of the Future
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Pensions & Retirement>Risk management