2023 Annual Call for Volunteers: Volunteer Opportunities
Open from July 31 to September 6
Have questions? Make sure to view the recording of the information session or download the slides to learn more about the survey and volunteering with the Academy.
- Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) Committees
- Presidential Committees
- Casualty Practice Council
- Health Practice Council
- Life Practice Council
- Pension Practice Council
- Council on Professionalism and Education
- Risk Management and Financial Reporting Council
- Short-Term/Micro-Volunteer Opportunities
Actuarial Standards Board (ASB) Committees
An ASB committee volunteer would be appointed for a three-year term and may serve up to two consecutive terms.
- Casualty Committee-ASB (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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In accordance with the procedures of the ASB, this committee develops actuarial standards of practice that apply to actuaries in the property/casualty area.
Time Commitment: The committee meets monthly on average via teleconference, but meets more often when reviewing a standard, usually weekly.
Travel: Minimal travel; not more than once a year, if at all.
Skills/Experience: Committee members should be knowledgeable about current property/casualty actuarial practice, emerging practice issues, and understand the guidance that property/casualty actuaries need.
- Enterprise Risk Management Committee-ASB
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In accordance with the procedures of the ASB, this committee develops actuarial standards of practice that apply to actuaries in the enterprise risk management area.
Time Commitment: The committee meets quarterly on average via teleconference, but usually meets weekly when drafting or revising a standard.
Travel: Minimal travel; not more than once a year, if at all.
Skills/Experience: Committee members should be knowledgeable about current enterprise risk management actuarial practice, emerging practice issues, and understand the guidance that actuaries working in enterprise risk management need.
- General Committee-ASB (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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In accordance with the procedures of the ASB, this committee develops actuarial standards of practice that apply to actuaries in all practice areas.
Time Commitment: The committee meets quarterly on average via teleconference, but can meet more often when reviewing a standard. Teleconference calls when reviewing a standard can range from two to four hours.
Travel: Minimal travel; not more than once a year, if at all.
Skills/Experience: Committee members should be knowledgeable about current actuarial practice in their particular area, emerging practice issues, and understand the guidance that actuaries in their particular area of practice need.
- Health Committee-ASB (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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In accordance with the procedures of the ASB, this committee develops actuarial standards of practice that apply to actuaries in the health insurance area.
Time Commitment: The committee meets quarterly on average via teleconference, but can meet more often when reviewing a standard. Teleconference calls when reviewing a standard can range from two to four hours.
Travel: Minimal travel; not more than once a year, if at all.
Skills/Experience: Committee members should be knowledgeable about current health actuarial practice, emerging practice issues, and understand the guidance that health actuaries need.
- Life Committee-ASB (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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In accordance with the procedures of the ASB, this committee updates and develops actuarial standards of practice that apply to actuaries in the life insurance area.
Time Commitment: The committee meets monthly on average via teleconference, but usually meets weekly when reviewing a standard.
Travel: Minimal travel; not more than once a year, if at all.
Skills/Experience: Committee members should be knowledgeable about current life and annuity actuarial practice, emerging practice issues, and understand the guidance that life actuaries need.
- Pension Committee-ASB (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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In accordance with procedures of the ASB, this committee develops actuarial standards of practice in the pension area.
Time Commitment: The committee meets in person quarterly, but can meet more often via teleconference when reviewing a standard. Teleconference calls when reviewing a standard can range from two to four hours.
Travel: Quarterly two-day meetings at the Academy office in Washington, DC.
Skills/Experience: Committee members should be knowledgeable about current pension actuarial practice, emerging practice issues, and understand the guidance that pension actuaries need.
Presidential Committees
- Committee on Membership
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This committee is responsible for ongoing relations with existing and prospective Academy members. It periodically reviews Academy membership and dues policies and recommends changes to the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. In fulfilling its charges, the committee is to ensure that member affiliations and new-member recruitment activities are included as a vital part of the Academy communications plan.
- Research Committee
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The Research Committee is a cross-practice committee that oversees the Academy’s research functions. Specifically, the Committee:
- Formulates guidelines, policies and rules for the conduct of the Academy in engaging in research initiatives, including the process by which practice council-initiated and -directed public policy research initiatives will be proposed, and the selection and approval process for research projects.
- Develops and oversees policies for research with respect to mortality, morbidity, and industry experience studies in conjunction with relevant research bodies to facilitate public policy application of those studies.
- Develops protocols for joint ventures with external research partners.
- Develops and oversees application of protocol for priority-setting for research projects.
- Manages the annual Academy Award for Research.
- Recommends annually appropriate budget requests for research initiatives and provides oversight of the research budget.
Time Commitment: 1 meeting quarterly, 1-2 work group meetings quarterly, review of documents for meetings.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Active involvement in practice council work, experience with project management, familiarity with some research methods.
Casualty Practice Council
- Automobile Insurance Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Automobile Insurance Committee provides actuarial support, advice, and communications on topics that involve automobile insurance. This includes seeking out additional audiences and topics to address so that the committee can coordinate and respond to issues at the state and federal levels. This committee also interfaces with the NAIC.
Time Commitment: Typically several one-hour teleconferences per year.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Need strong experience in personal or commercial auto insurance.
- Committee on Property and Liability Financial Reporting (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee monitors activities regarding financial reporting related to property and liability risks, reviews proposals made by various organizations affecting the actuarial aspects of financial reporting and auditing issues related to property and liability risks, and evaluates property and liability insurance and self-insurance accounting issues.
Time Commitment: 40 hours per year.
Travel: Quarterly meetings; locations are generally one meeting in the East, two meetings in Midwest, and fourth meeting coincident with location of CLRS.
Skills/Experience: Writers of SAOs preferred but not required. Experience with financial reporting issues a must. The committee tries to maintain a diverse mixture of actuaries, including regulators, consultants, and insurance company actuaries.
- Committee on Cyber Risk (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Committee on Cyber Risk is looking at actuarial aspects of cyber risks. Specifically, it is focused on named and excluded perils and on latent exposures in both commercial and personal lines. Generally, the committee is not looking at enterprise risk to insurers themselves.
Time Commitment: 10 hours per year.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: This is a relatively new field. Membership on the committee requires an interest in emerging risks and a curiosity about complex relationships.
- Medical Professional Liability Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Medical Professional Liability Committee proactively provides unbiased information, actuarial support, educational training, and perspective on medical professional liability issues. Its activities include seeking out new audiences, investigating current trends, and researching tort reform proposals so that the committee can coordinate and respond to actuarial issues as they arise at the state and federal levels. This committee actively interfaces with the NAIC, NCOIL, and others.
Time Commitment: The committee meets by conference call several times per year.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Direct experience with medical professional liability and familiarity with relevant current events.
- P/C Extreme Events and Property Lines Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee identifies possible extreme events (low-frequency/high-severity events that could generate extremely large property/casualty losses). The committee also identifies issues relevant to the treatment of such risks including sizing, insurability, pricing, funding, reserving, capital management, and loss mitigation. Included in the committee's charge is monitoring of federal and state catastrophe legislation and interaction with the NAIC on these issues.
Time Commitment: Varies depending on current project list. Issue-specific work groups sometimes are formed and members of such a group may have an intense work period until a product is finalized. More often than not, though, the time commitment may be very small. The committee meets in several conference calls each year.
Travel: Selected members may be asked to attend NAIC meetings. Occasional travel to Washington, D.C., is a possibility, depending on legislative activity.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge or experience regarding catastrophe ratemaking, reserving, modeling, and portfolio management is desirable. Familiarity and experience applying ASOP Nos. 38 and 39 would be a good measure of the skill level needed.
- ACI/ACRI Work Group (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Actuaries Climate Index (ACI) is intended to provide a useful monitoring tool—an objective indicator of the frequency of extreme weather and the extent of sea level change. The Actuaries Climate Risk Index (ACRI) measures retrospectively the risk experienced by the U.S. and Canada (and subdivisions within) due to climate-related natural hazards. The ACI/ACRI Work Group provides guidance for the Academy’s collaborative efforts with three other actuarial associations as we work to revise the current indices. The work group also oversees the production of research papers on associated topics.
Time Commitment: 10-15 hours per year.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge or experience working with climate data analysis.
- P/C Committee on Equity and Fairness (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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To provide independent actuarial perspective on property and casualty equity and fairness topics and to inform public policy makers on property and casualty practices that could potentially disadvantage people of color and/or other people in marginalized groups.
- Provide key actuarial considerations regarding laws and regulations under consideration.
- Provide key actuarial considerations regarding proposals from industry groups and consumer groups to assist regulators and legislators in their decisions.
- Consider and provide objective perspective on potential solutions to concerns associated with the use of external data, complex models, and outputs from actuarial models.
Time Commitment: 30-40 hours per year. The committee meets via teleconference every other week for an hour. Volunteers are also divided into subgroups that meet sporadically and report on their findings to the larger group.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge and experience in diversity, equity and inclusion issues and how they relate to property and casualty insurance.
- Property and Casualty Risk-Based Capital Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee works on Risk-Based Capital (RBC) and related solvency management tools. It monitors the performance of, and suggests enhancement to, the RBC methodology used by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). The committee is involved in a review of the current RBC approach and ways to improve it in the context of the Solvency Modernization Initiative. Some of the committee work is done at the request of the NAIC; there is significant interaction between the committee and the NAIC's Property Risk-Based Capital Working Group. The committee provides actuarial input on all RBC and solvency issues and ensures its communication to all relevant audiences.
Time Commitment: 10-20 hours per year. The committee meets by teleconference several times a year. Members are asked to volunteer to work on specific projects, with each project requiring a commitment for a short period of time.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: General familiarity with risk-based insurance and related issues.
- Workers’ Compensation Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Workers' Compensation Committee proactively provides actuarial support and perspective on topics that involve workers' compensation insurance. Its efforts include seeking out new audiences and identifying current trends and topics of interest so that the committee can coordinate and respond to actuarial issues as they arise at the state and federal levels. This committee actively interfaces with the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, International Association of Industrial Accident Boards and Commissions, and National Conference of Insurance Legislators, among other organizations.
Time Commitment: 10-25 hours per year, depending on active projects. When these arise, there are usually teleconference discussions and group work products to draft and review.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Familiarity with ongoing workers’ compensation issues. Current work with workers’ compensation line is a big plus.
Health Practice Council
- Individual and Small Group Markets Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Individual and Small Group Markets Committee furthers the actuarial profession’s involvement in policy issues related to both the small group and individual medical markets. The committee monitors federal legislation and regulatory activities and is charged with developing background papers intended to inform and educate senior federal policymakers on issues related to the small group and individual markets.
Time Commitment: Volunteers must be willing to take an active role in helping draft policy statements, participating on conference calls, and contributing to written work products released by the Academy. The work group may have a call once a month on average. However, if there is a time sensitive issue, like proposed federal regulations that provide for a specified number of days for comment (e.g. 60 days), then the commitment would be more intense during that period.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Must have experience working with either the individual and/or small group medical markets.
- Medicare Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee provides an oversight role for task forces and work groups established to address Medicare reform initiatives on behalf of the Health Practice Council.
Time Commitment: About 20 hours during the year spent on conference calls and drafting.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: A good knowledge of Medicare, but actuaries who want to learn more about Medicare are also welcome.
- Medicaid Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee is charged with monitoring and responding to changes to the Medicaid and CHIP programs and recommending program improvements.
Time Commitment: 15-25 hours per year. The work group meets periodically, but time outside of the meetings for drafting and review of documents is important.
Travel: Minimal to zero.
Skills/Experience: Experience and expertise in Medicaid and CHIP. Strong written and verbal skills.
- Health Care Delivery Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Health Care Delivery Committee seeks to understand:
- Components of health care costs and cost increases with a focus on the delivery system in particular,
- The impact of proposed regulation and legislation that directly impacts the delivery system,
- Current and emerging forces that are driving change in the delivery system.
The committee engages with policymakers in a neutral and informative manner to promote the sustainability of the system while addressing significant cost drivers.
Time Commitment: Monthly calls and interim document review. More frequent calls for committee-designated work groups to develop specific work product.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge of payment and delivery system reforms in both the public and private markets; research base/experience in population health interventions, wellness initiatives, payment reforms/alternate payment methods, and delivery system reforms; and experience evaluating transition of reforms between the public and private markets.
- Health Equity Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Health Equity Committee furthers the actuarial profession's commitment to health equity throughout the health care system. The committee examines actuarial practices and methods to assess the extent to which they may affect health disparities and recommends changes when appropriate, identifies areas in which actuarial methods can contribute to improving health equity, educates actuaries and other stakeholders on health equity issues, and applies an equity lens to the Academy’s health policy work.
Time Commitment: Monthly calls – periodic calls of committee-designated subgroups for specific workstreams.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Health actuary with at least one of the following areas of expertise: big data, algorithms, AI, Medicare Advantage, provider contracting, risk adjustment, pricing/benefit design, experience doing literature searches and original research.
- Financial Reporting and Solvency Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee monitors financial reporting activities related to all areas of the health actuarial practice, reviews proposals made by various organizations affecting the accounting and auditing issues related to health practice, and generally is responsible for analysis and recommendations on health practice accounting issues. The committee has primary responsibility in the creation and updating of all health practice notes. Acting as the primary point of collaboration with the Risk Management and Financial Reporting Council, the committee works in conjunction with the Health Practice International Task Force in monitoring international issues with U.S. health care implications.
Time Commitment: Bimonthly.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge of health financial reporting issues.
- Health Solvency Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Health Solvency Subcommittee analyzes solvency issues at the state level, including the NAIC risk-based capital formulas, emerging NAIC principle-based requirements, and individual state rules. In addition, the work group follows emerging international requirements and federal regulation of insurance companies, in relation to what effect they have on solvency requirements.
Time Commitment: Monthly or bimonthly – periodic calls of committee-designated work groups for specific workstreams.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge of health solvency and health RBC issues.
- Health Care Receivables Factors Work Group (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The work group is completing a review of the current health care receivables factors for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
Time Commitment: Driven by NAIC requests, conference calls have typically been periodic, but there is a significant data analysis work component to work group involvement.
Travel: Some work group members have used NAIC meetings to discuss our work with regulators.
Skills/Experience: Interest in and familiarity with the health statutory statement (Orange Blank). Health care receivables data is on Exhibit 3, Exhibit 3A, and the Underwriting and Investments Exhibit Part 2B.
- Stop-Loss Factors Work Group (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This work group is charged with updating a 1994 report to the NAIC on stop-loss factors.
Time Commitment: Little or no involvement in 2023. Calls and development of analysis/comment for NAIC on an as-needed and periodic basis expected to begin in Q2, 2024.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Familiarity with health risk-based capital and either employer stop-loss or reinsurance.
- Health Underwriting Risk Factors Analysis Work Group (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This Work Group will restructure the underwriting risk pages within the RBC formula and analyze historical health industry-wide underwriting results to develop new risk factors.
Time Commitment: Approximately 2-8 hours/week for the next 6 months.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: RBC Formula experience and/or data analysis
- LTC Medicaid Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This subcommittee looks at issues pertaining to Medicaid long-term care/long-term services and supports. It also coordinates with the Medicaid Subcommittee and the Long-Term Care/Disability Committee to examine the intersection of Medicaid and commercial long-term care insurance.
Time Commitment: 10-20 hours per year. The work group meets periodically; some time outside of the meetings for reviewing and/or drafting documents may also be needed.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Interest in and familiarity with Medicaid long-term care/long-term services and supports issues. The LTC Medicaid Subcommittee coordinates a significant portion of its work with the Medicaid Committee, thus it is helpful to have some members of this subcommittee simultaneously sit on the Medicaid Committee. The subcommittee also needs members who have familiarity with commercial long-term care insurance to facilitate its work.
- LTC Reform Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This subcommittee addresses actuarial issues affecting long-term care plans. It monitors and comments on developments in this area at the federal level and state level and works with policymakers to assist in developing public policies in connection with long-term care insurance policies.
Time Commitment: Up to four to eight hours per month.
Travel: Minimal travel. Most work is done by phone.
Skills/Experience: High-level expertise in various aspects of LTCI.
- Active Benefits Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Active Benefits Committee furthers the actuarial profession's involvement in policy issues specific to group benefit plans, with a particular focus on health care benefit plans for active employees. The committee monitors federal legislation and regulatory activities and is charged with supporting senior federal policymakers on issues related to active employee group health plans. This support often includes ad hoc virtual meetings with Academy, agency or policy staff, and may include developing background papers.
Time Commitment: From 20-60 hours a year. The time commitment varies depending on issues. When working on a specific project, volunteers would be expected to actively participate in calls (which could average once a month) and small work groups.
Travel: Optional in-person meeting once a year.
Skills/Experience: Must have extensive experience working with active employee group health plan issues.
- Retiree Benefits Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee’s mission is to bring to the public (the U.S. actuarial profession’s expertise) regarding employer-sponsored group benefit plans, with particular focus on health care benefit plans for retirees. Within the scope of this mission, this committee:
- Serves as a resource to both the Health and Pension Practice Councils
- Provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of retiree health plans with respect to:
- Funding
- Financial reporting, in conjunction with Pension Accounting Committee
- Managing financial risks
- Plan design
- Identifies emerging issues and monitors legislative and regulatory proposals affecting group benefit plans.
- Coordinates with other Academy committees where appropriate on issues with overlapping interests.
- Develops practice notes for the membership.
- Comments on actuarial standards of practice related to retiree health plans.
Time Commitment: From 20-80 hours a year. The time commitment varies depending on issues; there may be close review of several ASOPs and consideration of practice notes related to recent ASOPs, accounting standards, or legislative/regulatory changes. When working on a specific project, volunteers would be expected to actively participate in calls and small work groups.
Travel: Optional in-person meeting once a year or more.
Skills/Experience: Must have extensive experience working with retiree health issues from either the pension or health perspective.
- Pre-Funding for Public OPEB Plans Practice Note Task Force (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Pre-Funding for Public Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB) Plans Practice Note Task Force will develop a practice note to provide an overview of funding arrangements for public sector retiree benefit programs. This will include:
- addressing the identification and treatment of cash flow options between the funding vehicle, the employer, the members, intermediaries and the providers;
- exploring the funded status implications for compliance and interaction with the Government Accounting Standards Board (GASB), Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and insuring vendors;
- addressing risk management considerations of benefit payouts and reinsurance contracts with respect to the funding arrangement; and
- addressing funding policy and actuarial assumption considerations driven by whether public sector retiree benefit programs are pre-funded, partially pre-funded, split-funded or pay-as-you-go.
Time Commitment: Task Force meets bi-weekly via Zoom for one hour to develop practice note, with an estimated completion date of the end of 2023.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Must have extensive experience with valuations and consulting for pre-funded OPEB plans in the public sector, working with retiree health issues from either the pension or health perspective, notably OPEB.
- Behavioral Health Task Force (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Behavioral Health Task Force charge is to formalize the ongoing ad-hoc efforts within the Health Practice Council around behavioral health issues. The task force will engage in activities that help inform the actuarial community on public policy issues related to behavioral health. These activities may include the creation of issue briefs, webinars, and other presentations.
Time Commitment: 2 hours a month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: We welcome volunteers with experience working in areas related to behavioral health in industry, public policy and academia; as well as volunteers that may not have deep experience in behavioral health but have a strong interest in contributing to the topic.
Life Practice Council
- Economic Scenario Generator Task Force (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Economic Scenario Generator Task Force provides the technical guidance in the development and maintenance of the economic scenario generators, including those used for regulatory requirements.
Time Commitment: 3-4 hours per week.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience using ESGs in actuarial practice.
- Life Investment and Capital Adequacy Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Life Investment and Capital Adequacy Committee (LICAC) analyzes issues related to life and annuity capital adequacy and recommends methods to improve life risk-based capital requirements. The LICAC is a technical adviser on solvency issues to the NAIC.
Time Commitment: 1-hour calls a couple of times a month, plus any time spent gathering data/analysis for discussion.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Background with RBC framework for life insurance. Any specific experience with correlation of risks or existing approach to C-3 market risks.
- C1 Subcommittee
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The C1 Subcommittee reviews capital requirements for the investment risks of life insurance companies, as contained in the Life RBC formula. The Subcommittee reviews all aspects of the C1 component, including assumptions, methodologies and consistency of risk measures. The subcommittee will recommend revisions as appropriate, which may include RBC factor updates, NAIC bond designations, and use of alternative methods of capital determination for specific asset classes. The subcommittee also provides technical guidance to the NAIC regarding risks related to collateralized loan obligations and other complex assets.
Time Commitment: We hold a monthly 1-hour call but will hold more frequent calls when we are writing comment letters or preparing reports and would like members to participate in the drafting process.
Travel: No travel is required, although attendance at NAIC meetings is encouraged.
Skills/Experience: Familiarity with the RBC framework and with life insurance investment portfolios.
- C2 Subcommittee
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The C2 Subcommittee reviews the current NAIC risk-based capital requirements for mortality and longevity risk. The focus of the group is on mortality and longevity including but not limited to to volatility, level, trend, and catastrophe.
Time Commitment: 2 hours per month conference calls plus prep time in reviewing materials; Also expect contributing to work in area of expertise.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Strong background in individual and/or group life insurance mortality modeling.
- LPC Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The LPC Diversity Equity, and Inclusion Task Force explores a range of issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in the life insurance industry.
Time Commitment: Weekly one-hour meetings, plus additional time for individual research and discussion preparation.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Familiarity with current life insurance practices; passion for working with diverse groups; ability to consider different perspectives and communicate with respect; willingness to challenge the status quo.
- Life Experience Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Life Experience Committee is responsible for experience studies, assumptions, and related elements, including mortality, policyholder behavior, and expense assumptions. The committee writes papers with regard to these topics and reviews research from external organizations as applicable, including research on topics such as inflation, margins, and credibility with respect to the work of actuaries in modeling and more comprehensive papers on subjects such as the modeling of guaranteed living benefits in annuities. In addition, the Life Experience Committee is responsible for working with the Society of Actuaries, regarding experience studies and addressing NAIC amendments related to life actuarial assumption development and experience studies.
Skills/Experience: We have volunteers who range from relative newbies (who are very valuable in letting the group know where they would like help in modeling or other activities related to assumptions) to experts in the field (who help with drafting/editing the papers.) We sometimes have an Academy webinar on our paper.
Time Commitment: Meets biweekly as needed according to ongoing projects and deadlines driven by NAIC.
Travel: None.
- Life GAAP Reporting Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Life GAAP Reporting Committee proactively provides actuarial advice and communication on life insurance topics that involve financial reporting matters, with an emphasis on GAAP issues.
Time Commitment: 4-8 hours per month.
Travel: None required.
Skills/Experience: Strong GAAP and IFRS financial reporting experience for life insurance and/or annuities.
- Life Products Committee
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The Life Products Committee proactively provides actuarial support, advice, and communications on life and annuity products. The committee focuses on product features and their design, and may coordinate with other committees on financial and solvency issues. The committee communicates with, and provides information to, the membership of the Academy when there are actuarial developments of interest to the membership that warrant additional communications. The committee also stands ready to respond to regulatory requests on product issues, and proactively seeks areas where the Academy should provide input to regulators. The committee engages in the development of public policy at the state, federal, and international levels.
Time Commitment: 1 hour/month conference call plus periodic review and comment of committee work product.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Previous active membership in one or more Academy work groups; knowledge of current life and annuity product design, pricing, illustration, sales and/or management practices; familiarity with ongoing developments in regulations and actuarial standards.
- Index-Linked Variable Annuity Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Index-Linked Variable Annuity Subcommittee provides actuarial support, recommendations, and communication on activities that involve index-linked variable annuities, including the development of and revisions to actuarial guidelines, development of Interstate Insurance Product Regulation Commission (“Compact”) product standards, and related changes in actuarial practices.
Time Commitment: We meet every other week for an hour. Reviewing of materials before meetings is recommended.
Travel: None, all committee meetings virtual.
Skills/Experience: Pricing experience on variable or fixed indexed annuities. Understanding of the Standard Non-forfeiture regulations for different types of annuities.
- Life Underwriting and Risk Classification Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Life Underwriting and Risk Classification Subcommittee assesses the impact of underwriting and risk classification mandates in the life insurance and annuity marketplace. The subcommittee researches regulations, monitors industry practices, and advises on emerging topics.
Time Commitment: 2-5 hours per month, group meets every 2 weeks with additional meetings and outside work as needed.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge of life insurance underwriting, life and/or annuity product design, pricing; familiarity with ongoing developments in regulations and actuarial standards.
- Life Illustrations Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Life Illustrations Subcommittee provides commentary and educational materials involving actuarial issues related to life insurance products. The group maintains the Academy’s existing Life Insurance Illustrations practice note to reflect changes that have occurred since the previous practice note was published. The group monitors updates to Actuarial Standard of Practice #No.24, changes in generally accepted practices and regulations, and new product designs and features.
Time Commitment: Members are expected to regularly attend weekly phone calls as the group navigates issues surrounding compliance with the illustration model regulation.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Involved with illustration testing and/or compliance with the illustration model regulation.
- Non-Guaranteed Elements Subcommittee
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The Non-Guaranteed Elements Subcommittee provides commentary and educational materials involving actuarial issues related to the development and management of non-guaranteed elements in individual life insurance and annuity products. The Non-Guaranteed Elements Subcommittee is developing a practice note related to Actuarial Standards of Practice (ASOP) No.2. The subcommittee will monitor ASOPs (focusing on ASOP No.2), practice notes, white papers, study notes, and other publications. and will make recommendations regarding new or revised ASOPs, practice notes, regulations, actuarial guidelines, and educational materials.
Time Commitment: 1-2 hours every two weeks.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Familiarity setting rates for products with NGEs both new pricing and inforce management is helpful.
- Life Valuation Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Life Valuation Committee proactively seeks to provide actuarial support, advice, and communication on life insurance topics that involve the valuation of life insurance and annuity products. The committee addresses issues that involve the valuation of, and support for, the valuation of statutory reserves for these products.
Time Commitment: The Committee meets once per month for a 1-hour call. 2-3 hours of work per month is expected.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience with valuation and modeling.
- Variable Annuity Reserves and Capital Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Variable Annuity Reserve and Capital Subcommittee proactively provides actuarial support, advice, and communication on issues involving statutory reserve and risk-based capital requirements for variable annuity products. This includes developing proposals for ways in which the NAIC and the actuarial profession can better evaluate the overall effectiveness of the requirements and actuarial practices used in the implementation of the requirements. The subcommittee also communicates and provides information to the Life Practice Council regarding these issues.
Time Commitment: Varies, with a minimum of one to two hours per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Familiarity with variable annuity products and AG43/VM-21 and C-3 Phase 2 RBC requirements.
- Annuity Reserves and Capital Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Annuity Reserves and Capital Subcommittee is working with the NAIC to develop a proposal for a principle-based reserve and capital framework requirement for non-variable annuity products.
Time Commitment: Bi-weekly meetings with the possibility for more depending on regulatory developments.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: We would welcome new members with experience in principle-based reserves and non-variable annuities.
- Life and Health Valuation Law Manual Review Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This group conducts an annual peer review of the Life & Health Valuation Law Manual.
Time Commitment: 1 hour kick-off meeting in early November; 4-6 additional hours spent reviewing the manual from mid-November to early December.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Strong attention to detail and familiarity with valuation regulations and actuarial guidelines. Familiarity with ongoing developments in regulations and actuarial standards is helpful but not required.
- Life Reserves Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Life Reserves Subcommittee provides commentary and analysis related to reserve frameworks applicable to life insurance products, with a focus on principles-based reserving.
Time Commitment: Varies by the number of issues being considered, but includes two to four 1-hour meetings per month and active participation reviewing the implications of new developments and issues. Active participation is expected in activities such as developing comments on issues or proposing amendments to the Valuation Manual to address such issues.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Knowledge and experience sufficient to understand existing principles-based statutory valuation for directly written life insurance policies.
- PBR Implementation Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The PBR Implementation Subcommittee provides educational materials, such as webinars and practice notes, related to Valuation Manual requirements. The subcommittee is responsible for practice notes, white papers, study notes, and other educational materials related to principle-based modeling, model validation, model governance, assumption setting, and reporting of results. This group may also review actuarial standards of practice and make suggestions to the Actuarial Standards Board for further guidance.
Time Commitment: 1-2 hours per month with the possibility for more if involved in the development of educational materials.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Familiarity with at least one of VM-20, VM-21, or the proposed VM-22. Willingness to think strategically about membership needs related to education and guidance. Ability to contribute to knowledge base to address member needs.
- Tax Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Tax Committee educates and advises the Life Practice Council on federal income tax issues. The committee clarifies the potential tax implications of proposals and identifies and communicates constraints, options, and alternatives.
Time Commitment: Weekly one-hour conference call plus periodic review and comment of committee work product.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: None required, but familiarity with tax issues from either a valuation/financial reporting or product development perspective would be helpful.
- Asset Adequacy and Reinsurance Issues Task Force
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The Asset Adequacy and Reinsurance Issues Task Force (AARITF) will monitor current and emerging approaches related to the projection of risks and returns in asset adequacy testing for “complex assets” as defined in Actuarial Guideline (AG) 53, including assisting regulators as requested in evaluating AG 53 information. The AARITF will also assess current and emerging practices and evolving regulatory guidance related to offshore vehicles for reinsurance, including considerations for actuaries as they consider reserve adequacy for business that uses such offshore vehicles.
Time Commitment: Monthly one-hour calls plus periodic drafting and review of work product.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience with offshore reinsurance; experience with asset adequacy testing issues related to complex assets and AG 53.
- LPC Investment Analysis Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This new subcommittee will monitor investment trends for the life insurance industry to assess actuarial implications. The Subcommittee will monitor certain regulatory groups (e.g., NAIC Valuation of Securities Task Force, Statutory Accounting Principles Working Group, Risk-Based Capital Investment Risk Evaluation Working Group, Life Actuarial Task Force) for regulatory developments affecting the investment activities of life insurers. The Subcommittee will coordinate comments to actuarial-related investment regulatory matters either directly or by coordinating with other LPC committees as necessary.
Time Commitment: Likely 4-6 hours per month on calls and associated work.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience with investments, evaluation of asset classes, investment risks, modeling cash flows. Good understanding of market economics and constraints affecting asset allocation for life insurers statutory reporting/valuation, investment laws, valuation and capital requirements.
Pension Practice Council
- Multiemployer Plans Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The committee's purpose is to bring expertise regarding multiemployer pension plans to the public and the United States actuarial profession. Within the scope of this mission, the committee:
- Provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders (such as legislators, contributing employers, trustees) of multiemployer plans with respect to:
- Funding
- Financial reporting
- Managing financial risks
- Plan design
- Maintains contact with federal regulatory agencies to offer advice and seek action on current issues; monitors state regulatory agencies.
- Develops practice notes for the membership.
- Comments on actuarial standards of practice related to multiemployer plans.
Time Commitment: Varies, but active participation in calls, webcasts, projects, and research assignments is expected.
Travel: Occasional meetings in Washington D.C., with federal agencies; remote participation is sometimes possible.
Skills/Experience: A solid understanding of and experience with the multiemployer pension plan environment, from both a technical/actuarial and consulting standpoint. Consulting experience needed includes first-hand knowledge of stakeholder interests - employers, unions, participants, regulatory agencies, financial statement users and government policymakers.
- Provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders (such as legislators, contributing employers, trustees) of multiemployer plans with respect to:
- Pension Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The committee's purpose is to bring to the public and the United States actuarial profession expertise regarding public and private retirement plans. Within the scope of this mission, the committee:
- Provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of public and private retirement plans with respect to:
- Funding
- Financial reporting
- Managing financial risks
- Plan design
- Actively consults with public policymakers about the effects of legislation and regulations on retirement benefits.
- Identifies emerging issues affecting retirement benefit plans.
- Comments on pending retirement legislation and regulations.
- Coordinates with other Academy committees where appropriate on issues with overlapping interests.
- Develops practice notes for the membership.
- Comments on actuarial standards of practice related to public and private plans.
Time Commitment: Monthly conference calls and additional involvement in projects throughout the year. 75-100 hours a year.
Travel: Attendance at two meetings/year (at least). Various locations.
Skills/Experience: Minimum of 10 years.
- Provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of public and private retirement plans with respect to:
- Defined Contribution Subcommittee of Pension Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Defined Contribution Subcommittee provides actuarial expertise and objective analysis regarding the use of defined contribution retirement plans as a means of delivering employee retirement benefits by:
- Providing independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of defined contribution retirement plans regarding:
- Designing plan provisions and features to improve retirement outcomes
- Using defined contribution retirement benefits to provide retirement income, including lifetime income
- Consulting with public policymakers about the effects of current legislation and regulatory guidance on defined contribution retirement benefit plans
- Identifying emerging issues affecting defined contribution retirement benefit plans
- Commenting on pending defined contribution retirement plan legislation and regulatory guidance
- Developing issue briefs, practice notes, and other educational material for the membership
Time Commitment: Recurring monthly calls plus time on specific projects. Actual time commitment will vary depending on the project.
Travel: None required.
Skills/Experience: Experience working with lifetime income products in the defined contribution space and/or expertise on participant or plan administrator perspectives.
- Providing independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of defined contribution retirement plans regarding:
- Public Plans Committee
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The committee's purpose is to bring to the public and the United States actuarial profession expertise regarding retirement plans for state and local government employees. Within the scope of this mission, the committee:
- Provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of state and local government employee benefit plans with respect to:
- Funding
- Financial reporting
- Managing financial risks
- Plan design
- Emerging events
- Other related topics
- Develops issue briefs and practice notes for the membership.
- Comments on actuarial standards of practice related to public plans.
Time Commitment: Monthly calls plus time on specific projects. The actual time commitment varies in intensity depending on the project.
Travel: None required.
Skills/Experience: Experience providing actuarial services to retirement plans for state and local government employees, and a commitment to being an active member of the committee.
- Provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of state and local government employee benefit plans with respect to:
- Retirement Policy and Design Evaluation Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The committee evaluates various facets of the U.S. retirement system, providing comments or analysis on potential changes to enhance the design and delivery of retirement benefits. The committee may assess retirement system designs with respect to the established Retirement for the AGES framework (Alignment, Governance, Efficiency, and Sustainability).
Time Commitment: 100 hours per year.
Travel: Very little. A number of members are either retired, self-employed or work for the government so face-to-face meetings are not usually held.
Skills/Experience: Prefer members who have some experience/interest in the retirement systems and policies in the U.S. and elsewhere.
- Social Security Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The committee's purpose is to bring to the public and the United States actuarial profession expertise regarding the United States social insurance systems with a principal focus on Social Security. Within the scope of this mission, the committee provides independent and objective analysis, advice, and education to stakeholders of social insurance programs with respect to financing, annual reporting, managing system risks, and program design.
Time Commitment: The committee desires members able to volunteer up to 10 days (including up to 4 one-day meetings and several hour-long remote meetings per year to committee activities. Members who are willing to write/co-write or review projects related to Social Security suggested by themselves or by another committee member might incur a substantial additional time commitment.
Travel: Plan for up to four one-day meetings in Washington D.C., Remote attendance is presently available, but not preferred.
Skills/Experience: An interest in social insurance systems is required and expertise is desirable. A particular interest in US Social Security and a willingness to learn and share your perspective are required.
Council on Professionalism and Education
- Committee on Professional Responsibility (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This Committee promotes knowledge of professionalism within the profession. When it seeks to promote the knowledge of standards of conduct, qualification, and practice, the committee shall do so in coordination with the responsible Academy bodies.
Time Commitment: Generally, one-hour call per month with additional task force or sub-group work needed related to the development of discussion papers. Time to read and review papers in preparation for calls is also required with additional time dedicated to drafting and/or updating discussion papers in sub-groups.
Travel: Limited travel if any—most work is accomplished via conference call. The chair attends three Council on Professionalism and Education meetings and two Actuarial Professionalism Liaison Committee meetings per year.
Skills/Experience: Prior experience and knowledge of standards of conduct, qualification, and practice. Commitment to upholding and advancing the profession’s image and responsibilities of the profession. Excellent written communication skills.
- Committee on Qualifications (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee investigates issues arising with respect to the minimum requirements necessary to qualify members to perform publicly required actuarial functions. It recommends to the Board of Directors minimum qualification standards, including continuing education requirements for such members, and counsels members on questions relating to individual qualifications. It also develops guidelines for the administration of the Academy qualification standards, including continuing education requirements.
For the U.S. Qualification Standards and related information please click here.Time Commitment: Generally one hour per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Deep knowledge of the U.S. Qualification Standards and commitment to upholding and advancing actuarial professionalism.
- Committee on Education
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The Committee’s charge is to support: a. The Academy’s future educational efforts including the creation and development of any necessary education; and b. The Academy’s staff and its directors of professionalism and public policy in monitoring the quality and consistency of the Academy’s education programs by reviewing survey results for both recurring educational programs and public policy / professionalism webinars across all offerings.
Time Commitment: Generally one hour per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Deep knowledge of actuarial professionalism (Code, ASOPs, USQS), experience creating actuarial educational material.
- Myers Task Force (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Myers Task Force convenes once each year to consider nominations for the Robert J. Myers Public Service Award, which honors an actuary for a single noteworthy public service achievement or a career devoted to public service. The Myers Task Force recommends an awardee to the Academy Board each year.
Time Commitment: 5-10 hours in June and July each year.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Must be a public service actuary, that is, a government employee, the employee of an organization whose primary focus is government work, or an unpaid volunteer working at a philanthropic organization.
Risk Management and Financial Reporting Council
- Behavioral Economics Work Group (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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To assist actuarial professionals to recognize and ethically integrate behavioral economics in the insurance industry in a manner that benefits both policyholders and insurance companies.
Time Commitment: The group meets once a month on an hour long conference call. One to two hours additional on work product drafting per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience with or interest in analyzing means to influence human behaviors, and areas within insurance pricing and modeling which could be impacted by behavioral economics.
- Data Science and Analytics Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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To further the actuarial profession’s involvement in big data and machine learning technologies and to inform public policy decision making related to the use of big data, predictive models, and other advanced analytics in unbiased and objective terms. The committee monitors federal legislation and regulatory activities and is charged with developing papers intended to educate stakeholders.
Time Commitment: The group meets once a month on an hour long conference call. One to two hours additional workload in paper drafting per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience with or interest in big data, predictive models, and emerging issues in the field.
- ERM/ORSA Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The ERM/ORSA Committee represents the Academy in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Own Risk and Solvency Assessment (ORSA) matters at the International Association of Insurance Supervisors, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), the International Actuarial Association (IAA), and before other interested stakeholders by producing position papers on ERM and ORSA matters and developing ideas for research on ERM and ORSA issues. The committee includes members from property/casualty, life, and health practice areas.
Time Commitment: One monthly conference call and two to four hours per month expected workload.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: A working knowledge of enterprise risk management principles, including governance, risk assessment, risk quantification, and model risk management is preferred.
- Climate Related Financial Disclosures Subcommittee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The CRFD subcommittee of the ERM/ORSA committee is both researching CRFD and commenting on current proposals to add and/or revise CRFD requirements by regulators. The research currently focuses on assessing possibilities for the revision/replacement of the NAIC’s Climate Disclosure Survey.
Time Commitment: One to two calls a month plus additional 2-4 hours work per month depending on project.
Travel: None.
Skills/experience: Interest in climate disclosures and climate risk issues preferred.
- Liquidity Risk Work Group
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The ERM/ORSA Committee’s Liquidity Risk Work Group is charged with reviewing, commenting and developing educational materials related to longevity risk in the property/casualty, life, and health practice areas.
Time Commitment: One call per week until finished plus an additional 2-4 hours work per month on project.
Travel: None.
- Financial Reporting Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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This committee coordinates and develops Academy work on domestic and international financial reporting issues that affects multiple areas of actuarial practice. The committee also monitors related work within the other practice councils to ensure consistency and avoid conflicts across practice areas.
Time Commitment: One monthly conference call and two to four hours per month expected workload.
Travel: None. Optional annual meeting with AICPA’s Insurance Expert Panel.
Skills/Experience: Financial reporting experience is required. Public accounting financial reporting (e.g., U.S. GAAP, or IFRS) is a plus.
- IFRS 17 Work Group (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The IFRS 17 Work Group of the Financial Reporting Committee focuses on the comprehensive International Financial Reporting Standards that establish the accounting for insurance contracts. IFRS 17 was released in May 2017, and after being deferred two years, has an effective date of 1/1/2023. Companies are in the midst of determining their implementation strategy. The work group analyzes and discusses the implementation of the new international standard and creates educational resources for actuaries working in financial reporting. The work group also responds to international stakeholder exposures related to IFRS 17.
Time Commitment: The group generally meets once every other month on an hour-long conference call.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Financial reporting experience particularly related to IFRS matters is required.
- Prudential Regulation Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Prudential Regulation Committee coordinates and develops Academy policy on solvency and capital issues that affect multiple areas of actuarial practice. It includes providing input to governmental and supranational bodies, both nationally and internationally, through meetings, testimony and responding to requests for comments on prudential regulatory issues that can affect the practice of U.S.-based actuaries. The committee also monitors related work within the other practice councils to ensure consistency across practice areas.
Time Commitment: The group meets once a month on an hour long conference call. One to two hours additional workload in work product drafting per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience specifically with solvency and capital issues preferred.
- Reinsurance Work Group (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Reinsurance Work Group works on reinsurance issues that affect multiple areas of actuarial practice. The committee discusses research and public policy initiatives relating to reinsurance, and develops Academy work on reinsurance-related public policy issues that affect multiple areas of actuarial practice, domestically and abroad. Importantly, the committee monitors and interacts with the reinsurance committees of the International Actuarial Association and the International Association of Insurance Supervisors.
Time Commitment: The group meets once a month on an hour long conference call. One to two hours additional workload in work product drafting per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience on reinsurance issues is required.
- Asset Adequacy and Reinsurance Issues Task Force
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The Asset Adequacy and Reinsurance Issues Task Force (AARITF) will monitor current and emerging approaches related to the projection of risks and returns in asset adequacy testing for “complex assets” as defined in AG 53, including assisting regulators as requested in evaluating AG 53 information. The AARITF will also assess current and emerging practices and evolving regulatory guidance related to offshore vehicles for reinsurance, including considerations for actuaries as they consider reserve adequacy for business that uses such offshore vehicles.
Time Commitment: The group meets once a month on an hour long conference call. One to two hours additional workload in work product drafting per month.
Travel: None.
- Climate Change Joint Committee (Actively Seeking Volunteers)
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The Climate Change Joint Committee engages with various issues related to climate change, including analyzing aspects of climate disclosures, the variations of climate impacts, and broader climate issues. The committee also interacts with various federal agencies on climate-related issues in the form of comment letters and other correspondence.
Time Commitment: The group meets once a month on an hour long conference call. One to two hours additional workload in work product drafting per month.
Travel: None.
Skills/Experience: Experience with or assessing various aspects of climate risk preferred; and/or experience with climate disclosure requirements.
Short-Term/Micro-Volunteer Opportunities
The Pension Assistance List (PAL)
- The Pension Assistance List (PAL)
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The Pension Assistance List (PAL) is a service created by the American Academy of Actuaries. It is open to actuaries who are interested in helping individuals who seek to understand their pension benefits. It is intended to provide professional services to consumers who have questions about their pension plans. PAL is not intended to provide legal support or expert witness services in connection with pending or contemplated litigation. When a request is received, the PAL coordinator seeks to find an actuary from the PAL volunteer list who has the appropriate expertise. The PAL actuary contacts the consumer directly and commits to offer up to four hours of free help. Knowledge of pension and retirement benefits is required. For more information about the PAL program, please visit the webpage.
Writing Opportunities
- Writing Opportunities
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There are opportunities to contribute an article to Academy publications. Volunteers may be contacted by the Academy to check availability and willingness to write, be interviewed for, or contribute in some other way to the development of an article.
Contingencies
Actuarial Update
Casualty Quarterly
Retirement Report
Life Perspectives
Health Check
Career Advice articles
Other
Volunteer Pool
- Volunteering for the Academy's speaker pool
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This option allows the Academy to contact you to present or co-present an annual meeting session, webinar, or other public speaking opportunity.
- Volunteering for the Academy's content reviewer pool
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This option allows the Academy to contact you to review written public policy or professionalism materials for publication by the Academy.
- Volunteering for the Academy's content contributor pool
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This option allows the Academy to contact you for an opportunity to contribute material for dissemination in one of the Academy’s publications (the practice-specific quarterlies or Contingencies).
- Volunteering for the Actuary Voices podcast
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This option allows the Academy to contact you to participate in Actuary Voices, the official podcast of the American Academy of Actuaries. This podcast brings thoughtful conversations on the role of professionalism in actuaries’ day jobs and the Academy’s public policy work.
- Contributing to Member Spotlight
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This option allows the Academy to contact you to be interviewed to share a glimpse of your professional and personal lives.
- New Volunteer Mentorship Pool
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This is a pilot option for established volunteers interested in mentoring new volunteers.
- In-Person Event Volunteers
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This option allows the Academy to contact you to help with various opportunities around our in-person events, including greeters, dine-around hosts, etc.
- Internal Project Support Volunteers
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This option allows the Academy to contact you to help with focus groups around new Academy activities, coordinate outreach to students, become social media ambassadors, participate in the Annual Meeting Content Advisory Group, etc.
If you have any questions about the information above, please contact volunteersurvey@actuary.org.