Authored by: Edward Toy – Senior Manager, Investment Specialist Following on our last Market Briefing from earlier this year (March 11, 2020), to say that we have experienced a roller coaster ride in the last six months would be an obvious understatement. The impact of the pandemic on the US economy was severe and we...
The April 23 rd , 2020 Health Actuarial (B) Task Force (HATF) meeting included multiple presentations regarding the potential impact of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic on the health insurance marketplace. The meeting provided an opportunity for members of HATF, interested regulators, and Interested Parties to gain perspective on considerations that may impact the 2021 Patient...
Authored by: Kemi Akinyemi and Ben Leiser Published in SOA: Actuarial Technology Today, May 2020. The Society of Actuaries Actuarial Innovation & Technology Program Steering Committee engaged Risk & Regulatory Consulting LLC (RRC) to conduct research on the intersection of U.S. insurance ratemaking and analytics techniques in advanced modern rating systems and associated regulatory considerations...
Written By: Veronika Cooper Published In: SOFE, The Examiner Spring 2020 In 2019, Risk & Regulatory Consulting, LLC authored a study sponsored by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) that covered the extent of the use of Big Data or Data Analytics to enhance insurer operations, including sales, distribution, product development, underwriting, and claim management within...
Authored by: Edward Toy – Senior Manager, Investment Specialist There is an inherent risk in presenting any cogent ideas about the market in an environment as what we have been experiencing in recent weeks. At any given moment, the data I am relying on may be substantially stale as the Dow Industrials, which is the...
Authored by: LeeAnne Creevy, Ben Leiser, Tricia Matson, Ed Toy Risk & Regulatory Consulting, LLC (“RRC” or “we”) supports the efforts of the Financial Stability (EX) Task Force and the Liquidity Assessment (EX) Subgroup (“Subgroup”) to provide additional tools to enable an assessment of macroprudential impacts on the broader financial markets of a liquidity stress...
Authored by: Edward Toy – Senior Manager, Investment Specialist As the various investment markets head towards the end of the calendar year, one of the inevitable questions for US insurers is, and has always been, what will be appropriate valuations for their invested assets. While the majority of invested assets for US insurers are reported...
RRC’s Comments Regarding the Draft Template that State DOIs may use to Assist in Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on 2021 ACA Rates