HeyJaredSOA Podcasts - Society of Actuaries
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- Sep 23, 2026
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Health Community: The View from the Tail: What Accident and Health Reinsurers See in High-Cost Claims and Emerging Therapies (opens the original)
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Host Ankit Nanda, FSA, MAAA, FCA, speaks with Paul Skrtich, ASA, MAAA, ACIA, Senior Vice President, Accident and Health at OdysseyRe, about how health insurance looks from the reinsurer's seat, where the tail of the claims distribution drives the economics. The conversation covers lasers on known high-cost claimants, emerging cost drivers from skin substitutes to GLP-1s and cell and gene therapies, and how ACOs and provider-payer alignment of interests reshape the risk reaching the excess layers
Health Community: The Payer Landscape in Transition: Transparency, Incentives, and What Comes Next (opens the original)
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Jeff Dunn, President and CEO of Cooperative Benefits Group, joins host Ankit Nanda, FSA, MAAA, FCA, to map the U.S. payer landscape and the forces reshaping it. Drawing on a career that runs from managed care pharmacy into benefits consulting, he sets out how employers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, providers, and consultants fit together, where incentives genuinely align and where they only appear to, and what the fiduciary and transparency environment means in practice. The conversa
Health Community: Health Insurance Programs and the Actuarial Voice in Health Policy (opens the original)
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Cori Uccello, FSA, MAAA, FCA, MPP joins host Ankit Nanda, FSA, MAAA, FCA for a tour of the U.S. health insurance coverage landscape, including Medicare, Medicaid, and the ACA marketplaces. Drawing on a career as the senior health fellow at the American Academy of Actuaries, MedPAC commissioner, and Congressional Budget Office panel of health advisers member, she discusses how actuarial analysis enters policy debates, where it carries weight, and what actuaries should understand about the program
Young Professional Advisory Council: The Actuary Who Changed How We Pass Exams (opens the original)
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Coaching Actuaries has become a familiar name to actuarial candidates around the world—but how did it all begin? In this episode, we sit down with Dave Kester, founder of Coaching Actuaries, to discuss the journey of building the company, the evolution of actuarial education, and what the future may hold for aspiring actuaries.
Investment and Risk Management Community: The Strategic Pivot: Actuaries in FP&A (opens the original)
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What happens when actuaries move beyond the model and into the heart of business strategy? In this episode of The Strategic Pivot , Jundie Wei, FSA, MAAA, and FP&A leader John Visicaro explore how actuaries are becoming essential partners in forecasting, capital management, and executive decision-making. From translating complex assumptions into business impact to answering the critical "so what?" behind the numbers, this conversation highlights the growing role of actuaries in shaping the futur
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