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Articles May 2024
Global Health Brief: Health insurance fraud, waste, and abuse
RGA's Dr. Steve Woh explains the many ways health insurance fraud, waste, and abuse can result in unnecessarily increased claims costs and outlines steps insurers can take to detect and combat all three. Read More
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Research and White Papers April 2024
Clearing the Air: The conundrum of climate change and the impacts on health

For life and health insurers, identifying approaches to better quantify and predict the impacts of climate change is both critical and challenging. RGA's Georgiana Willwerth-Pascutiu outlines some of the many factors to consider and explores steps insurers might take...

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Research and White Papers April 2024
Multi-Cancer Early Detection Tests and Modeling the Potential Impact on Insurance
MCED tests promise to transform the detection of cancer. RGA explores what this could mean for insurers and the challenges of modeling and quantifying MCED tests' potential impact. Read More
Howard Liao
Articles April 2024
Private Debt and Equity | Howard Liao

In this Inside RGA Q&A, Howard Liao, RGA’s Senior Managing Director and Head of Private Debt and Equity, talks about RGA’s unique approach to investments, the importance of mentorship, and what it feels like to scale the highest peak in ...

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Articles April 2024
Team Collaboration in Pension Risk Transfer is a Key Ingredient for Success

Pension risk transfer (PRT) is a booming sector of the insurance industry. In this article, originally published in The Actuary, explore the elements of a ...

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Articles April 2024
How to Develop Your Advanced Analytics Career as an Actuary

Are you interested in becoming an advanced analytics actuary, one of the most sought-after professionals in the life and health insurance industry? This article,

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Videos April 2024
Case ReView: Thyroid Cancer
In this presentation featured in RGA's ReFlections newsletter, Dr. Sheetal Salgaonkar... Read More
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Research and White Papers April 2024
Eyes on the Prize: Spotlight on PCSK-9 Inhibitors

In this article from RGA's ReFlections newsletter, Dr. Heather Lund explores the mechan...

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Research and White Papers April 2024
Ultra-Processed Foods: Fast Food, Fast Life?

It is important for insurers to understand potential causes, such as high ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption, behind rising rates of non-communicable diseases. In this article from RGA's

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Research and White Papers April 2024
Non-Alzheimer’s Dementias: A Closer Look

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that by the year 2030 – less than 10 years from now – about 78 million people will be living with dementia. This number is projected to nearly double, to 139 million, by 2050.1 This article from RGA's

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Research and White Papers March 2024
Changing Financial Risks for Medigap Insurance

Originally published as a two-part series (Part 1,

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Research and White Papers March 2024
Artificial Intelligence – A New Frontier for Rehabilitation
No longer an ‘if’ but a ’when’, many insurers are currently considering how AI can best be leveraged to enhance the customer experience and increase efficiencies by automating routine tasks and processes. RGA's Linda Winterbottom explores the implications.  Read More
Laura Cockrill
Articles March 2024
Financial Insights and Strategy | Laura Cockrill

In this Inside RGA Q&A, Laura Cockrill, RGA’s Executive Vice President of Finance, shares the changes she has seen over her two-decade career at RGA, the key role finance plays in making decisions across the organization, and the philoso...

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Research and White Papers March 2024
The Protein Science Revolution: Implications for human health and mortality assumptions
RGA's Craig Armstrong explores recent key breakthroughs in protein science, the new possibilities they enable, and the potential implications for mortality assumption-setting. Read More
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Articles March 2024
The CDC’s New Respiratory Guidelines: Five Key Questions
RGA’s Chief Science Advisor Dr. Daniel Zimmerman shares his thoughts on updated CDC COVID-19 guidelines and their implications for insurers. Read More
A man wearing a red sweater stares grimly at a stack of forms
Articles March 2024
Are We Drowning in Forms?

Claims adjudicators play a pivotal role in the insurance industry. Their decisions impact policyholders’ lives, and they rely heavily on data to make informed choices. But what happens when the quest for data becomes too prescriptive? In a recent issue of Claims ...

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Articles March 2024
Insurance Roundtable: Harnessing Structured Underwriting Data for Automation, Innovation, and Accuracy

To look more closely at industry efforts to streamline the collection and integration of complex medical data, RGA recently hosted a panel of key stakeholders to get their top considerations and perspectives on the formatting of underwriting data.  

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Articles March 2024
Defusing the Pension Time Bomb: Lessons from pension risk transfer

This Best's Review article discusses why, as public pension programs face challenges, conve...

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Articles March 2024
Steady Route for Japan's Reinsurance Market in 2024

RGA's Hironori Takahashi, Chief Executive Officer of RGA Japan, shares with Asia Insurance Review how the need for new business growth and capital efficiency in Japan has led to the development of reinsurance solutions in the areas of underwriting, product d...

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