Just a reminder.
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are the zoom calls interactive (ie, count towards organized activity)?
This could be a good find, Meep. For folks like me that have done zero CPD this year so far.
Yes, they are.
Live webcasts have counted as organized activity ever since CE requirements started.
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this is great. thanks for posting. I reached out to them and they sent me zoom info.
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reminding again:
The Actuarial Club of Hartford/Springfield (SOA-associated) is having two weeks of lunchtime sessions on Zoom:
https://actuariesclubofboston.com/Spring-2021-Meeting/
When: May 10-21, 2021. Sessions are 11am-12pm EDT except as noted.
I missed today’s session because I was driving my kid from her 2nd Pfizer shot. But I’ll probably be on tomorrow!
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over 300 in attendance today.
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Watching the session now – on IRC sect 7702
Tomorrow’s session will be a professionalism session, for people who need that type of CE…
If any of the ACHS members/leadership happen to read this, I just want to let you know that I truly appreciate you making these available to the public. It’s been very useful for me
Thank you.
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I forwarded the message… (and link to here)
Anyways, the professionalism session is today at 11am!
Btw, the professionalism session is not being recorded today (dang), but it seems most of the other sessions are.
You can get CE credit for watching recorded sessions, it just won’t be “Organized Activity” credits.
Did I hear MPC on that call? of 500 people, of course you would be asking the questions.
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Of course, and it wasn’t a question.
I’d like to second this - I really do appreciate these being made public! Thank you! 
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Pinnacle consulting does free seminars , I think for CAS
Recordings and slides are starting to be posted here:
Not all sessions were recorded, fyi.
Yes, you can get CE by watching recordings (you can get CE by reading articles); you just won’t get “organized” credit.
https://actuariesclubofboston.com/Spring-2021-Meeting/
I’m really looking forward to today’s session:
Thursday, May 20: (Life/Annuities) Mortality Differential by Socioeconomic Categories in the US
Magali Barbieri, Associate Director, Human Mortality Database
Session description:
The session will present the results of a study funded by the Society of Actuaries, which purpose was to measure mortality differences across all US counties grouped into ten socioeconomic categories. The presentation will discuss how differential mortality patterns have evolved over the period from 1982 to 2018, which age groups have most contributed to the gaps in life expectancy across socioeconomic categories, and how these patterns have contributed to the US lagging further and further behind other high-income countries in the average length of life.Magali Barbieri received her PhD in Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990. She currently holds a joint research position at the French Institute for Demographic Studies (INED) in Paris, France and in the Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. At Berkeley, she leads the Human Mortality Database (HMD, www.mortality.org) project and she is the Director of the United States Mortality DataBase (usa.mortality.org). Magali has maintained an active research career, publishing articles in top demography and other internationally ranked journals (for a complete list of publications, see http://www.demog.berkeley.edu/directories/profiles/barbiericv.pdf). Her main areas of interest are geographic and international differences in mortality in high-income countries in general and in the United States and France in particular, with a special focus on medical causes of death.
I did a tweet-a-thon with her & Dale Hall from the SOA last fall, which was interesting.
Want to get some CE credit from reading tweets? Check this out:
https://twitter.com/hashtag/SOATalksMortality?src=hashtag_click
The research the presentation was based on is here:
https://www.soa.org/resources/research-reports/2020/us-mort-rate-socioeconomic/
Didn’t want to start a new topic.
I have on demand pre-recorded sessions to access. They are 50 minutes long. I can watch them at 1.25x speed. How much CE can I claim?
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(I do the same thing)
And yes, I think the time-based CE credits can get a bit silly – a lot of my CE from reading articles. I don’t time myself.
Imagine meep & I read the same article. It takes her 10 minutes. It takes me 50. Do I get more credit because I’m a poor reader? I guess so.
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For crying out loud, I -write- a lot of articles do presentations that others use for CE. I suppose I can book that. I generally don’t, because I’m not hurting for CE.
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