Open For Submissions

• Mortality Literature Review
• Optimizing Application of Risk Management Concepts to Pension Plans
• Pension Risk Transfer-Evaluating Impact & Barriers to De-Risking Strategies
• Potential Sources of Bias in Small Group and Individual Market Risk Adjustment
• PBA Implementation Guide – Financial Reporting-Life Products
• Setting Dynamic Policyholder Behavior for Life Insurance and Annuity Companies
• Variable Annuity Guarantee Product Risk Evaluation Approaches
• Finance Projects
• Risk Margins
• Testing of Liability Pricing Models
• Health Projects

Closed for Submissions; Project in Process

• Decisions made prior to and during Retirement
• Advancing ERM in Canada
• Regulatory Risk and North American Insurance Organizations
• Communicating the Financial Health of Public Pension Plans
• Risk Management Section Research Topics
• Issues in Applying Credibility to Group Disability Insurance
• Future Equity Patterns and Baby Boomer Retirements
• The Cost of the Future Newly Insured
• Approaches for the Evaluation and Adoption of Medical Technologies
• Literature Review and Assessment of Mortality Improvement Rates in the U.S. Population: Past Experience and Future Long-term Trends
• Life Reinsurance Treaty Construction
• Select Period Mortality Assumptions
• Insurance Regulatory Structures and Strategy-EU Compared with the U.S.
• Accountable Care Organizations: Actuarial and Risk Issues
• Topics in Systemic Risk
• Estimating Equity Risk Premiums
• Strategies for Minimizing, Managing, and/or Mitigating Extreme Event Risk
• Volatility in Fair Value and Related Accounting and Mitigation Strategies
• Cancer Claims Cost Experience Study
• Back Testing of Investment Performance by Asset Class
• Development of a Network Model for Identification and Regulation of Systemic Risk in the Financial System
• End-of-Life Issues in Health Care
• Health Product Risk Analysis
• Funding of Public Insurance Plans in Canada and Globally
• Canadian Healthcare Fund Analysis and Model
• Older Age Mortality and Other Older Age Assumptions
• Risk Adjustment under the Affordable Care Act
• The Impact of Insufficient Retirement Savings on Workforce Management
• Group Term Life Mortality Study
• Risk Appetite and Strategic Planning
• Pension Assumptions and Methods
• Comparative Failure Experience in the U.S. and Canadian Insurance and Banking Industries-Causes and Extent
• The Relationship between Health Costs and Non-Traditional Predictor Variables
• The Risk of Severe Inflation and Deflation on North American Financial Security Systems and Industries
• Actuarial Methods for Valuing Illiquid Assets
• Long Term Care Section and ILTCI Conference Association Research Topics
• Pension Plan Request for Proposal
• Embedded Options
• Insurance Company Investment Strategies in an Economic Downturn
• Survey on Market Risk Best Practices for Life Insurance Companies
• A Literature Search on Two Related Retirement Topics: Retirement Replacement Ratios and Drawdown of Retirement Savings
• The Subprime Mortgage Crisis and Lessons for Insurers
• Update to Reflecting Risk in Pricing Survey

Open For Submissions

• Post Level Term “Shock Lapse” Assumption Survey & Study
• 2011 CLICE Expense Study Data Request

Closed for Submissions; Project in Process

• Retirement 20/20 Call for Models
• 2003-10 Private Placement Credit Risk Loss Experience Study Data Request
• SOA/AAA 2001-10 Cancer Claim Cost Study Data Request
• 2007-09 Group Term Life Experience Study Data Request
• Guaranteed Issue / Simplified Issue Data Request
• 2010 CLICE Expense Study Data Request
• Health Section Complexity Call for Models
• 2009 CLICE Expense Study Data Request
• 2007–09 Individual Life Experience Study Data Request
• 2005–08 Individual Payout Annuity Experience Study Data Request
• Pension Plan Data Request
• 2008 CLICE Expense Study Data Request
• Seeking Contributions–2008 Group LTD Experience Study
• Contacts from Potential Contributing Companies

Open For Submissions

• Pension Section Contest on Defined Contribution Plans
• Ninth International Longevity Risk and Capital Markets Solutions Conference
• Living to 100 Symposium V

Closed for Submissions; Project in Process

• Health Care Reform Implementation Pricing Methods Contest
• Impact on Financial Security Systems of Baby Boomers Moving into an Asset Decumulation Mode
• 2012 ERM Symposium
• Volatility Management in Pension and OPEB Plans
• 2011 ERM Symposium
• Health Watch Article Contest on Provider Payment Reform
• Migration (Immigration and Emigration)
• Retirement Security in the New Economy: Paradigm Shifts, New Approaches and Holistic Strategies
• Using Retirement Benefits for Workforce Management
• Funding Strategies for Single Employer Defined Benefit Plans under PPA