Description: Discusses the market, demographic, and macroeconomic factors that affect actuaries' choices for the assumptions they use in the pricing and valuation of many insurance products.

Description: Brief discussion on recent published experience studies and RFPs.

Description: Article from The Actuary, September 1989 – Volume 23, No. 8 describing the impact of the Cowell/Hoskins report and the subsequent Report of the Society of Actuaries Task Force on AIDS.

Description: The Life Practice Area seeks input on strategic issues including the timeliness of experience reports, the increasing levels of regulation, defending risk classification, ant the viability of the actuarial profession.

Description: Report on the activities of the Academy’s health practice council and its work groups.

Description: This article provides an overview of critical illness insurance: history, product description, and the three primary ways to offer critical illness coverage in the United States. This article also contains an illustration of an issue age premium rate calculation, as well as product features and rating applications specific to the various types of critical illness coverage.

Description: An analysis of US population mortality trends and the impact of COVID.

Description: Write-up of 2018 Actuarial Research Conference from an international perspective.

Description: A short article looking at the results from an annual assumption survey of VA writers with a focus on changes companies observed and planned to make due to COVID-19. In the article we discuss what companies should be considering as they approach the 2020 year end assumption setting and audit season.

Description: The first preliminary results on international experience studies on mortality and persistency for the pilot countries of Taiwan, Mexico and South Korea are discussed and future expansion of the studies are explained.