The SOA Strategic Research Programs emphasize the skillset and thought leadership of actuaries, and help provide insights to members, stakeholders, and the public on socially relevant topics.
The SOA’s Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research Program includes a wide array of actuarial research, surveys, papers and experience studies. Topics include population mortality, socioeconomic drivers of longevity, mortality predictions and mortality improvement.
This Society of Actuaries Research Brief has been constructed to highlight some of the key features of the COVID-19 epidemic and contemplate the risks for the actuarial profession to consider in their work.
Submit an essay exploring the impact of COVID-19 on the future of the life insurance industry and the operation of life insurance companies.
Read the SOA report on the economic impact of non-medical opioid use in the United States from 2015-2018. Learn about this analysis of longevity trends.
Read about the findings from the 2009-2015 individual life experience studies.
See the collection of Commissioners Standard Ordinary tables.
See the wide array of mortality and longevity experience studies.
The Actuaries Longevity Illustrator provides perspectives on longevity. Access this tool jointly developed by the Society of Actuaries and the American Academy of Actuaries.
Mort.soa.org provides a variety of mortality tables and other related tables.
Review the latest 2018 mortality observations on the U.S. population.
Access the SOA’s collection of mortality and longevity research.
The Product Development Section, the Financial Reporting Section, the Modeling Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research are pleased to present new research on modeling and forecasting cause-of-death mortality.
Access the hundreds of papers and presentations from past Living to 100 symposia on mortality, aging and living longer.
