The Society of Actuaries Research Institute develops and funds a variety of research on enterprise risk management (ERM). Learn about emerging risks, effective modeling techniques and much more on ERM. See our research projects and research on newly developing topics.
Risk Management Research
15th Emerging Risks Survey Key Findings
Review key findings from the 15th Annual Survey of Emerging Risks.
Modeling the Variety of Decision Making
This new research enhances existing actuarial modeling practice.
Resurrecting the White Swan Mindset
Black Swans are seen as the most difficult kinds of events or emergences to forecast.
COVID-19 from the U.S. Insurance Industry Regulation Perspective
This special episode of the SOA’s Research Insights Podcast highlights how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting actuaries and their interaction with U.S. insurance regulators. We were pleased to be joined by Mike Consedine, Chief Executive Officer of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC).
Recent Publications
Early Detection of Insurer Insolvency
This study aims to develop a market-based insolvency prediction model to detect financially distressed insurers at an early stage.
Managing Investment Risks of Insurance Contractual Designs, May 28, 2021
The Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Finance Research and Joint Risk Management Section Research Committee are pleased to make available a research report developing a framework for quantifying and analyzing various forms of contractual designs.
Society of Actuaries Research Brief: Impact of COVID-19, June 12, 2020
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.
Research Reports

Future Long-Term Care in Canada
View new report demonstrating how ERM can be used to inform decision makers on the future of long-term care in Canada.
Negative Interest Rates
View the new study examining negative interest rates and the insurance industry.
Macroeconomics-Based Economic Scenario Generation
Read about new research introducing actuaries and others to dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, a type of macroeconomic model.