Description: A plain-language, high-level explanation of employer withdrawal liability issues, including how they grew to be large and barriers to their collection.

Description: This report represents the second in a series of studies conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the Society of Actuaries Long-Term Care Experience Committee and focuses on recent long-term care insurance industry persistency results. The study examines persistency experience by reporting on changes in both voluntary lapse and total termination activity for all participating companies during calendar years 2005 through 2007.

Description: This web page describes a report that presents results for industry long-term care insurance persistency.

Description: As results emerged showing the influence of COVID-19 on recent mortality, the Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee (MLPSC) began to ponder what it means for the future. Was the coronavirus pandemic just a temporary shock to U.S. mortality with mortality quickly returning to prepandemic levels upon its conclusion or a lingering factor in future U.S. mortality from the potential occurrence of new coronavirus variants, post-COVID-19 conditions (“long COVID”), deferral of needed health care treatment, a fatigued health care system and other elements? Only time will provide the answers to these questions.

Description: Fall 2021 Archive: Life Financial Management (U.S.)

Description: Analysis of U.S. multiemployer pension plan system contributions and their funding progress over 2009-2013.

Description: View the Archive Fall 2016: Group and Health Core Exam U.S.

Description: View the Archive Fall 2017: Design and Accounting Exam (U.S.).

Description: An experience study of individual payout annuities covering calendar years 2009 through 2013.

Description: A chart analyzing the SOA membership ourside Canada and the United States.