Description: This report predicts farm-level crop yield distributions in the absence of farm-level yield data.

Description: Increasing cyber incidents and emergent characteristics of cyber threats have become significant concerns for organizations, governments, and the insurance sector. The growing cyber risks, whether catastrophic risks that an entire town, country, or even world may face due to cyber-attacks, or smaller scale cyber risks such as right where you live with smart home technology, can impact technological infrastructure, public health and safety, economic security, and even political stability. The SOA Research Institute has been conducting several research projects in the area of cyber security risks and the impact of those on insurance companies. Discover these research projects meant to inform actuaries of the ways in which risks can be incorporated into their models, product design, and risk management frameworks. Also, explore research reports that explore new technologies and the development of tools which can aid both practitioners as well as other researchers.

Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Society of Insurance Research (SIR) started developing research addressing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) topics. Join panelists as they briefly present an overview of their organization's DEI research and share their perspectives on common challenges facing all the stages of this research: - Planning relevant and timely research with a long timeline. - Getting appropriate data and resources to support your research. - Communicating research on topics that may be controversial.

Description: Overview of the new SOA General Insurance education track.

Description: This research report introduces Delta Boosting as a new member of the boosting family.

Description: Actuaries can play an active role in social impact toby helping vulnerable communities access otherwise inaccessible insurance that can help increase their climate change resilience and improve their living conditions by lowering the risks that they face.

Description: A detailed look at charges to the FSA pathway in the GI track that is planned for 2023.

Description: This research would identify and address all the barriers that are holding back the development of parametric insurance in North American markets. Results will be outlined in a report that articulates product design considerations with supporting actuarial pricing and underwriting guidelines.