Description: This report presents mortality under individual immediate annuities, life income settlements, and matured deferred annuities between the 1971 and 1976 anniversaries.

Description: Gene therapy is a quickly evolving field and will continue to grow as a risk concern for many health plans, stop loss insurers and reinsurers. Currently, there are only two approved gene therapies in the U.S., but that number is expected to escalate starting in the fall of 2022. Revisit the experience plans have had with the first two gene therapies, discuss plan design and network considerations in light of gene therapy, and discuss the actual composition of the near-term pipeline along with a range of modeled financial impacts and considerations for payers.

Description: This web page provides links to online graphs and maps, developed by the Society of Actuaries (SOA), of COVID-19 case and death data. The exhibits provide three levels of geographic summarization: worldwide data by country, United States data by state, and United States data by county. The SOA updates these online exhibits on a weekly basis (every Monday morning) with the latest data downloaded from the

Description: Call for reviews and articles on software programs.

Description: October 2008 issue of the Product Development Section newsletter

Description: Recent regulatory developments and ASOP 56 have reinforced the need for robust governance over actuarial models, but there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Design and implementation of an efficient and sustainable model governance framework requires customizing various aspects (e.g., risk rating system, ownership and responsibilities, usage of testing and documentation templates) to fit each company's unique culture and organizational structure.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are research projects and reports that focus on finance.

Description: This report series examines weather extremes in North America, focusing solely on major weather events

Description: On May 5, 2016, the Long-Term Care Valuation (B) Work Group of National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC’s) Health Actuarial (B) Task Force’s Long-Term Care Actuarial Working Group (LTCAWG) requested recommendations from the American Academy of Actuaries (Academy)1 and the Society of Actuaries Research Institute (SOA)2 to replace the mortality and lapse bases for statutory minimum reserves. A copy of the request is included in Appendix 1 to this report. The Academy and SOA created a Long-Term Care Valuation Work Group (Work Group) to address the request. The Work Group is chaired by Warren Jones, the Mortality Subgroup is led by Bruce Stahl, and the Lapse Subgroup is led by Bob Yee. The Work Group has provided regular updates to the LTCAWG at national meetings and provided opportunities for the LTCAWG members to ask questions regarding the work in progress. This report presents the recommended lapse tables in Appendix 3, and recommended mortality tables in Appendix 4, and describes the methodology and process in developing these tables.

Description: View information on the 2021 Board Member Candidate David Ingram.