Description: This SOA report describes the components of margin for calculating capitation rates in a Medicaid context along with practical issues that MCOs may face.

Description: This is a study to perform a mortality analysis of the 1898-1902 birth cohort.

Description: This report discusses drivers of U.S. mortality improvement for the short and long term.

Description: A Delphi study was conducted to get input regarding current and future accelerated underwriting techniques and how those may impact future mortality exprience.

Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the final 2020 Actuarial Value Calculator and Actuarial Value Calculator Methodology

Description: Because of its complexity, ensuring the security of cyberspace is one of today’s most significant challenges. As the cyber environment becomes more integrated with the real world, the direct impact of cyber security incidents on business is also heightened. This study aims to develop a generic model that can be applied by any organization. For the validation of the developed cyber risk analysis method, simulations and sensitivity analysis will be performed.

Description: Excel spreadsheet for Extracting Subsets of Data from GHCN Daily Dataset.

Description: Learn about the potential insured risks from wildfires to individual life and health companies.

Description: This report is prepared to provide a comprehensive overview of the professional financial advice industry including the strengths and weaknesses of currently available approaches to providing (and receiving) financial advice, particularly as part of an employer-sponsored employee benefit. Financial advice is broadly defined to include traditional methods as well as alternative methods to providing personalized guidance. This report is also designed to provide guidance for retirement plan sponsors in making decisions regarding the role, scope, and delivery models of financial advice to plan participants. As appropriate, the report differentiates between investment advice, which includes investment management and asset accumulation decisions, and retirement advice, which includes retirement preparation, security, and planning decisions, and is built upon a thorough understanding of an individual’s personal values and goals. Rather than provide an actionable list for plan sponsors to implement, this report is designed to raise awareness of the issues that are worth considering.

Description: This paper is intended to be a resource for actuaries and other professionals interested in learning more about longevity risk. It summarizes the results of the literature review by discussing observed trends and outlook on mortality, development of retirement markets, ways to mitigate risk, summary of products with risk exposure and quantification and management of the risk.