Description: A report to explain the new Valuation Basic Tables (VBT), Relative Risk tables (RR), and Commissioners Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables (CSO)

Description: This is the accompanying spreadsheet for the 2001-02 U.S. Individual Life Persistency Update report. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: This is a table from an article in The Actuary Magazine entitled A Strategic Analysis of the U.S. Life Insurance Industry Part II: Products.

Description: The purpose of this research project was to survey professionals in the viatical and life settlement a.k.a. secondary insurance industry to discover how actuaries could best serve this particular business.

Description: This report helps to identify key socioeconomic trends influencing the need and demand for the industry's products and services, and how these trends will influence marketing methods.

Description: This is a research report that highlights the characteristics of combination plans that serve to reduce the risks to insurers issuing life or annuity products linked to long-term care insurance. Observations are provided to assist in the understanding of the factors that explain the profit change sensitivity results and the natural hedging against major risks that inherently is present within the linked products.

Description: The SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses (CLICE) has submitted its recommendation for the 2017 Generally Recognized Expense Table (GRET)

Description: Attempts to Quantify Potential Impact of Pandemic Influenza on the U.S. Life Insurance Industry

Description: The Marketing and Distribution Section initiated a multi-phase research effort to better understand the middle market for life insurance and to identify segments that would allow the industry to better target customer needs. Supported by the Committee on Life Insurance Research, Product Development and Reinsurance Sections, the Phase 1 study examining young families and identified three sub segments. This document are the questions used to identify the three market sub segments.

Description: Describes the type of information sought on the Preferred Class Structure Questionnaire for the 2005-2007 individual life experience study and explains how to fill out the questionnaire