Description: This research report develops a framework for modeling and pricing cybersecurity risk.

Description: ARCH is an informal electronic publication presenting current actuarial research, which the Education and Research Section of the Society of Actuaries offers to members and friends of the actuarial community.

Description: Individuals receive this award for their superior performance, team collaboration and effective communication, leadership and also for their inspiration to others.

Description: View the 2017 Living to 100 Symposium Monographs.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are projects and reports, including topics such as risk management.

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

Description: Past recipients of the David Garrick Halmstad prize.

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

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

Description: This web page on Research Projects provides information about the research activity of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Committee on Knowledge Extension Research [CKER]. There is a link to recent winners of the Edward A. Lew Award, including brief descriptions of the authors and their papers on actuarial modeling. There are also links to over 50 completed papers and other websites.

Description: List of data analytics resources.

Description: The Investment Section is hosting a member’s only Asset Allocation Contest.

Description: Welcome to the resource page for the Behavior Finance Subgroup of SOA's Health Section. Our subgroup reviews literature, proposes studies, and compares notes on the applicability of behavioral finance to the purchase and use of health insurance and healthcare services. We translate our findings into articles, presentations, or summary material that is then made available to the SOA membership.

Description: Actuaries’ work delivers value. Value to business, organizations and to the public. The world depends on actuaries to make sound decisions for the future. How? By measuring and managing risk, actuaries bring financial security to individuals, organizations and the public. As a result, actuaries receive recognition, respect and rewards.

Description: question and look for ways to make improvements on things by making them more efficient and intuitive. Mehmud did not study actuarial science in school. He earned a degree in mathematics and physics while taking courses like Asian history and skeptical thinking. In retrospect, he said, his exposure to a liberal arts education allowed him to view problems with a multifaceted perspective.

Description: If you'd like to start using the SOA CPD Tracker, or if you're already using it and have questions, you may find your answers here.

Description: The SOA provides information about the actuarial career path in health care and predictive analytics. Throughout 2016, we will share more about actuaries who are tackling some of the industry's biggest challenges and hear from top employers in healthcare analytics.

Description: The collection of papers in this monograph were the result of a call for papers issued by the SOA’s Committee on Post Retirement Needs and Risks in partnership with the Long Term Care Section to explore the impact of long‐term care needs and expense on retirement security from a variety of aspects. The papers help expand thinking on how long‐term care events impact families as well as approaches to mitigating the impact of these events and related issues. As a result, this monograph provides a multi–disciplinary, textured analysis on this topic and serves to encourage future work in this area. - See more at: http://new.soa.org/news-and-publications/publications/other-publications/monographs/pub-retirement-systems-monographs.aspx?&cmsMode=Preview&langtype=1033#sthash.KVM2cSq7.dpuf

Description: The Committee on Finance Research is pleased to make available a research report that models cash flow risks and empirically analyzes cash flow risk management of insurance firms under a dynamic factor modeling framework. The report was authored by Patricia Born, Hong-Jen Lin, and Min-Ming Wen.

Description: Partnership Opportunities are a means to address needs within the organization. The SOA is looking to partner with organizations/individuals that are leading-edge, distinctive, innovative, and add something fresh and dynamic to our curriculum plan. These partnerships should raise our visibility collectively and contribute to the development of our members.

Description: This report is a summary based on current actuarial practices around the development and use of policyholder behavior assumptions including the use of dynamic modeling approaches. The research team surveyed and evaluated current practices in the industry; and highlighted current thinking on modeling human behaviors outside the life insurance industry. This project was sponsored by the SOA’s Financial Reporting Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research.

Description: Archive of the fall 2013 Foundations of Corporate Finance and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) exam.

Description: Learn step by step on how to register and schedule appointment for computer based exams.

Description: The complete 2013 ARCH table of contents.

Description: This page contains archived updates for the spring 2012 Advanced Portfolio Management (APM) Exam.

Description: Chatting with the Chair, Expanding Horizons Issue 29, June 2004

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This is the spring 2007 archived education catalog.

Description: This web page contains links to the draft research report, 'Models for Retirement Policy Analysis,' by Joseph M. Anderson of Capital Research Associates. This draft report describes existing models and data sources for projecting the effect of changes in environment on the design and cost of retirement benefit plans. It is a living document and will keep changing and evolving based on comments sent to the SOA and continuing work of the researcher. In addition, an actuarial critique of each model will be added as they become available.

Description: This is a list of links to research papers on predictive modeling.

Description: ARCH Table of Contents 2011.1

Description: Provides a listing of the various papers, with links to the complete paper, discussant comments and some abstracts, for the topics covered for the Housing in Retirement Monograph.

Description: Feature article discussing the pros and cons of insurance companies in stretch management, using dreams to set business targets with no idea how to get there.

Description: Feature article discussing the new SOA stipend awards and featuring interviews with the first recipients.

Description: Presidential address about changes in the actuarial world.

Description: Feature article discussing the SOA’s competency framework and how it provides direction for professional development.

Description: Article discussing the use of enterprise risk management in the health care industry.

Description: This is a web page containing links to papers presented at the Retirement 20/20 conference held in Washington, D.C. on November 17 & 18, 2008.

Description: This is a web page containing links to papers presented at the Retirement 20/20 conference held in Washington, D.C. on November 17 & 18, 2008.

Description: Part 2 of a six-part series on the evolution of risk management continues with this article on dynamic financial analysis.

Description: October/November 2008 Volume 5 Number 5 Bi-Monthly membership benefit magazine

Description: This is an article by outgoing Society of Actuaries President, Bruce D. Schobel, reflecting on the Society's accomplishments over the past year and looking ahead at its future plans.

Description: Interview with Mark Franzen—actuarial pioneer.

Description: A roundtable discussion about the significant changes under way for the life insurance industry in the United States due to the move to PBA.

Description: This article is an interview with ‘pioneer’ Nooruddin [Rudy] S. Karsan, FSA, one of the co–founders of Kenexa® Corp., a leading end–to–end provider of software, proprietary content, services and process outsourcing, that enable organizations to more effectively recruit and retain employees. The company was founded in 1987 and started with two employees. Today Kenexa has 1,600 employees. Karsan discusses his life and entrepreneurial career. He enjoys managing and building businesses, and the challenging opportunities, but that's just one part of his life the other is focusing on serving humanity—the two basic words, he says, that define Kenexa. From ‘The Actuary Magazine’ Volume 5 Issue 4.

Description: This article spotlights four groups that are all working to move the SOA’s strategic agenda forward.

Description: In 2006, the actuarial profession embarked on a campaign to promote itself. The marketing efforts are directed at potential employers of actuaries, particularly in broader financial services and other industries. The goal is to publicize what actuaries can contribute in these sectors through exploiting the opportunity in risk.

Description: This article describes how to help the client see that the pain of not having your product or service is greater than the pain of parting with his or her hard-earned dollars.

Description: This article examines the dynamic environment of the health care system in the United States and the challenges facing the health actuary.

Description: Article highlighting Larry Bader’s career and achievements.

Description: This is an interview with Ken Guthrie, the Society of Actuaries Senior Director of Education, regarding the new structure of the Education Department.

Description: A disscussion of actuar R, an R package for actuarial science, and its facilities in the fields of loss distribution modeling, risk theory and credibility theory.