Description: A description of current council member areas of responsibility, Life & Annuity Symposium sessions to be sponsored, and other future projects.

Description: This is the second article in a two-part series examining the potential value to companies of implementing a company profitability and risk dashboard.

Description: Read the March 2017 issue of Small Talk published by Smaller Insurance Company Section. Practical information on trends that impact sections and activities.

Description: The financial sector should provide financial security and allocate capital well. As its preeminent professionals actuaries have particular responsibilities.

Description: A discussion on how to use data visualization for model controls.

Description: Summary of the NAIC and SOA's PBR Survey.

Description: Update on IASB Activities during the last quarter of 2016.

Description: March 2017 issue of The Stepping Stone by Leadership & Development Section. practical information for actuaries, trends that impact section, section activities.

Description: Proposes an approach to develop dynamic assumptions for living benefits using a combination of available experience data and predictive modeling techniques.

Description: A question from a reading regarding the accuracy of a comment from the December 2016 issue of The Financial Reporter article titled “Negative GAAP Term Insurance Reserves—to Floor or Not to Floor?”

Description: A discussion of the FASB's Sept. 29, 2016 issued exposure draft on targeted improvements to accounting for long- duration insurance contracts.

Description: This policy brief discusses the United Kingdom’s Flood Reinsurance Pool.

Description: This policy brief provides background on the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act.

Description: This policy brief examines the state of the public finance system for residential property catastrophe risk in Florida.

Description: This discussion paper provides a detailed discussion of the operation of the Terrorism Risk Insurance program.

Description: From June 4-8, 2018 the German Actuarial Organization (DAV) in conjunction with the International Actuarial Association (IAA) will host the 31st International Congress of Actuaries (ICA) in Berlin. Actuaries, scientist and practitioners from around the world are encouraged to participate in shaping the program by submitting relevant, leading-edge ideas, research results and insights that will expand and grow the current body of actuarial knowledge.

Description: View the Quantitative Finance and Investment Core Formula Sheet Spring 2017.

Description: View the Exam ERM Case Study.

Description: Paper by Max Rudolph for the SOA on historical views on systemic risk and its applications.

Description: Read the February 2017 issue of Taxing Times published by the The Taxation Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This research report is a summary of an online survey and follow-up discussions with survey respondents on the current state of actuarial modeling controls within U. S. and Canadian life insurance and annuity companies. The current state was then compared to the results from the 2012 survey on this topic to examine the evolution in actuarial model controls and governance. The report also provides an industry assessment and proposes considerations for enhancing the current state towards a well-controlled governance framework.

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: Read the January 2017 issue of International News published by the International Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Briefing about recent activity of the International Section Council Members and initiatives

Description: Comments on Robert North’s paper, a real case study of disclosing MVL in a public employee retirement system.

Description: This is a nested stochastic modeling for insurance companies research report that's sponsored by the Financial Reporting and Modeling Sections and Committee on Life Insurance Research. Stochastic modeling is commonly used by financial reporting actuaries whenever financial reporting procedures such as reserving and capital requirement calculation, are performed under various economic scenarios, which are stochastically determined.

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: View this Spring 2017 Introductory Study Note.

Description: A summary of Modeling Section-sponsored sessions at the 2016 Life/Annuity Symposium, covering model risk management, model governance, and model efficiency.

Description: A discussion of areas of AAT where the Actuary uses a considerable degree of discretion and judgment and guidance is limited.

Description: This article describes how to model variable annuities using a GPU along with some of the stumbling blocks.

Description: This article explores the methods of determining the optimal timing for risk management projects.

Description: This article walks through the process of building a cluster model using off-the-shelf software.

Description: December 2016 edition of The Financial Reporter

Description: Read the December 2016 issue of Risk Management published by the Joint Risk Management Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Read the December 2016 issue of The Modeling Platform published by the Modeling Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article is the first installment of a three-part series and is focused on providing an overview of LTC modeling approaches and considerations.

Description: A brief overview of modeling bonds and mortgages

Description: This paper investigates techniques for the assessment of model error in the context of insurance risk analysis.

Description: The speaker of this session will provide a bottom up analysis and categorization of the $200 billion of volatility control funds related investments while recapping volatility control fund trading around volatility spikes (including Aug. 2015 and June 2016). The assessment of potential market impact of the volatility control funds’ rebalancing activity will also be discussed.

Description: The speaker of this session will discuss some common difficulties one encounters when dealing with exotic equity linked derivatives. In particular, a study of a Monthly Sum Cap (MSC) will be presented. Pricing issues, along with dynamic hedging, as well as projections of MSC into the future will also be discussed. Time permitting, some aspects of historical performance will also be addressed

Description: List of data analytics resources.

Description: View the Spring 2017 Quantitative Finance and Investment – Core Exam Syllabi.

Description: View the 2017 Foundations of Corporate Finance and ERM exam study note.

Description: View the Spring 2017 Quantitative Finance Investment Advanced Exam Syllabi.

Description: Spring 2017 General Insurance Financial and Regulatory Environment–US Exam Syllabi

Description: View the Spring 2017 Individual Life and Annuity Life Risk Management Exam Syllabi.

Description: View the Spring 2017 Foundations of CFE Exam Syllabi.

Description: View the Spring 2017 ERM – Enterprise Risk Management Exam Syllabi.

Description: Applications of Stress Testing

Description: This article covers the importance of a system peer review within the systems change control process and offers suggestions for creating more robust controls.

Description: The excess capacity that has triggered structural reinsurance market shifts has companies focusing on uninsured and underinsured exposures to tackle the issue.

Description: Read the November 2016 issue of The Actuary of the Future published by the Actuary of the Future Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Read the November 2016 issue of Product Matters! published by the Product Development Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: Joe Wurzburger, Staff Fellow at the SOA, shares his views and insights about the health care industry in general and the Health Section's role in particular.

Description: Read the November 2016 issue of Health Watch published by the Health Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

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

Description: Download a listing of resources for actuaries who want to learn about behavioral economics. Resources have been compiled by the SOA's Health Section Behavioral Finance Subgroup

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: Results of the PBITT Working Group annual VA survey.

Description: This report considers a hybrid portfolio that combines life and general insurance aspects.

Description: This report studies the interrelationships between the general levels of unemployment in the economy and the sale and persistency of insurance products. The report explores whether insurance products have reduced sales and persistency as the level of unemployment increased in a given economic environment.

Description: This SOA report provides an overview and analysis of the mortality models, theories and trends contained in the papers presented at the past four international Living to 100 symposia.

Description: A report that identifies issues based on feedback and lessons learned from companies mid PBA implementation, including going from implementation to production.

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: This predictive Modeling and Analytics Call for Essays is a collection of articles giving insights into how actuaries use predictive analytics in their work.