Description: The SOA is honored to announce the three essays that were selected as winners for this year’s Young Actuaries in Asia Essays on Societal Impact.

Description: The objectives of this paper are: 1. To show why scientific laws of mortality are preferable to the continued use of graduation techniques on mortality tables. 2. To develop a new theory leading to a new mathematical law of mortality that reduces to Gompertz's law as a first approximation. 3. To demonstrate an understanding of select mortality and produce a simple formula that is reasonably consistent with it. 4. To develop methods to test this and other similar formulas on various bodies of data to establish their validity and usefulness. 5. To discuss the meaning of the results and provide some examples of the use of the formula for purposes other than graduation. 6. To discuss extensions of the models. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This report covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1972 and 1973 anniversaries, and also for the period between 1968 and 1973 anniversaries where one year's exposure provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to life insurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

Description: Part I of a four-part series on insurance product regulations around the world. Provides a good high-level summary of the regulations as of 2002.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] latest trends in mortality and regulatory environment applicable to mortality tables, [2] turnover assumptions, and [3] Actuarial Standards of Practice [ASOPs] that apply to the choosing and setting of demographic assumptions. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 63PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: This presentation is a panel discussion, session number 33PD, from the 2002 Valuation Actuary Symposium, held September 19-20 in Lake Buena Vista, FL. The panelists provide an update of the 2002 progress made by the International Accounting Standards Board [IASB] in moving to a type of fair-value reporting as presented in the IASB’s draft statement of position on insurance accounting. The panelists then present arguments supporting and opposing fair-value reporting, including comparison with U.S. GAAP accounting. Discussion from participants is included.

Description: This tool created graphs of Google's mobility Data. This version of the tool contains state-level U.S. data through July 31, 2020

Description: The Financial Accounting Standards Board has developed a data bank containing information about pensions and changing prices, extracted from 1,100 companies’ annual reports.

Description: There have been many areas of change in the annuity market. Focus on product changes, market evolution and emerging behavior and mortality experience for annuity products. Explore lessons from the VA and FIA markets based on data from industry experience studies and potential implications on new product development. Investigate emerging regulatory requirements affecting annuities, such as VM-22, LDTI, and regulation best Interest rules, as well as how they may impact product development.