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

Description: The SOA Committee on Living to 100 Research Symposia is pleased to present the following essays on recent old age mortality, mortality improvement trends and social issues on aging populations.

Description: Research Sponsorship Opportunity: Post Pandemic Mortality by Generation

Description: The Retirement Plans Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries (RPEC) is pleased to present this annual update to the RPEC_2014 model and its corresponding mortality improvement scales. This new version of the model reflects historical U.S. population mortality experience through 2018. For clarity, the updated mortality improvement scale based on this 2020 version of the model is called Scale MP-2020.

Description: The SOA offers emerging research projects and reports on risk management, including research on predictive analytics, climate risk and general insurance risk.

Description: Take advantage of the actuarial modeling tools, tables and calculators brought to you by the SOA.

Description: The Joint Risk Management Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed their report on risk management practices of U.S. life insurance companies.

Description: The SOA develops and sponsors research projects and studies. The SOA seeks researchers, actuaries and other professionals to help work on projects.

Description: A paper demonstrating how to obviate the need for market timing strategies in variable annuity products by judicious use of product design. The paper presents the premise behind the product design, provides numerical examples, then explores possible extensions of the concept to produce more sophisticated variable annuity plans based on guarantees of investment outcomes.

Description: Life insurance and annuity illustrations are an important part of the sales and ongoing policy maintenance process educating consumers on how the products could perform in a given set of circumstances. While candidates for Fellowship in the Society of Actuaries and even practicing actuaries may have a general knowledge of what they are and awareness of the regulations and applicable standards of actuarial practice, they may not know much about the intricacies of illustrations and illustration testing. The purpose of this project is to create a resource to improve actuarial practitioners’ understanding of illustrations. Additionally, this topic is not currently addressed in the exam curriculum. It is intended that selected sections of the report on this research would be suitable for inclusion in the Fellowship syllabus.