Description: Read the August 2020 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: This is the ninth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 16 US life insurance companies.

Description: This report summarizes industry mortality experience for the period 2009 - 2016. This report is updated on a mostly annual basis and based on information aggregated from industry VM-51 submissions

Description: Situated at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, sociology, and economics, behavioral economics (BE) centers on applying an honest understanding of human behavior to practical problems. This report is designed to provide general familiarity to the reader interested in the subject of BE and motivate additional research on the topic.

Description: Panelists will discuss considerations identified and the challenges encountered by companies in developing and using predictive models in the life insurance underwriting process.

Description: A recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Smaller Company Forum, which took place at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. It summarizes the comments made by and identifies each individual contributing to the discussion. The discussion topics include measures a smaller company can take to reduce the expense of printing and preparing policy forms, at what stage in a company's growth is it advisable to shift from manual to machine accounting processes, and whether quality rating selection methods are achieving satisfactory results. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: This web page describes the new 2013 Survey of Lapse and Mortality Experience report.

Description: This report presents the compilation of data received from life companies responding to a survey on preferred risk underwriting and provides opinions of the Task Force on Preferred Underwriting with respect to future trends.

Description: Read the July 2020 issue of NewsDirect published by the Marketing & Distribution Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.