Description: The purpose of this document is to inform the user of the 2021 Health Care Cost Model about the sources of data, other reports, and assumptions which were used to populate this report and drive some of the key considerations.

Description: This pension plan covers MLB players, coaches, trainers and managers. For every 43 days of active service in a season, they earn one quarter of a year of service (maximum 4 quarters per season); pension benefits are related to both service and pay.

Description: Research report describing the results of an Emerging Risks Survey conducted in 2011. The report includes comparisons to the three previous surveys as well as a survey sent to INARM members in April 2008.

Description: The CIA, SOA and Joint Risk Management Section of the CAS, CIA, and the SOA sponsored a whitepaper on the application of ERM at a federal government level.

Description: Mr. Ethan Stroh's response to the previously published letter to Mr. Arnold Shapiro regarding the distribution of collective risk theory as linear compounds.

Description: This survey is the second in a series focusing on the impacts to cash flow testing and aims to collect and disseminate information regarding best practices around the potential impact of current market conditions.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to make available a report that explores stakeholder views in Minnesota on the efficacy of a public catastrophic long-term care insurance program at the state level.

Description: The Group Life COVID-19 Mortality Survey gathers a high-level view of U.S. Group Term Life Insurance mortality results during the COVID-19 pandemic through March 2022, as compared to prior period baseline mortality results. This new report is an update to the survey report released in January 2022, which contained data through September 2021.

Description: A divisive confrontation over health care pricing is almost inevitable over the next few years. What will ultimately happen is a political decision, not an actuarial one—but it will have major consequences for the trend in health care costs and the divergence between public and private insurance premiums.

Description: Health care cost trends are a key ingredient that health care actuaries use in their practice. In collaboration with the Health Care Cost Institute (HCCI), the Society of Actuaries has put together a data extract for practicing health actuaries to be able to better understand historical trends and cost disruptors.