Description: This report identifies and makes recommendations regarding possible exposure measures for pricing and analyzing the risks in cyber insurance. Cyber insurance is an insurance product that is designed to provide protection against the financial consequences of a failure or compromise of an organization’s information system as a result of a cyber event.

Description: The SOA Research Institute is seeking researchers to study the application of geospatial imagery, high-resolution imagery, and artificial intelligence in loss estimate analytics and underwriting within the insurance industry.

Description: Are you interested in discovering key characteristics and the market landscape in the finance industry? Do you want to learn more about decentralized finance (DeFi) with its opportunities, challenges and alternatives? Join us for the Decentralized Finance - Emerging Risks and Opportunities webcast. DeFi is an emerging financial system and its alternatives are a rapidly expanding sector. DeFi alternatives are regarded as an integral part to the support of the this developing ecosystem. Come to this rebroadcast of a webinar completed in Asia back in September where panelists explore DeFi risks and listen to a proposal of the risk classification framework. There is also a live Q&A afterwards.

Description: The personal auto insurance industry is constantly changing. There are small and steady changes over time (e.g., inflation affecting the cost of repairs or general progress in the safety of vehicles) and sharp spikes (e.g., disasters and legislation). That change has never been more apparent with the Covid-19 pandemic, civil unrest, and driverless cars all presently having a significant impact on personal auto insurance.

Description: In this paper, we propose a novel class of propagation models to study the cybersecurity risks in fog computing cased IoT architectures, which are significantly different from the quantitative frameworks used in the existing cyber-related works within actuarial literature.

Description: Personal Injury Protection (PIP) pays for post-collision medical expenses regardless of who was at fault. It is only available in certain states

Description: A non-technical review of two recent general insurance articles published in the SOA's North American Actuarial Journal. The articles reviewed analyze Pay-As-You-Drive Insurance and Usage-Based Insurance.

Description: This report proposes a methodology to isolate crop yield improvement due to technological change and favorable and unfavorable weather.

Description: Feature articles discussing the risks created by climate change.