Description: LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute, and TAI have collaborated on an ongoing effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience and share the emerging results with the insurance industry and the public.

Description: View the 2015-18 Group Annuity Mortality Experience Report.

Description: The Predictive Modeling Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey that gathered information on behalf of the life insurance industry about the degree of the use of predictive modeling and the tools and methods used by life insurance companies to optimize results.

Description: Appendices to the 2006 Report of the SOA International Experience Survey Working Group.

Description: The COVID-19 (COVID) pandemic has increased the demand for data and analysis on the impact of COVID on U.S. population mortality. This report is based on 2020 provisional death data released by the CDC. The SOA plans to update this report after additional 2020 cause of death data in released by the CDC later in 2021.

Description: An ongoing effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience and share the emerging results with the insurance industry and the public. This report documents a high-level analysis of the claims that have been reported through September 30, 2021.

Description: Report on the results of a survey to capture the current state of preferred risk underwriting practices in the US life insurance market. This Survey was sent to Canadian and US life insurance companies that write preferred risk business in the US.

Description: The Individual Life Insurance Valuation Mortality Task Force of the Society of Actuaries has completed a new Valuation Basic Mortality Table for individual life insurance, the 2001 VBT. Link to report and tables included.

Description: The International Experience Survey/Study IES is a pilot study being conducted by the Society of Actuaries to provide actuaries with practical information on experience in emerging and other markets outside of the United States and Canada. The IES has evolved from being a survey of multi-national company experience to national studies directed by actuaries from the data contributors located in the country under study. This report follows this evolution by dividing results into two major subdivisions of results: • Survey: The survey presents high-level results that facilitate comparisons of experience between different countries. • National studies: In depth studies of experience in countries directed by local actuaries to present more comprehensive results

Description: This research project studies the post level premium period lapse and mortality assumptions and practices relative to use and development of assumptions, reinsurance, conservation and conversion options.