Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) engaged RGA Reinsurance Company (RGA) to undertake a research project on Canadian level premium term life insurance products with a particular focus on the magnitude and impact of the “shock lapse” at the end of the level premium period. This project is similar to the SOA-sponsored research completed by RGA for U.S. term plans in 2010 and updated September 2013 and May 2014.

Description: 2021 Election Questionnaire

Description: This report summarizes the major findings from the 14th (2020) emerging risk survey.

Description: Insurance companies are operating in a fast and ongoing technological and consumer transformation environment. Over the past decades, there have been tremendous advancements in technology and one of them is cloud computing

Description: Access to big, non-traditional data has, is, and will affect every industry in the market, as well as usher in a few new ones. In insurance, access to big data means the relationship between insurers and their customers is increasingly complex and intimate. On the positive side, this encourages insurers to innovate and find ways to deliver value across the customer lifecycle. However, it also invites questions of privacy, transparency, and what constitutes taking data access ‘too far.’

Description: Human health is largely dependent on environmental health. This report seeks not to price all ecosystem services but to understand and begin to quantify the functions that promote human health through the increased morbidity and mortality cost in the face of environmental degradation.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Finance Research is pleased to make available a research report that develops a framework for applying deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques to optimal dynamic strategic asset allocation for Liability Driven Investment (LDI).

Description: A listing of all editorial content in the January 2010 issue of the Technology Section newsletter, CompAct.

Description: Introduces new co-editor Eddie Smith and includes letters to the editor.

Description: Discusses the benefits of using the Instapaper application to manage and retrieve web articles.