Description: This article identifies why insurance innovations take so much effort and digs deeper into the underlying causes. It shows and explains the importance of taking an efficient, tactical, and intentional approach when innovating to avoid over-building and over-investing.

Description: This report has been written to provide a primer on the measurement known as R0 (pronounced “R-naught”), which is commonly used in epidemiology. The R0 metric has received extensive press coverage since the outbreak due to its importance in the measurement of the spread of COVID-19.

Description: A list of research documents and reports that may be of interest to members of the SOA Financial Reporting Section.

Description: This article addresses how the ARPA has lessened the financial burden on sponsors of corporate defined benefit plans.

Description: The report looks at the different outcomes for the 50 states from the ACA, in terms of cost and availability of health insurance coverage. It identifies 11 key observations since the passage of the ACA.

Description: This is report summarizes the results of a Joint Risk Management Section sponsored study on negative interest rates and the insurance industry.

Description: A description and status update on all recent research reports sponsored by the Financial Reporting Section.

Description: The SIPF is issuing this call for essays to further explore the role of SI in providing health care coverage in the U. S. In issuing this call for essays, the SIPF aims to gather perspectives, opinions and data on the possible short and long-term consequences of current health-related SI programs and potential future ones.

Description: The purpose of this document is to inform the user of the 2022 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: Review of non public options to finance care including personal savings, revers mortgages, family care and private insurance.