Description: The topics of ESG (Environmental, Social & Corporate Governance) and sustainability are an increasing area of focus for insurance companies, and thus actuaries. This webcast provides a primer on these topics along with considerations for US valuation actuaries and their evolution in European insurance markets.

Description: The SOA Research Institute Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research Program and the Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Steering Committees [The Committees] are seeking researchers to investigate the impact of outdoor air quality and pollution on morbidity and mortality, with a focus on climate change including the impacts of wildfires focusing on regions where air quality has deteriorated significantly in recent history.

Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of March 2020.

Description: This research report educates the actuarial community about the various shades of the flood risk as well as the state of the art in quantitative flood risk modeling.

Description: This report examines weather extremes in precipitation, maximum water level, wind speed, and flooding associated with the time period and geographic area of Hurricane Laura over the period of August 24 to August 29, 2020.

Description: On June 29, a weather system formed in the central Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of the Cabo Verde Islands. The system intensified as it traveled in a westerly direction across the Atlantic, achieving sufficient strength to be classified as a tropical storm on July 1, whereupon it was given the name “Elsa”.

Description: Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Newsletter, December 2021

Description: Supporting Excel file for Actuarial Weather Extremes Series Michigan EF-3 Tornado: May 20, 2022 report.

Description: Supporting Excel file for Actuarial Weather Extremes Series, Tropical Storm Alex: June 4, 2022

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute commissioned a study to understand how insurers are responding to the framework used for climate disclosure practices, attempting to identify current practice and best and emerging practice. Used by firms to ensure they manage climate risk appropriately, the framework from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) focuses on disclosure of governance, risk management, strategy, and metrics.