Description: As part of its ongoing effort to provide useful information on COVID-19, the Society of Actuaries issued a brief qualitative survey to its Retirement Section members to gain insight as to how COVID-19 is impacting the retirement programs and organizations they support, and also how it is impacting their work. The survey results are intended to help members compare their thinking and future expectations of COVID-19 with their peers, as well as inform future research efforts.

Description: 1956 Transactions of the SOA, Volume 8. These are the meeting minutes from the Annual Meeting held in White Sulphur Springs, WV on November 12-14, 1956.

Description: 1956 Transactions of the SOA, Volume 8. This is the index for papers published in Volume 8 of Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956.

Description: These are abstracts of the following papers: 1. 'DISCONTINUITY AT THE BOUNDARY' by Beda Chan. 2. 'ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BALDUCCI AND UDD.' by Murray Silver. 3. 'PROBLEMS IN AND A SYLLABUS FOR DEMOGRAPHY' by John A. Beckman. 4. 'A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO YIELDS UNDER VARYING INVESTMENT CONDITIONS' by A. Spedding. 5. 'COUNTERPART EXPOSURE FORMULAS UNDER THE BALDUCCI AND UNIFORM DEATHS ASSUMPTIONS' by H. J. Boom. 6. 'DUALITY BETWEEN UNIFORM DEATHS AND BALDUCCI ASSUMPTIONS' by Elias S. W. Shiu. 7. 'RECENTLY PUBLISHED U.K. MORTALITY TABLES, METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, AND POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS THEREFROM' by J. J. McCutcheon. From ACTUARIAL RESEARCH CLEARING HOUSE, 1980 VOL. 2.

Description: This discussion is about the actuarial profession. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961 Vol. 13 Pt. 2.

Description: This research study aims to understand the current and planned use of various technology types and tools and to highlight those technologies that are anticipated to grow the fastest among actuaries in 2019.

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

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute released an updated report summarizing current issues regarding actuarial technology. In March 2022, for a second time, the SOA Research Institute gathered a panel of insurance industry experts for an update on current actuarial technology topics to help identify directions for future research efforts. This report summarizes their discussions on the Actuarial operating model, technology risk and open-source software.

Description: The aim of this research is to survey emerging data analytics techniques and discuss their evolution and growing use in the actuarial profession. Data analytics’ applications in life and non-life insurance will also be provided.

Description: This study develops mortality ratios, using contemporary population tables and standard industry tables as the base of expected deaths, for 3,037 members 2,811 Fellows and 226 Associates of the Society of Actuaries observed from January 1, 1955 through December 31, 2004.