Description: Feature article about how life insurance companies can manage the financial risk of life and annuity unclaimed property.

Description: Discusses the paper on Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, AIDS, entitled “AIDS, HIV Mortality and Life Insurance,” by Michael Cowell and Walter Hoskins, and the potential impact of AIDS on the insurance industry in North America. Also solicits comments from other SOA members about the issue.

Description: This paper represents an attempt to formulate a cohesive and consistent approach to the analysis of claim liabilities. Numerical examples are used to illustrate the methodology. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: In this paper it will be shown that the result of using the 1975-80 Select and Ultimate Table as opposed to the more modern 1990-95 Select Ultimate Table can be a significant understatement of future mortality and hence, anticipated profits may prove to be illusory.

Description: The South African life insurance industry contains the largest life insurance market in Africa, it is highly sophisticated and highly regulated. In the years 2020 and2021, the industry suffered significant mortality losses due toCovid-19. What can we learn from this experience in South Africa?

Description: The life insurance industry has experienced dramatic changes since the onset of COVID-19 in March 2020. Growing competition, a rise in online shopping, and the impact of COVID-19 have all led to an increase in contactless and completely digitized life insurance options. At Policygenius, we wanted to dig deeper into these big industry changes and better understand how they affect life insurance buyers. What our 2022 life insurance trend report found was a changing industry, making tremendous strides, and creating even better pricing and policy options for customers.

Description: The article summarizes two of the highest rated sessions sponsored by the Reinsurance Section during the 2013 SOA Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Description: The adjustment coefficient R plays an important role in mathematical ruin theory this paper presents several different methods for estimating the variance of R. Examples are given in which the variance is so high that the estimate of R must be considered essentially worthless and other means are sought for estimating ruin probabilities. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House ARCH 1990 Vol. 1.

Description: This article discusses the utilization of credibility concepts to reinsurer-cedant moratality analysis.