Description: This report is intended to serve as a guide to the InsurTech landscape for the actuarial community and insurance practitioners. InsurTech is the use of emerging hardware, software and user interfaces to address inefficiencies or opportunities in the insurance value chain. It often involves technology, data and analytics.

Description: In April of 2023, the SOA Research Institute assembled an industry expert panel to discuss current issues in actuarial technology. This was the fourth time such a panel was assembled, and most panelists had participated in the previous discussions.

Description: The journey for microinsurance, nowadays called inclusive insurance, started a long time ago and is not complete in the majority of the low-income and low middle-income markets. When seeking to enhance inclusive insurance markets, it is useful and necessary to have a good understanding because it entails a different treatment of customers, distribution, products, pricing, client management, premium collection, claims declaration and settlement, and reporting.

Description: InsureTech Connect 2021, covered r emerging trends that were and future opportunities for insurance technology. In addition, Society of Actuaries (SOA) staff and key SOA volunteers who work in the insurtech industry interviewed a variety of attendees to gather further information on these trends.

Description: The Aging and Retirement and Actuarial Innovation and Technology Strategic Research Programs are pleased to make available a report that provides a sampling of new financial technologies (fintech) and their applications related to retirement savings systems affecting participants, plan sponsors and service providers.

Description: The InsurTech New York conference was held on March 28-29, 2023. The Conference theme was Partnerships, Claims and Underwriting. Current market conditions are such that funding shrank significantly as reported by Gallagher Re, with 2021 record annual funding of $15.80 billion dropping to $7.98 billion in 20222. With such reality in mind, this report highlights what we collected from attending pre-conference events and sessions at InsurTech, while networking with peers, industry experts and startups over the two-day event.