Description: This report summarizes the major findings from the 14th (2020) emerging risk survey.

Description: Insurance companies are operating in a fast and ongoing technological and consumer transformation environment. Over the past decades, there have been tremendous advancements in technology and one of them is cloud computing

Description: Access to big, non-traditional data has, is, and will affect every industry in the market, as well as usher in a few new ones. In insurance, access to big data means the relationship between insurers and their customers is increasingly complex and intimate. On the positive side, this encourages insurers to innovate and find ways to deliver value across the customer lifecycle. However, it also invites questions of privacy, transparency, and what constitutes taking data access ‘too far.’

Description: Human health is largely dependent on environmental health. This report seeks not to price all ecosystem services but to understand and begin to quantify the functions that promote human health through the increased morbidity and mortality cost in the face of environmental degradation.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Committee on Finance Research is pleased to make available a research report that develops a framework for applying deep learning and reinforcement learning techniques to optimal dynamic strategic asset allocation for Liability Driven Investment (LDI).

Description: This survey attempts to track the thoughts of risk managers about emerging risks across time. It is the 14th survey of emerging risks sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and Society of Actuaries (SOA). The researcher thanks the Financial Reporting and Reinsurance Sections for their financial support, and the Joint Risk Management Section for logistics and governance.

Description: This report examines weather conditions for daily maximum and minimum temperature (TMAX and TMIN), inland storm activity from wind, hail and tornadoes, record precipitation, tropical cyclone activity and the resultant flooding.

Description: Comparison of life expediencies in 2020 from various mortality tables