Description: This document is a study report by the Mortality Improvement Analysis Subgroup of the Society of Actuaries, outlining a methodology for estimating mortality improvement factors based on data from insured lives. The report details challenges, methodology, results, comparisons with population data, limitations, and potential improvements.

Description: View and download the program book for the 2024 APAC Symposium.

Description: Review the ERM Case Study for Fall 2024.

Description: Review the RETDAU Exam for Spring 2024.

Description: Review the RETDAC Exam for Spring 2024.

Description: Review the ILALAM Exam for Spring 2024.

Description: Review the GIFREU Exam for Spring 2024.

Description: Review the CFESDM Exam for Spring 2024.

Description: The Asian insurance landscape is undergoing significant change, with Japan experiencing a surge in reinsurance activity. This webcast will explore the factors driving this growth and provide insights into the current state and future direction of the Japanese reinsurance market. We'll delve into the unique characteristics of the Japanese market, examining the specific reinsurance needs of Japanese life insurers and how partnerships with US and offshore reinsurers are evolving. Looking ahead, we'll analyze the expected trajectory of the market, including the types of business and products likely to see increased demand. We'll also discuss how emerging economic factors and regulatory changes will shape future needs and the competitive landscape. Join us to gain valuable insights into this dynamic market and its future potential.

Description: Review the syllabus for the Fall 2024 Life ALM and Modeling (ILALAM) Exam.

Description: Review the syllabus for the Fall 2024 Strategic Decision Making (CFESDM) Exam.

Description: Review the syllabus for the Fall 2024 Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Exam.

Description: Review the syllabus for the Fall 2024 Quantitative Finance and Investment Quantitative Finance (QFIQF) Exam.

Description: Review the course overview study note for the Fall 2024 Foundations of Corporate Finance and ERM (CFEFD) Exam.

Description: Review the syllabus for the Fall 2024 Quantitative Finance and Investment Portfolio Management (QFIPM) Exam.

Description: The article discusses the critical role of Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) within insurance companies, particularly amidst changes in accounting regimes like USGAAP Long-Duration Targeted Improvements (LDTI) and International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS) 17 and implications of these changes on FP&A activities.

Description: In the evolving realm of healthcare actuarial practice, value-based contracts are reshaping the landscape. This article explores the pivotal role of AI-enhanced Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) in empowering actuaries to navigate this dynamic sector. Despite challenges in data standardization, AI-enhanced EMRs offer a solution by extracting and standardizing diverse medical records. The article delineates how AI-EMR integration benefits actuaries and provider organizations, enabling more accurate forecasting, earlier shared savings prepayments, and real-time quality metric aggregation. Moreover, it discusses how this fusion addresses historical data limitations, can help project catastrophic claims, and can help identify risk score capture opportunities. Ultimately, it indicates the transformative potential of AI-EMR synergy, positioning actuaries at the forefront of healthcare analytics with unprecedented precision and insight.

Description: The article explores how integrating AI into insurer apps can address critical challenges in healthcare, such as patient no-shows, medication adherence, and cost management. These non-disruptive approaches aim to increase the effectiveness of patient interventions and improve medication adherence.

Description: Review the archived Spring 2024 FSA Exam Book List

Description: This report focuses on the risks of change in the insurance industry and adapting to the "New" New Normal. It includes survey results, analysis, and discussions on various risks affecting the industry in the current environment.

Description: An interview with Weili Lu, the president of ARIA

Description: Stefanos Orfanos shares his perspective and priorities for this year as the incoming chair of the SOA Education and Research Section.

Description: View the Effectiveness of Health and Wellness Programs Report

Description: Read this report, which is part of the series "Understanding and Managing Post-Retirement Risks", to learn more about the perspective of the individual with respects to long-term care, caregiving, and housing issues.

Description: Latest in series of articles exploring the adaptation of Buddhist philosophy to actuarial practice. This installment examines the challenges for actuaries in dealing with pain points in actuarial work, and how to best manage these forces so that the work remains aligned with professional standards.

Description: To provide high level information on a book selected and discussed during the December book club session, The Ten Commandments of Risk Leadership. In addition, this article serves as a promotion of the SOA book club as well as the upcoming sessions.

Description: List of sessions and presenters.

Description: Risk management techniques do not include system science. System science requires that the uncertainty of the world is incorporated into the results. The articles explains the difference between risk and uncertainty. Learn how risk practices create an overoptimistic view of future outcomes.

Description: This report provides actuaries and other professionals working with risk, data and analytics or program evaluation in the health care space with considerations and frameworks related to the use of determinants of health (DOH) in data and actuarial work streams. Such frameworks can leverage new data sources to enrich health care data analysis to move beyond traditional data elements, such as age, gender, zip code or health diagnosis.

Description: The landscape of the reinsurance industry is evolving amid profound changes in the insurance sector. Innovation is vital for reinsurers as risks become more complex and insurers transition from a role of "protection" to "prevention." Successful reinsurers are responding to market dynamics, particularly through open innovation – collaboration with startups.

Description: Review the ILA LPM Solutions for Fall 2023.

Description: Review the QFI QF Solutions Fall 2023.

Description: Review the ILA LAM Solutions for Fall 2023.

Description: Review the RET RPIRM Solutions for Fall 2023.

Description: Review the QFI PM Solutions Fall 2023.

Description: Review the CFE SDM Solutions for Fall 2023.

Description: Join actuarial professionals and thought-leaders to uncover new insights and valuable opportunities at the 2024 SOA Virtual ImpACT Conference, taking place November 13-14.

Description: The article discusses the continued popularity of indexed UL insurance and possible reasons why a company's actual indexed UL earnings may be below their original pricing expectations for the product. The article discusses several key items that may be the source of that underperformance (e.g., hedge ineffectiveness, policyholder behavior) and the need to monitor earnings and perform analyses to better understand those potential sources.

Description: This article delves into the transformative realm of Business Intelligence (BI) tools. We explore the fundamental functionality and structure of these tools, and through case studies illustrate how they offer valuable insights into carrier experience and underwriting dynamics. From real-time data visualization to in-depth data analysis, discover the essential features that empower businesses to make better informed decisions.

Description: Read this report to learn more about interpretable machine learning techniques for health insurance fraud detection.

Description: This is a continuation of an article published for the speculative future contest in 2023. It mentions how the collapse of China would cause a global recession in 2029 due to the current and predicted geopolitical climate in 2023.

Description: Learn more about improving the modelling of individual decisions.

Description: Learn more about the concept of total risk analysis, which is designed to answer key questions as decisions are made.

Description: This article is the result of the Leadership & Development book club on Dare Lead. The article talks about major themes in the book and relates them to other podcasts and authors thought on those themes.