Description: This paper explores how molecular biology, specifically epigenetics, may impact the life insurance industry, and considers the effects of utilizing epigenetic biomarkers for underwriting.

Description: This report examines the adoption and challenges of predictive analytics in life and annuity reinsurance, including current practices, regulatory context, and advanced AI applications.

Description: Award-winning essays on addressing unwanted bias in life and annuity insurance processes.

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute sent companies a survey in May of 2019 on mortality improvement practices. Note this survey was completed prior to the onset of COVID-19, so that issue was not addressed in this survey. The purpose of the survey was to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to life insurance and annuity pricing and financial projections in both the U.S. and Canada.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Model, MIM-2021- V3. Different mortality projection methodologies are utilized by actuaries across applications and practice areas. As a result, the MIM Advisory Group (“Advisory Group”) developed a single framework to serve as a consistent base for practitioners in projecting mortality improvement.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) has partnered with LIMRA and the American Council of Life Insurance (ACLI) to conduct a series of ‘sprint’ surveys on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and its potential impacts on the U.S. life insurance industry. This report contains a summary of the results of the second survey on best practices in monitoring and modeling the potential impact of COVID-19 mortality on life insurance industry claims.

Description: The goal of this survey is to collect and disseminate information on best practices around sales and the issuance of new business. This is a follow up to a similar survey fielded in April of this year and seeks to update participants regarding changes in practices and viewpoints since April.

Description: 2009 - 2016 ILEC Mortality Report Appendices

Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefit Utilization Study. This study is an annual update of earlier investigations conducted since 2006.

Description: This report examines options for analyzing periodic changes in VM-20 reserve amounts.