Description: The article highlights the key components of the PBR resource manual and analyze its implications for companies' assumption management practice.

Description: Using the Internet as a Pricing Tool clinical background information, defining the change in coverage, collecting data, data quality and data limitations. Issue No. 39.

Description: An announcement of the roster of the newly reconvened Health Section Research Committee, and an invitation to propose, participate in, and read about the committee's projects. informal RFP to solicit research project ideas, invitationto join project oversight groups and

Description: Update on the SOA International experience study. The SOA has developed a new “tool” using Microsoft Access/Excel for international actuaries to conduct mortality and persistency studies in conjunction with the SOA’s international experience study initiative.

Description: This article is seeking participation from companies focused on nontraditional products and/or nontraditional distribution for the SOA Inter-Company Expense Study.

Description: A new project combining survey data from people across the country with data from John's Hopkins and the CDC on COVID cases and deaths. This project provides weekly data for individuals, businesses, and policy makers to understand which COVID mitigation efforts are in place in their area, how they are working, and how different COVID mitigation methods have been working in different parts of the country.

Description: Results of the 2005 inter-company study of expenses for individual life and annuity business conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses, CLICE.

Description: Description of methods for extracting and reformatting the existing mortality tables using R. Methods and formats for storage are discussed in the second article. Intent is to generate discussion regarding the format of our stored mortality tables. Value is in the demonstration of task automation in R and in the reduction of duplicate work across companies related to reformatting tables.

Description: The document is the "Pub-2016 Public Retirement Plans Mortality Tables Report" published in May 2025 by the Retirement Plans Experience Committee (RPEC) of the Society of Actuaries and LIMRA. It contains information on mortality tables development, data collection, annuity comparisons, and application of tables for public pension plans.

Description: This report presents research into recent population mortality experience as it pertains to development of mortality improvement assumptions for measuring obligations of retirement programs in the United States.