Description: This report covers the latest emerging trends in U.S. population mortality. The SOA relied upon data furnished by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Observations are based on the CDC’s recent release of 2021 mortality experience, along with prior mortality experience data from 1999 through 2020.

Description: LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute, and TAI have collaborated on an ongoing effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience and share the emerging results with the insurance industry and the public. This report documents a high-level analysis of the claims that have been reported.

Description: This report provides a methodology for identifying climate regime shifts in different scenarios to prepare insurers for the impacts of climate change. It discusses physical tipping points, socio-economic tipping points, and regime shifts affecting the insurance industry, with a focus on wildfires in California and heat stress in the Pacific Northwest.

Description: This report gives an update on the Getzen Model of Long-Run Medical Cost Trends for 2025-2035+, providing insights on key considerations, input parameters, and projections. It includes observations on long-term medical cost trends, budgetary resistance, and regulatory impacts on healthcare expenditures.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Life Working Group released a recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.

Description: This report is presented in the form of a Tableau dashboard and is the sixth public release from this report series and contains the results of an excess mortality analysis for the fourth quarter of 2021. Data from 30 companies representing approximately 69% of the industry’s face amount inforce were included in the analyses in this report. A total of 3.2 million death claims from individual life policies from 2015 through December 31, 2021 make up the basis of the analyses. The report also compares the experience under COVID-19 of the insured population versus the general population.

Description: The document is a report on U.S. Population Mortality Observations updated with 2022 experience by R. Jerome Holman, FSA, MAAA. It covers mortality trends, analyses by factors like sex, age group, and cause of death, and includes methodological details for the data presented.

Description: This podcast series is an exploration of the paper “Long Term Drivers of Future Mortality” written by Yair Babad and Al Klein. The podcast aims to raise awareness of the paper's valuable insights and make it a useful resource for actuaries, underwriters, insurers, demographers, academics, economists, public health officials, and others involved in estimating future mortality trends and their implications.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee is holding a competition encouraging actuaries and other interested parties to predict 2017 industry mortality based on a data set containg 2009 - 2016 data. The competition is not only about predicting mortality, but also about explaining and presenting the results.

Description: Examines complex structured assets used by life and annuity insurers, including structures, risks, performance in crises, and implications for capital and asset-liability management.