Description: The webpage with the definition and the mortality tables for simplified issue business developed by the Society of Actuaries and the Academy of Actuaries.

Description: This Society of Actuaries, working with LIMRA, Oliver Wyman and the American Council of Life Insurers, is releasing a series of pulse surveys aimed at obtaining a quick read on how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting insurance companies and reinsurers.

Description: A Brief covering the impact of COVID-19 on mental health.

Description: A report analyzing the cost of care for deceased cancer patients over the last six months of life.

Description: The aim of this project has three aspects: (1) providing a comprehensive literature review on telematics car driving data analytics; (2) developing various visual tools and a data cleaning procedure for telematics data; and (3) extracting risk factors from individual trips and improving classic classification ratemaking models with those risk factors.

Description: The Chinese insurance market is grappling with product innovation, business growth and regulatory oversight as it tries to keep pace with a sharp growth in demand across product segments. In this context, the authors have highlighted insurance trends in China, based on available research and literature, with a particular focus on topics that will drive the enterprise risk management (ERM) function of insurance companies. ERM provides an opportunity for insurers to identify and mitigate potential insurance risks by enhancing their policies and risk management activities. This report explores the insurance trends in detail, drawing on findings from interviews of practitioners in the Chinese market, to provide context for the drivers of ERM transformation.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and the Retirement Income Institute, a project of the Alliance for Lifetime Income, are partnering to explore ideas and thoughts on identifying current and alternative means of achieving and measuring retirement income adequacy. In issuing this call for essays, the organizations aim to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective retirement planning to assist individuals, actuaries, financial advisors, employers and other stakeholders.

Description: Quarterly list of trending experience studies and research.

Description: This is a request for proposals document from the Society of Actuaries Research Institute seeking researchers to quantify mortality and morbidity impacts from climate risks. It provides background, purpose, research objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, and conditions for the research project.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute (SOA) is interested in collecting thoughts and perspectives on specific opportunities for avoiding or mitigating potential unwanted bias in the products and processes associated with life and annuity insurance processes. Results of this call for essays are intended to meet two objectives: (1) Increase awareness of the potential for unwanted bias that may exist in a specific process, part of process, or method that may currently be used in any point along the entire product value chain for life or annuity insurance products; and (2) Offer methods, techniques, procedures, or approaches for eliminating or reducing the likelihood that unwanted bias could exist in that specific process, part of a process, or method.