Description: Article discussing the SOA’s plans for growth.

Description: This article highlights the activities of the SOA and its newest retirement issues report, 'The Phases of Retirement and Planning for the Unexpected.' It describes the three separate phases or stages of retirement.

Description: State Medicaid programs have broad flexibility to establish their own payment methodologies and rates for hospital services. Many states direct additional funding to populations, services, and hospitals where Medicaid comprises a disproportionate share of total business, or where there are other access concerns (e.g. rural providers). Actuaries can play a key role in determining where those additional funds would have the most benefit.

Description: A panel of leading reinsurance executivesprovide perspective on topics to include market capacity, cell and gene therapy, COVID-19's impact on results, syndication arrangements, mergers and acquisitions, and how reinsurers view a variety of risk transfer opportunities.

Description: The Modeling Section, Predictive Analytics and Futurism Section, Committee on Life Insurance Research, Product Development Section and Reinsurance Section releases a report that can help to educate actuaries on how best to implement predictive modeling into relevant areas of actuarial practice. This report includes a review of existing literature and current industry practices, as well as a comprehensive set of considerations for predictive modeling in insurance applications.

Description: This report covers credit risk loss experience during the period 2003 through 2015 on non-Rule 144A private placement securities (and, with limited exceptions, some specific types of Rule 144A bonds) held by participating companies of the life insurance industry.

Description: Top Actuarial Technologies of 2022-2023 provides updates on the current and planned uses of various technology types and tools, highlights those technologies expected to grow the fastest among actuaries in the next 12 months, and assesses the status of adoption versus expectations from 2019.

Description: Initiated by the Product Development Section, this report examines global product development (PD) practices of life insurance and annuity companies.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and Financial Finesse are creating a series of briefs focused on retirement literacy issues.

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