Description: The information assembled here has been collected by the SOA ambassadors, and is meant to provide you with a window into the condition and practice of insurance in the host country.

Description: The information assembled here has been collected by the SOA ambassadors, and is meant to provide you with a window into the condition and practice of insurance in the host country.

Description: The SOA is honored to announce the three essays that were selected as winners for this year’s Young Actuaries in Asia Essays on Societal Impact.

Description: Tools for the small company actuary to deal with current topics and issues.

Description: VM-20 represents a major change in how reserves will be computed for new business, including computation of a stochastic reserve, a deterministic reserve and a Net Premium Reserve (NPR). There are optional exclusion tests which, if passed, allow companies to exclude groups of policies from the stochastic calculation and potentially from the deterministic reserve calculation. Because of the availability of the exclusion tests, some have concluded that the most likely policies to be affected by VM-20 are Universal Life with Secondary Guarantees (ULSG) and Competitive Term.

Description: This document is a Request for Proposals (RFP) published by the SOA Research Institute, seeking comprehensive research to evaluate insurance coverage for chronic conditions in China, focusing on critical illness morbidity rates and potential benefits of innovative insurance product designs. The RFP outlines research objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, and conditions for research funding.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are experience studies, such as individual life with a focus on persistency.

Description: One of the many resources that the SOA offers for download are experience studies, such as pension reports and mortality tables.

Description: The Predictive Analytics (PA) Exam applies statistical modeling and data analytics techniques to solve business problems. The exam covers data manipulation and analysis, predictive modeling, model validation, and communication of results.

Description: View information on the Health Economics Module.