Description: Reference Based Pricing (RBP) efforts have increased in popularity as tools to reduce the cost of care. Now with the ability to use CMS health plan transparency information, organizations can estimate the impact of savings from the use of RBP. This session will share the results of an analysis of this in the form of a case study.

Description: This document discusses the comparison of lifetables generated using classic demographic techniques and the Human Mortality Database method protocol for socioeconomic deciles from 1982 to 2022. It explains differences in estimation methods, calculation steps for lifetables, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and a comparison of lifetable values.

Description: The SOA Research Institute along with the Corporate Finance & Enterprise Risk Management Curriculum Committee, Financial Reporting Section, and Individual Life & Annuity Curriculum Committee are pleased to make available a research report that aids students and practitioners with their understanding of the rating agencies as they affect the insurance industry.

Description: Learn more about improving the modelling of individual decisions.

Description: This is the User's Guide that accompanies the Inflation Generator Excel spreadsheet which is associated with the research report entitled 'The Effect of Deflation or High Inflation on the Insurance Industry.'

Description: Government credit programs are intended to meet various social and economic objectives. By providing more favorable terms than are available from private lenders, credit programs assist borrowers, including some who could not obtain funds otherwise. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Chapter 4 of the Price, Waterhouse study presents and extensive collection of numerical tables. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: Chapter 6 presents a listing of sources used in the Price, Waterhouse study. From Study of Public Financial Guarantee Programs, M-FI96-2.

Description: This report summarizes a study that estimates the total economic burden of the opioid crisis in the United States from 2015 through 2018 and projects future costs of the opioid epidemic for 2019.

Description: Investment opportunities are driven by events in the economy and how participants in the financial markets react to those events. This keynote address will highlight current economic themes and their impact on investment opportunities.