Description: The SOA is pleased to make available a research report providing insight and considerations for the actuarial profession in assessing the potential risk and opportunities of MACRA to both provider and payer organizations.

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

Description: This report examines the impact on risk scores in risk adjustment models when there are timing differences for model updates and risk factor mappings.

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: 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: The Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Committee is looking for research proposals to study the impact of Artificial Intelligence on any of the following elements of healthcare • Evaluate the impact on predictability of financial results • Evaluate the impact on the efficiency of care management techniques applied to members • Compare results to traditional risk adjustment and traditional methodologies of predictive analytics • Determine an overall financial impact of applying AI to identify these high cost claimants.

Description: This document is a Request for Proposals (RFP) outlining a proposal request on the impact of the U.S. drug abuse epidemic on mortality, focusing on opioids. It provides details on the background, purpose, research objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, and conditions for submitting a proposal.

Description: This data request is for a study focusing on surrender/lapse, withdrawal, living benefit utilization, annuitization, and premium deposit experiences. The study aims to provide detailed analysis and insights into fixed indexed annuity contract activities.

Description: Learn more about the predictive modeling that was applied to industry data for the lapse and mortality experience in the post-level term period. Novel approaches were taken to model the shock lapse, subsequent lapse, and mortality experience. Observe a demonstration of the Tableau tool, which was built to allow users to analyze data on their own.

Description: This is a five-day webinar targeting pre-ASA students and others who are new to modeling work. We will cover modeling basics, including model lifecycle/workflow/collaboration; data and assumptions; model limitations and simplifications; documentation and communications; and new and emerging modeling tools, including AI. Each session will include viewing a pre-recorded video, followed by group discussion. Each attendee will be asked to bring their own model to the webinar, which will be further developed through daily homework assignments.