Description: This paper provides an overview of deductible ratemaking , and the pros and cons of various approaches under different parametric models are compared

Description: This issue brief focuses on the importance of analyzing the pros and cons of taking a lump sum or monthly annuity payments upon retirement from the workforce.

Description: Statistics about the NHL players' pension plan funded status.

Description: This report studies the interrelationships between the general levels of unemployment in the economy and the sale and persistency of insurance products. The report explores whether insurance products have reduced sales and persistency as the level of unemployment increased in a given economic environment.

Description: Compares discount rates for computing pension plan liabilities for funding purposes across single employer, multiemployer and public pension plans in the U.S.

Description: Statistics about funded status of the National Hockey League Players' Retirement Benefit Plan.

Description: The report examines various benchmarks for analyzing option adjusted spreads of the major fixed income asset classes of life insurance companies.

Description: This research report on the ability to influence annuity purchases found the following contrast: • Pre-retirees’ intentions to buy a life income annuity appear to be impacted by the interventions tested in this research. There were stronger effects when pre-retirees were provided with basic information, such as life expectancy, and anecdotal evidence. • Retirees’ annuity purchase intentions do not appear to be impacted by the interventions used in the study.

Description: The SOA’s research objective is to provide guidance to state exchange officials and administrators, federal officials and administrators, and actuaries assisting states and health plans. The goal of the project is to estimate the morbidity and/or cost for newly insured individuals in the individual market (and to some degree, the small group exchange) relative to the morbidity and/or cost for the current commercially insured population. This analysis will primarily focus on the individual, non-group market. In order to plan for the impact that these currently uninsured individuals will have on the health insurance markets, it will be important to understand their costs relative to the costs for people already enrolled, for whom many health insurers have experience and data.

Description: This is the final report of a survey of life insurance companies on the cost of implementing the new principle-based statutory accounting framework.