Description: The Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee is pleased to present a new report summarizing the work accomplished under the 2019 research grant supporting the Human Mortality Database (HMD) team. The work was divided between two main projects: 1) the continuous development of the United States Mortality Database (USMDB) and 2) the publication of cause-specific mortality series for selected HMD countries.

Description: Despite the advent of COVID-19, autonomous vehicle (AV) market leaders continued to invest in technology and to establish partnerships with vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This report provides a 2021 update on autonomous vehicles.

Description: Research paper that was the result of an invitation by the SOA's Pension Section Research Committee PSRC to explore the adequacy of the current and future supplies of high-quality long-term bonds in Canada, the U.S., and other countries to meet the future needs and obligations of defined benefit retirement systems.

Description: Examines the mortality experience of charitable annuities and compares the mortality rates of the beneficiaries to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table Basic. The analysis includes mortality by sex, duration, age and type of charitable organization.

Description: This project took advantage of new opportunities provided by the ongoing revolution in information technology, computer science and Internet expansion for smaller studies of exceptional human longevity and possible predictors of such longevity.

Description: The following paper, authored by Brian A. Jones and copyrighted in 2008, was the result of an invitation by the SOA's Pension Section Research Team to explore the current state of defined benefit plans in Canada and future visions of them.

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: 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.

Description: A research report providing a primer on the mechanics and uses of the Hidden Markov Model for actuarial and financial applications.