Description: This report summarizes points made through an online discussion on issues related to spending in retirement, asset management, and the use of Qualified Longevity Annuity Contracts (QLACs).

Description: Unmet needs and implications for long-term care financing in Singapore.

Description: Cost Effectiveness of Tumor Genomic Analysis and Immunotherapy

Description: This research studies catastrophe insurance pools covering losses caused by extreme weather events.

Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the final 2020 Actuarial Value Calculator and Actuarial Value Calculator Methodology

Description: The SOA Retirement Section and Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program are pleased to make available material from a research study that explored: What Retirement Plan Features do Employees Really Want? The report presents the findings of an online survey of U.S. adults conducted by Deloitte Consulting LLP. The purpose of the study was to gain insight into the features of retirement plans that are important to employees and where they may make trade-offs for the features they find most important. This report provides important observations for employers and other retirement stakeholders as they assess retirement plans.

Description: A reference document which describes the table development process.

Description: On November 30, 2021, the SOA Research Institute assembled an industry expert panel to discuss current issues in actuarial technology. Each participant who volunteered to be part of the discussion was selected because of their management-level responsibilities for the application of technology in an actuarial context. The group was diverse in terms of employment, including company actuaries from life, health, and property/casualty backgrounds, as well as consultants from various kinds of firms. This document summarizes the discussion that occurred during the three-hour meeting. To encourage candor during the discussion, participants were assured that this report would not attribute comments to individuals or companies, so no names appear in the body of the report. The names of those who participated are included at the end of the report.

Description: As results emerged showing the influence of COVID-19 on recent mortality, the Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee (MLPSC) began to ponder what it means for the future. Was the coronavirus pandemic just a temporary shock to U.S. mortality with mortality quickly returning to prepandemic levels upon its conclusion or a lingering factor in future U.S. mortality from the potential occurrence of new coronavirus variants, post-COVID-19 conditions (“long COVID”), deferral of needed health care treatment, a fatigued health care system and other elements? Only time will provide the answers to these questions.

Description: This report covers the latest emerging trends in U.S. population mortality. The SOA relied upon data furnished by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Observations are based on the CDC’s recent release of 2020 mortality experience, along with prior mortality experience data from 1999 through 2019.