Description: This report presents the results of the work undertaken in response to the SIPF’s request. The premise of this work is that there is a need for a concise but still comprehensive and focused report on the financial health and prospects of state and municipal plans to give stakeholders the overview they need to come to informed opinions about the need for changes to the structure of these plans. The report needs to strike a balance between narrative and quantitative indicators of a plan’s financial health.

Description: The SOA completed a preliminary study on indications of pent-up demand. The study examines new ACA enrollee use of preference-sensitive services.

Description: Policy brief from a discussion paper for the RFF workshop “Improving Disaster Financing: Evaluating Policy Interventions in Disaster Insurance Markets”.

Description: This report compares and contrasts methodologies for allocating U.S. historical gender-specific mortality improvement experience into four components.

Description: This report documents modeling work and compares the decomposition results from the two routes described in Volume 1.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and Financial Finesse are creating a series of briefs focused on retirement literacy issues.

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: This one page paper highlights the results of the various comparisons for both R2 and MAPE at the individual enrollee level.