Description: This is the second report in a series on the current state and future opportunity of the retirement market in China. In this report, edition two of the series, you will see results stratified according to city tier and location landscape. Also included in this edition is a description of the differences in retirement age between men and women, and those from different educational backgrounds. This is the Simple Chinese translated version of the report.

Description: The purpose of this research project was to survey professionals in the viatical and life settlement a.k.a. secondary insurance industry to discover how actuaries could best serve this particular business.

Description: Research report sponsored by SOA to model and compare projected costs of different proposals for a Medicare prescription drug coverage plan. 3 types of costs are studied: net benefit cost estimates per member per month, continuance table data, and projected annual costs to the government over 10 years for two selected plan designs.

Description: This is an addendum to the Modern Deterministic Scenarios for Interest Rate Paper.

Description: Disease management [DM] is a health care intervention targeted to individuals with chronic diseases chronics. To justify the investment by payers in DM, it is important to demonstrate beneficial clinical and financial outcomes. This paper analyzes the health cost trends between the chronic and non-chronic populations. Paper 7 of an 8 paper series on 'An Introduction to Care Management Interventions and Their Implications for Actuaries'.

Description: This paper will show how the NAIC formula and others can be allocated by line of business by the use of partial derivatives of RBC.

Description: This document is composed of the questions and comments received to date on the initial report of the SOA’s research report on Financial Reporting for Insurance Contracts Under Possible Future International Accounting Standards.

Description: A research report that examines modeling of cash flow associated within a pool of mortgages and specifically focusing on the effectiveness of infusing a limited amount of capital into the pool.

Description: Email discussion that took place prior to the Housing in Retirement Round Table.

Description: This report helps to identify key socioeconomic trends influencing the need and demand for the industry's products and services, and how these trends will influence marketing methods.