Description: As part of its ongoing effort to provide useful information on COVID-19, the Society of Actuaries issued a brief survey to its Investment Section members to gain insight as to how COVID-19 is impacting investment professionals. The survey results are intended to help members compare their thinking and future expectations of COVID-19 with their peers.

Description: This study develops a detailed set of life tables by socioeconomic category and examines mortality trends in the United States from 1999 to 2018.

Description: Actuarial weather extremes, October 2020

Description: Actuarial weather extremes, January, 2021

Description: Machine learning algorithms fit models based on patterns identified in data and can be very complex. In this report, we describe and illustrate a range of methods for interpreting machine learning models from the growing field of Interpretable Machine Learning (IML).

Description: This report is an update of the U.S. Population Mortality Observations – Preview of 2020 Experience released in May 2021. This update is based on 2020 provisional death data released by the CDC.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefit Utilization Study. This study is an annual update of earlier investigations conducted since 2006.

Description: Supporting Excel file for Getzen Model 2022.

Description: Supplemental Appendices for Using Social Determinants to Identify Profiles of U.S. Children with Low Dental Expenditures and High Medical Expenditures with Clusters

Description: The Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee (MLPSC) released this report, which examined the latest trends in obesity and developed an estimate of the impact of obesity on mortality and morbidity costs in the U.S. and Canada.