Description: Sponsored by the SOA's Product Development Section, Financial Reporting Section, Committee on Life Insurance Research and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries, this report examines the application of credibility theory in the Canadian life insurance industry.

Description: The Modeling Section, Predictive Analytics and Futurism Section, Committee on Life Insurance Research, Product Development Section and Reinsurance Section releases a report that can help to educate actuaries on how best to implement predictive modeling into relevant areas of actuarial practice. This report includes a review of existing literature and current industry practices, as well as a comprehensive set of considerations for predictive modeling in insurance applications.

Description: This project explores various design and implementation details for the Spend Safely in Retirement Strategy (SSiRS).

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: Top Actuarial Technologies of 2022-2023 provides updates on the current and planned uses of various technology types and tools, highlights those technologies expected to grow the fastest among actuaries in the next 12 months, and assesses the status of adoption versus expectations from 2019.

Description: The document is a report on U.S. Population Mortality Observations updated with 2022 experience by R. Jerome Holman, FSA, MAAA. It covers mortality trends, analyses by factors like sex, age group, and cause of death, and includes methodological details for the data presented.

Description: This podcast series is an exploration of the paper “Long Term Drivers of Future Mortality” written by Yair Babad and Al Klein. The podcast aims to raise awareness of the paper's valuable insights and make it a useful resource for actuaries, underwriters, insurers, demographers, academics, economists, public health officials, and others involved in estimating future mortality trends and their implications.

Description: Explore essays that examine the extent climate change factors are or will contribute to excessive heat-related morbidity or mortality over the short or long term, including probable scenarios and projections of future morbidity and mortality costs, risks and uncertainties.

Description: Decentralized insurance alternatives is a rapidly expanding sector of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), an emerging and growing financial ecosystem powered by blockchain technologies. The purpose of this report is to review and discuss the business models and operating designs of decentralized insurance alternatives, which may have significant implications for traditional insurance businesses, as well as the actuarial profession.

Description: This project pertained to the development of anew Actuarial Science Learning Community model, involving four types of students' engagement: academic coursework, residential life, research, and professional development. The model provided students an immersive exposure to Data Science from the Actuarial perspective, which will result in Actuarial students greatly expanding their skill set and future job opportunities, at the intersection of Actuarial Science and Data Science.