Description: The Mortality Improvement subgroup of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Work Group and the Society of Actuaries’ Mortality and Longevity Oversight Advisory Council released a recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes. This recommendation has been adopted by the NAIC’s Life Actuarial Task Force.

Description: This project models and forecasts premature cardiovascular mortality, with a focus on two main risk factors - obesity status and education attainment level. It investigates the role of obesity and education in determining age-sex-specific premature cardiovascular mortality.

Description: To complement the limitations posed by the static nature of current survey papers in cyber risk literature and to facilitate cyber risk research, this project features a Natural Language Processing (NLP)-powered repository and search tool “CyLit” built by the authors.

Description: This report provides actuaries and other finance professionals with an example of running the Medicaid Unwinding model with results at the national level on projected changes in both acuity and enrollment for Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program.

Description: This paper is an introduction to AI technology designed for actuaries to understand how the technology works, the potential risks it could introduce, and how to mitigate risks.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Program is pleased to release two essays addressing sustainability and sustainable development goals.

Description: These contextualized insights were gathered during the InsurTech Insights USA Conference, held on June 7-8, 2023, in New York with numerous SOA members attending.

Description: This document describes an effort to measure the deaths in the US population relative to pre-pandemic expectations. The actual deaths used are as reported by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) and we consider several different methods for setting the expectations, adjusting for the estimated mix by age, sex, and time of the year (seasonality).

Description: This report explores the behavioral factors influencing insurance purchase among Gen Z and Millennials for forward-looking purposes, leveraging a rich dataset spanning 22 markets across six continents.

Description: This paper, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA} ‘Research Projects – Finance/Investment,’ is presented by the SOA’s Committee on Finance Research. This research project, jointly sponsored by the SOA and the Casualty Actuarial Society [CAS], explores economic series and provides an Excel-based tool for generating future economic scenarios. In addition to the paper, which includes an excel workbook containing results of model simulations, there are the following appendices - Appendix A, a 26 page ‘user’s guide,’ Appendix B, a 91 page document entitled ‘Presentations of This Research,’ Appendix C, a zipped file containing hundreds of scenarios i.e., simulation paths of financial and economic variables, generated as output from the Financial Scenario Model, and Appendix D, the model itself in an Excel workbook.