Description: As part of its work, the PBITT Working Group issued its seventh survey to gather the range of assumptions actuaries use in pricing, reserving, and risk management of minimum guarantees on Variable Annuity products, such as death benefits, income benefits, withdrawal benefits and maturity benefits.

Description: The Human Mortality Database is a unique open‐access collection of detailed mortality and population data for 38 countries.

Description: A research report describing aspects of provider network performance in health care settings with particular focus on experiences with Exchanges.

Description: This research report introduces Delta Boosting as a new member of the boosting family.

Description: This paper demonstrates an approach of modeling experience, and then interpreting the model and residual errors.

Description: This paper discusses some key challenges of embedding guarantees in DC plans, including setting an appropriate guarantee level, designing effective cost funding and risk management strategies, and fair treatment of plan participants with different investment strategies.

Description: This report concerns optimal new business written premium mix at the firm and state levels under varying competitive conditions.

Description: Call For Essays: Managing Extreme Event Risk-Reinsurance Tools and Solutions

Description: RFP for Alternative Investments in Asia Pacific Markets

Description: The North American Actuarial Journal (NAAJ) is a rich source of deep academic research relevant to the actuarial profession. Most busy practicing actuaries have limited capacity to transform the NAAJ research into a practical application that they can use in their current work. With this call for essays, the SOA provides enterprising actuaries the opportunity to highlight practical applications of one or more research papers to be published in an upcoming issue of the NAAJ.