Description: Paper summarizes articles on quality care issues including - measurement & reporting, financing, patient safety, standards & education, and leadership.

Description: Research projects in pension - Pension Risk Management: Derivatives, Fiduciary Duty and Process.

Description: This paper summarizes third millennium pension research available on the Society of Actuaries Website. The research is organized by categories. In some cases research is assigned to more than one category due to overlap. The goal is to enable a pension actuary who is looking for a research resource to ascertain if there is relevant research and if so to be able to find and download the information. For each item, the year the research was released, the form of research e.g. literature search, paper, survey and a brief synopsis are provided.

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses is currently seeking life insurance company data submissions to the 2012 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.

Description: This project shows how to use agent-based models to simulate the behaviors of agents in complex health systems.

Description: This is a supplemental Excel Workbook to the Select Period Mortality Survey report. The workbook contains additional analysis of the responses submitted for the select period mortality assumption survey. This project was sponsored by the SOA’s Product Development Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research.

Description: The goal of this paper is to study how a full-range tail dependence copula would be useful in assessing tail risks in a regression setting.

Description: This paper provides a summary of the report, Back Testing of Investment Performance by Asset Class.

Description: Summary of a report examining the decision process to retire and views on managing assets after retirement. The study was designed specifically to examine those who were not forced to retire due to ill health or disability.

Description: This report focuses on measuring retirement benefit adequacy in light of both expected and unexpected expenses in retirement and linking the measurement to the needs and objectives of different stakeholder groups.