Description: This essay collection examines how changing family dynamics shape retirement security, offering insights on demographic trends, policy design, and actuarial strategy—because retirement is the ultimate family affair.

Description: SOA and LIMRA request mortality data for deferred annuities issued 2015–2024 to support an updated industry experience study.

Description: In this webcast, two points of view are presented - Seven Life Defining Decisions, which presents an individual perspective on lifetime financial choices, and Life-Cycle Fund Design, which discusses the design of a comprehensive life-cycle fund model that includes human capital risk, longevity risk, bequest motive, parameter uncertainty, and different types of annuities and provides a model for financial risk.

Description: This document explores how climate change impacts retirement planning, investments, housing, and health across policy and economic dimensions through essays and funded research.

Description: This report presents research into recent population mortality experience compiled by the Retirement Plans Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute as it pertains to development of mortality improvement assumptions for measuring obligations of retirement programs in the United States.

Description: Learn about the innovations of life and health products around the world. Expect to focus on: 1. Product development and pricing innovation in APAC region. 2. The Insurtech ecosystem creating new products by applying new technology and distribution channels in Latin America and Europe. 3. Products designed to supplement public sector offerings to close health protection gaps for underserved communities in the Middle East Africa and Asia Pacific region.

Description: The SOA Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program and Canadian Institute of Actuaries are pleased to make available the first of two reports that look at Benefit at Risk (BaR) in lifetime pension pools.

Description: As results emerged showing the influence of COVID-19 on recent mortality, the Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee (MLPSC) began to ponder what it means for the future. Was the coronavirus pandemic just a temporary shock to U.S. mortality with mortality quickly returning to prepandemic levels upon its conclusion or a lingering factor in future U.S. mortality from the potential occurrence of new coronavirus variants, post-COVID-19 conditions (“long COVID”), deferral of needed health care treatment, a fatigued health care system and other elements? Only time will provide the answers to these questions.

Description: Credibility is a mechanism for estimating a quantity of interest by combining subject experience and relevant experience to improve the estimate.

Description: In this webcast, we will overview the recent trends in the pension landscapes, as well as discuss investment solutions that assist with navigation through volatile market conditions. Learn more about the challenges that investors face now, as well as in the past. If you're ready to dive into the issues of investing during a period of inflation, monetary tightening and turbulent financial markets, then join us and discover more about what's going on in the pension and retirement industries.