Description: The video, by Kara Clark, explains how technology is a major long-term driver of future mortality, drawing on Chapter 8 of the SOA Research Institute’s Long-Term Drivers of Future Mortality report.

Description: Join us for a fast-paced webcast unpacking results from the 2026 Emerging Risks Survey. Get key insights from 350+ insurance and financial services leaders, including C-suite respondents, on what they see ahead for 2026 and beyond – spanning economic volatility, geopolitics, adverse AI outcomes, and cyber risk. We’ll spotlight key sector differences and the long-term combinations of risks shaping strategic planning.

Description: This video introduces an SOA Research Institute report on pension risk transfer, explaining how defined benefit plan sponsors increasingly use de-risking strategies to manage financial, longevity, and regulatory pressures. Steven Siegel, ASA, MAAA presents this innovative video.

Description: The video features Dale Hall, Managing Director at the Society of Actuaries Research Institute, where he presents findings from an SOA Research Institute study on the readiness of Asia-Pacific markets for commercial long-term care insurance (LTCI) amid rapid population aging.

Description: This episode of the Society of Actuaries’ podcast features Senior Vice President and Principal at Lewis & Ellis Dave Dillon; entrepreneur and founder of Cost Plus Drugs, Mark Cuban; and Jon Forster, SOA Director of Professional Development Learning and Content Design. Together, they explore entrepreneurship, artificial intelligence, and the evolving healthcare landscape. The conversation includes what it takes to be successful in business, the current healthcare landscape, and the state of AI in actuarial work. Mark shares the origin and mission behind Cost Plus Drugs, underscoring the critical role of price transparency and trust in improving healthcare access and affordability.

Description: Go beyond the pie chart with heat maps and word clouds! Join your fellow actuaries in navigating current AI tools for data visualization. Starting with AI best practices in both data visualization and professionalism, we will look at how actuaries can use these tools for pattern discovery and communicating results to multiple audiences. We will have a live demo of some current tools to show capabilities.

Description: The article explores a closed-form forecasting method that combines Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA), weighted linear regression, and ridge regression (L2 regularization). The approach addresses two key challenges in time-series forecasting: adapting to nonstationarity and mitigating overfitting due to multicollinearity. EWMA assigns more weight to recent observations, while ridge regression penalizes large coefficients to stabilize estimates. A cross-validation strategy across rolling time windows selects optimal hyperparameters: the EWMA decay factor (α) and the ridge penalty (λ). The method is tested using repeated regressions of stock returns, showing that most hyperparameter combinations outperform ordinary least squares (OLS) under the (λ=1, α=0) setting.

Description: This expert-opinion piece advises Canadian life insurers on how IFRS 17 changes asset-liability management for the Contractual Service Margin (CSM).