Description: In May of 2006 the Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee of the SOA surveyed both reinsurers and direct companies about their practices with respect to making business decisions in the underwriting process. This article highlights the comparison of the results of the two surveys.

Description: Summary of upcoming seminar, scheduled for August 14-15, 2017.

Description: CD Paper Exhibits - Exhibit #1 SOA from NewsDirect Newsletter, Spring 2000, Issue No. 34, Special Supplement.

Description: This is one of eight essays from the collection: 2020 Living to 100 Essays.

Description: This is the Demographic Perspectives on the Rise of Longevity paper authored by Marie-Pier Bergeron Boucher, James W. Vaupel and Francisco Villavicencio for Session 4A of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: This is the Retirement Strategy Metrics paper authored by Mark Shemtob for Session 2B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: The Society of Actuaries released research in 2007 that develops a model for a U.S. individual life insurance company to consider its potential liability exposure as a result of a pandemic. Sponsored by the Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee, this paper updates several model assumptions including mortality in light of COVID-19.

Description: This report is sponsored by the Society of Actuaries in collaboration with Ernst & Young. It examines the application of stochastic modeling techniques to non-market risks facing the life insurance industry.

Description: The purpose of this article is to discuss some concerns the author's company has had in administering first-dollar reinsurance and to raise awareness of issues you may wish to consider for your reinsurance arrangement.

Description: The IAA has published a textbook-sized monograph on implementing risk adjustments under IFRS 17. This monograph will be helpful to those calculating the risk adjustment and those who want to know what the risk adjustment represents and how if affects period to period reporting.