Description: Come discuss modeling costs and its governance, as well as introduce some platforms for more granular asset modeling.

Description: Learn about the innovations of life & health products and distribution in the Asia market.

Description: This report examines the adoption and challenges of predictive analytics in life and annuity reinsurance, including current practices, regulatory context, and advanced AI applications.

Description: Award-winning essays on addressing unwanted bias in life and annuity insurance processes.

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute sent companies a survey in May of 2019 on mortality improvement practices. Note this survey was completed prior to the onset of COVID-19, so that issue was not addressed in this survey. The purpose of the survey was to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to life insurance and annuity pricing and financial projections in both the U.S. and Canada.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Model, MIM-2021- V3. Different mortality projection methodologies are utilized by actuaries across applications and practice areas. As a result, the MIM Advisory Group (“Advisory Group”) developed a single framework to serve as a consistent base for practitioners in projecting mortality improvement.

Description: The primary purposes of the study are the following: 1. Compare recent industry experience for individual life waiver of premium (ILWOP) insurance products to the claim incidence and claim termination rates from the 1952 SOA Disability Table; 2. Analyze actual-to-expected (A/E) claim incidence and claim termination ratios across key segments such as gender, attained age, etc.; 3. Develop an illustrative experience basis for calculating policy and claim reserves based on the results from the A/E studies; and 4. Compare reserves calculated using experience assumptions to the reserves calculated using the 1952 SOA Disability Table for an illustrative cohort of ILWOP business.

Description: This research report discusses simplified issue underwriting in life insurance. It examines recent developments, characteristics, challenges, current practices, assumptions and data elements.

Description: This report provides various summaries of the above listed data and provides observations from these summaries, with a goal to help actuaries understand the emerging trends in mortality due to COVID-19.

Description: This study estimates the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases and reported deaths by hospital referral regions (HRR) using Johns Hopkins University COVID-19 data by U.S. county and the Dartmouth Atlas Project division of counties into HRRs.