Description: In this report, we consider high-level results from provisional mortality data released from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for 2021, including looking at changes by sex and age group.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute has launched the Quarterly Mortality Monitoring Report (QMMR) series, providing updated U.S. mortality data every three months. Each report will facilitate the analysis of mortality trends, offering insights into the latest data as well as tools for visualizing these trends.

Description: This document discusses the comparison of lifetables generated using classic demographic techniques and the Human Mortality Database method protocol for socioeconomic deciles from 1982 to 2022. It explains differences in estimation methods, calculation steps for lifetables, advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and a comparison of lifetable values.

Description: This report presents the impact of Covid-19 on socioeconomic differentials in mortality in the United States. The study aims to understand how the pandemic affected various socioeconomic groups in the U.S. population.

Description: What are the recent trends in mortality? Should we expect different mortality experience in a post-COVID-19 world? Join us as we review the latest emerging trends in U.S. population mortality. By the end of this session, you will understand the impact of COVID-19 on future mortality experience. You will also understand other major causes of mortality and how they are trending.

Description: Learn more about post-COVID-19 pandemic mortality trends, their drivers, and future projections. Panelists presented multiple perspectives based on audience input. Key points: identifying emerging mortality trends, understanding their implications for actuarial practice, and applying these insights to daily practice.

Description: Mental health and VBC have individually been buzzwords within the health community for many years, but rarely together. In this ‘ask the expert’ forum nothing is off limits, but these scintillating topics are a guarantee: unabated demand for mental health services post-pandemic, decreasing provider supply, rising provider burnout, access to care, management of chronic conditions, & medical/behavioral integration concepts including data fragmentation.

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: Speakers provide insights for adjusting historical and future mortality for COVID-19. Recent Society of Actuaries research examining historical U.S. population mortality by socioeconomic category and methodologies for removing the impact of COVID-19 from mortality rates will be presented. Additionally, results from an expert opinion survey on COVID-19 and future mortality will be discussed. Thoughts on how companies are utilizing external and internal sources to modify mortality assumptions/models for COVID-19 will be shared.

Description: Mortality improvement assumptions have typically been focused on all-cause mortality improvement. However, as evidenced in recent years, the cause of death has a large impact on mortality improvement. Join our panel of experts as they discuss mortality improvement through the lens of different causes of death. This discussion will include a review of the historical cause specific mortality improvement trends seen in the U.S. population and how this relates to the insured population. The panelists will then discuss how to use these trends to inform future mortality improvement assumptions. Key learning objectives include: - Identifying the trends in mortality improvement for select causes of death - Understanding how to adapt these for an insured population - Applying these learnings to mortality improvement assumptions