Description: Discusses the market, demographic, and macroeconomic factors that affect actuaries' choices for the assumptions they use in the pricing and valuation of many insurance products.

Description: This study quantifies the range of intercompany variability in mortality. Mean actual-to-expected (A/E) ratios based on amount were calculated in each quintile for every combination of six key variables.

Description: The SOA Research Institute’s Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program is pleased to make available a research report that quantifies differences in mortality and disease prevalence by health status. Additionally, period life tables by health status, sex, and age are available in Appendix D.

Description: This report focuses on the Fixed Indexed Annuity (FIA) contract owner behavior study conducted by the SOA Research Institute and LIMRA for the years 2021-2022. It includes detailed analyses on withdrawals, surrender rates, contract values, distribution channels, and more.

Description: This report is a study. It discusses the objectives, scope, methodology, and limitations of the study, focusing on how diagnosis affects disability income claim recovery and mortality rates.

Description: This is a request for surrender experience data for fixed-rate deferred annuities for the years 2023-2024 from the SOA Research Institute and LIMRA, outlining goals for updating a prior study and offering detailed outputs through a paid subscription to Experience Studies Pro.

Description: How do Professionalism and the Actuarial Standards of Practice apply as the way we work and tools we use continue to change? Business is conducted via social media and messaging and Generative AI allows for additional scenarios, analysis and oversight. Join us for an interactive session to go deeper into these topics including case studies, polls and a panel discussion.

Description: This paper compares two mortality projection models – the latest version of the CMI Mortality Projections Model and the latest version of MIM-2021.Both models were applied to data for England & Wales and the US, and the results were compared.

Description: This session will bring together public health care leaders in COVID-10 vaccine delivery from both the U.S. and the UK to discuss and compare operational implications of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in their countries, and how those programs ultimately affected hospitalization utilization and mortality rates for members of their communities.

Description: This article discusses considerations for statistical biases that may arise in LTC blocks due to historical benefit reductions. The article explores these biases in the context of experience studies and experience projections.