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

Description: Several presentations that contain analyses on the SOA’s Individual Life Experience Committee’s 2003 to 2013 Individual Life Mortality Experience Data are available below. The final 2003 to 2013 Individual Life Mortality Experience Report and data will be published later this year.

Description: The Group Life COVID-19 Mortality Survey gathers a high-level view of U.S. Group Term Life Insurance mortality results during the COVID-19 pandemic through March 2021, as compared to prior period baseline mortality results. This new report is an update to the survey report released in December 2020, which contained data through August 2020.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute’s Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee issued a call for essays to explore the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to mortality and longevity. The objective was to gather a variety of perspectives and experiences on the use of AI in mortality modeling, forecasting and prediction to promote discussion and future research around this topic. The collection includes six essays that were accepted for publication from all submissions. Two essays were chosen for prizes based on their creativity, originality, and likelihood of further thought on the subject matter.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefit Utilization Study. This study is an annual update of earlier investigations conducted since 2006

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Description: This report examines lapse experience on individual life products for a variety of policy and product factors. The study can be used for industry benchmarking, as well as for background information for the product development and planning process. The data contained in this report can help companies identify factors that impact individual life insurance persistency.

Description: Learn about the The 2017 Guaranteed Issue Blended Mortality Rates with 75% loading.

Description: The Group Life COVID-19 Mortality Survey gathers a high-level view of U.S. Group Term Life Insurance mortality results during the COVID-19 pandemic through September 2021, as compared to prior period baseline mortality results. This new report is an update to the survey report released in July 2021, which contained data through March 2021.