Description: The Actuary took home three awards at the Association Media & Publishing 38th Annual EXCEL Awards.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) sends out press releases on a variety of local, national and international actuarial news. Read full press releases here.

Description: Organizations representing the actuarial profession in Canada & U.S. report new Actuaries Climate Index data, showing average of climate extremes & sea level.

Description: Recently, the SOA and I sent a message to all members and candidates speaking on this issue. I realize it wasn’t enough. As an organization and as a profession, we need to do more, and I want to talk with you about what we will do

Description: The SOA and American Academy of Actuaries announce updated financial planning tool for retirement.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to educate insurance actuaries on the use of wildfire risk datasets and models to be developed by researchers from academia and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Description: The Society of Actuaries announced the six actuarial candidates named as SOA James C. Hickman Scholars. The Hickman Scholars Program provides stipends to doctoral candidates working on actuarial research and education, with this year being the first to include international candidates.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute developed a new study to explore pharmacy financing. The goals of the SOA related to this research are to identify opportunities to increase transparency, encourage competition, align stakeholder incentives and mitigate increases in total cost of care. The research uses a value-based methodology.

Description: Organizations representing the actuarial profession in Canada and the United States have applied an improved methodology to the Actuaries Climate Index® starting with newly released ACI data for fall 2018, and the latest data show the previously reported upward trend in the key five-year moving average ACI metric continues.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute, in collaboration with Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated (NYSE: RGA), a leading global life and health reinsurer, today released a new report titled “Retirement Readiness in Japan: Financial Security and Risk Perceptions.”