Description: View the COVID-19 Low Interest Rate Environment Cash Flow Testing Survey Summary of Results April 23, 2020

Description: This document describes an effort to measure the deaths in the U.S. population relative to pre-pandemic expectations. This report updates the original report, 2020 Excess Deaths in the U.S. General Population by Age and Sex, with more complete data for 2020.

Description: The purpose of this status report is to advise practitioners about subsequent research and analysis conducted by the Advisory Group regarding these items. At this time, there are no new enhancements to the MIM-2021 tools.

Description: This paper concerns policyholder dividends on traditional participating life insurance products in regulatory contexts similar to those in the United States and Canada. This paper also touches on annuity products. It was prepared for use in the educational curriculum of the Society of Actuaries. Dividend actuaries seeking references to writings on policyholder dividends to refresh their perspective may also find it useful.

Description: This report was prepared for use in the educational curriculum of the Society of Actuaries. It describes the main features of structured settlement annuities in North America and current actuarial practices and issues related to this product. It draws upon a study note on the same topic authored by Roger Harbin, FSA in 1991. Perspective on the Canadian structured settlement market was provided by Robert (Bob) Nigol, B.A., M.A., Managing Partner of EPS Settlements Group of Canada.

Description: A set of mortality improvement factors for year-end 2016 to be used in conjunction with the 2008 VBT or the 2015 VBT for AG-38 purposes.

Description: This report provides an educational background on the process of building predictive models, as well as a detailed presentation of the model results. Predictive models provide a method to capture variation by multiple variables and understand the relationship between these variables. This allows for a deeper understanding of key variables than is possible under a traditional approach.

Description: The Mortality Improvement subgroup of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Life Experience Committee and the Society of Actuaries’ Preferred Mortality Oversight Group Valuation Basic Table Team has released a recommendation for the methodology to use to develop the set of improvement factors to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes for year-end 2020.

Description: An update of selected key graphs from the Key Statistics section of previous COVID-19 briefs.

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.