Description: The IRS released Notice 2006-95 provides guidance regarding the use by taxpayers of either 1980 CSO or 2001 CSO in determining whether mortality charges are reasonable within the meaning of section 7702c3Bi.

Description: The information assembled here has been collected by the SOA ambassadors, and is meant to provide you with a window into the condition and practice of insurance in the host country.

Description: The information assembled here has been collected by the SOA ambassadors, and is meant to provide you with a window into the condition and practice of insurance in the host country.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic helped accelerate many changes in the Health Care system that were already taking place. The major disruptions to the way providers operated was quite evident with shifting of focus away from elective services to create capacity for treating COVID-19. However, even before the pandemic, providers were adapting to changes in their environments.

Description: The landscape of climate-related and sustainability-related disclosures has been changing and evolving. The approaches that companies will use under the new ISSB standards (IFRS - IFRS S1, IFRS - IFRS S2) remains to be seen. To help prepare for these standards taking effect, the SOA Research Institute Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Steering Committee is seeking researchers to conduct a literature search to lay out methodologies and approaches being considered to implement these new standards, along with common terminology and common language determination in the approaches.

Description: Innovation is known to be challenging. It creates discomfort for others used to the current way of doing business, and there is always the risk of failure. Innovation is a type of change and change is difficult for companies to manage. Reacting to pandemics or new regulations requires a lot of effort, but the need is clear and urgent. How do you muster the effort to tackle an optional change that holds the promise of future benefits and current sacrifice?

Description: The Society of Actuaries Long Term Care Insurance and Health Sections are seeking researchers to author a primer on long-term care insurance wellness programs. The underlying motivation for this effort is to educate actuaries on these programs and provide a useful resource for understanding their benefits, structure and limitations.

Description: The SOA Research Institute Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Program and Health Section Council Committees are seeking researchers to compare the intended effects of the ACA and its amendments since the implementation of each provision.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute isdedicated to advancing education and research for the actuarial profession. Aspart of its mission, the SOA Research Institute recognizes the importance ofpartnering with colleges and universities to help develop future actuaries.With this in mind, the SOA Research Institute holds an annual Student ResearchCase Study Challenge, which provides an opportunity for teams of students toapply their actuarial skills on a real-world problem in a business setting.

Description: The Actuarial Innovation and Technology Steering Committee of the Society of Actuaries is sponsoring this competition to encourage contestants to find innovative usages for data visualization software. This contest seeks to give actuaries and non-actuaries the chance to showcase their ability to tell a story by creating data visualizations for one of two standard datasets that have been created for this purpose.