Description: This report presents initial findings from a project investigating the direct and indirect impacts of COVID-19 in the post-acute phase of the pandemic. These findings focused on cause-specific excess mortality in the first three pandemic years, March 2020 to February 2023. In addition, the authors investigated how different mechanisms contributed and could continue to affect mortality rates following the acute pandemic period. The study is based on weekly mortality data by age and cause of death from 2015 to 2023 obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, combined with population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau. Weekly excess deaths by age and cause comparing observed deaths to deaths expected based on pre-pandemic trends were computed. Then the temporal correlation between weekly COVID-19 and excess deaths from other causes at various lags were assessed. The authors developed a theoretical framework to interpret the results of this analysis and understand potential underlying factors responsible for excess mortality.

Description: The document is a report on the impact of inflation in retirement based on survey findings conducted by the Society of Actuaries Research Institute in partnership with Optimity. It includes survey questions and results, along with observations on the impact of inflation on personal finances.

Description: This collection presents three essays analyzing the multifaceted impacts of AI and LLMs on retirees and retirement professionals, blending quantitative, philosophical, and forward-looking perspectives.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is pleased to present historical U.S. population mortality rates by sex and single year of age for calendar years 2000-2022.

Description: A summary of the 2001 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study

Description: This is the accompanying spreadsheet for the 2001-02 U.S. Individual Life Persistency Update report. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: The proposed new table, recommended as suitable for a new Group Annuity Reserve Valuation Standard, if accepted and adopted by regulators, would incorporate the use of generational mortality into statutory reserving requirements for group annuities for the first time. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: The Group Annuity Experience Committee performs biennial mortality studies of insurance company annuity experience under group pension contracts issued primarily in the United States. This report covers two biennial experience periods, 2003-2004 and 2005-2006.

Description: 2000-08 Structured Settlement Rated Pivot Tables

Description: Describes the type of information sought on the Preferred Class Structure Questionnaire for the 2005-2007 individual life experience study and explains how to fill out the questionnaire