Description: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a Variable Annuity Guaranteed Living Benefit Utilization Study.

Description: The SOA has collaborated with LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), and TAI on an ongoing effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience. The data collected for this study included 2.8 million deaths from life insurance policies covering the period January 1, 2015 to September 30, 2020.

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: This is the report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2002–04.

Description: This study is the latest in continuing reports on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This includes both preferred and standard classifications. It covers standard individually underwritten life insurance between 1995 and 2000 policy anniversaries.

Description: This report, authored by Cathy Ho and Nancy Muise, represents the results of individual life insurance lapse experience for guaranteed issue and simplified issue life in the United States. Lapse experience for a subset of these data that is specified as pre-need life insurance is also reported. The data collected covers policy experience from 2005 to 2009.

Description: This report, authored by Cathy Ho and Nancy Muise, represents the results of individual life insurance lapse experience for guaranteed issue and simplified issue life in the United States. Lapse experience for a subset of these data that is specified as pre-need life insurance is also reported. The data collected covers policy experience from 2005 to 2009.

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 Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and Society of Actuaries (SOA) engaged RGA Reinsurance Company (RGA) to undertake a research project on level premium term life insurance products with a particular focus on the magnitude and impact of the “shock lapse” at the end of the level premium period. This project is similar to the SOA-sponsored research completed by RGA in 2014 for USA business.

Description: A recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.