Description: This study aims to develop a market-based insolvency prediction model to detect financially distressed insurers at an early stage with the information content of higher moments from the market.

Description: The study identifies significant U.S. mortality improvement/deterioration trends since 1959 including, but not limited to, those described in the SOA report, Components of Historical Mortality Improvement, using cause-of-death and other relevant data sources to quantify the likely degree of causality.

Description: The Mortality & Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee is pleased to present a new report summarizing the work accomplished under the 2019 research grant supporting the Human Mortality Database (HMD) team. The work was divided between two main projects: 1) the continuous development of the United States Mortality Database (USMDB) and 2) the publication of cause-specific mortality series for selected HMD countries.

Description: One of the evolving datasets with the COVID-19 Research Database is the Datavant population mortality information. This report notes the features of the database, discuss their potential use and limitations, examines data reliability and reviews it potential use as an additional data set and input to mortality improvement models.

Description: Despite the advent of COVID-19, autonomous vehicle (AV) market leaders continued to invest in technology and to establish partnerships with vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). This report provides a 2021 update on autonomous vehicles.

Description: Examines complex structured assets used by life and annuity insurers, including structures, risks, performance in crises, and implications for capital and asset-liability management.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Retirement Plans Experience Committee (RPEC) has released an exposure draft of the Pub-2016 Public Retirement Plans Mortality Tables. The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: Seeking researchers to analyze long-term risk trends via survey data and develop engaging report formats for broad audiences.

Description: This report introduces a framework for assessing the impact of retirement plans on organizational success. It highlights the direct and indirect benefits of well-designed retirement plans and includes 10 key considerations, metrics, and measures of workforce dynamics. The framework helps companies prioritize necessary changes, with examples and case studies illustrating successful applications and potential risks.

Description: This podcast series is an exploration of the paper “Long Term Drivers of Future Mortality” written by Yair Babad and Al Klein. The podcast aims to raise awareness of the paper's valuable insights and make it a useful resource for actuaries, underwriters, insurers, demographers, academics, economists, public health officials, and others involved in estimating future mortality trends and their implications.