Description: The digital revolution has transformed the insurance sector, introducing new technologies and innovative players. Traditional insurers face challenges from Big Tech and insurtech startups, prompting them to adapt or innovate. This study presents a framework to analyze market dynamics and potential partnerships, helping insurers identify competitive advantages and future paths in a digital era.

Description: This report details the 2025 HMI and FMI scale recommendations for individual life insurance mortality valuation under AG38 and VM20 using insured population data.

Description: A biennial survey analyzing financial risk awareness and retirement transition experiences of Americans aged 45–80.

Description: This is a detailed report analyzing the 2019 Individual Life Insurance Mortality Experience, focusing on data validation, trends in mortality experience, and comparisons between different datasets. It includes insights on mortality patterns by age, sex, policy characteristics, and provides detailed methodology and findings.

Description: The primary purpose of this paper is to demonstrate, through a basic stochastic projection model, how inflation might impact savings and investing for retirement.

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: This report updates the Canadian Mortality Data through 2021 in the Human Mortality Database and Canadian Human Mortality Database, including methodology, data sources, and internal consistency checks.

Description: This report, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Disability,’ represents the first study of individual disability income [IDI] lapse experience conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the Society of Actuaries [SOA] Individual Disability Insurance Experience Committee. The study examines lapse activity for years 1999 through 2001.

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of a survey conducted by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys - Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee. The purpose of the survey was to explore life insurance company practices regarding the use of a mortality improvement assumption in the pricing of life insurance products.

Description: Based on work performed by Bob Howard, a former member of RPEC, the SOA developed a spreadsheet-based program that allows users to create a customized mortality improvement scale using the RPEC_2014 model. The RPEC_O2_v2018 model found here utilizes the same projection methodology underpinning the RPEC_2014 model except that the historical rates have been developed using “order-2” Whittaker-Henderson graduation rather than “order-3”.