Description: In this paper, we propose a novel class of propagation models to study the cybersecurity risks in fog computing cased IoT architectures, which are significantly different from the quantitative frameworks used in the existing cyber-related works within actuarial literature.

Description: The Emerging Issues in Underwriting Survey was intended for direct life writing insurance companies in the US and Canada. The Survey looked at various trends that could have a significant impact on the process and practices of life insurance underwriting in the future.

Description: This is the second report in a series of reports on the financial perspectives of aging and retirement of Americans across the generations. It focuses on an oversample of African American, Asian American, and Hispanic/Latino respondents.

Description: The purpose of this document is to inform the user of the 2022 Health Care Cost Model about the sources of data, other reports, and assumptions which were used to populate this report and drive some of the key considerations.

Description: The Retirement Section and Retirement Section Research Committee are pleased to make available a research report examining academic and practitioner research on low interest rates in the United States.

Description: This report examines weather conditions for high temperature, drought conditions, and late in the year tornadoes that are extreme in an historical context.

Description: 2021 US Population Provisional Data Mortality report, Data and Methodology Spreadsheet.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute released an updated report summarizing current issues regarding actuarial technology. In March 2022, for a second time, the SOA Research Institute gathered a panel of insurance industry experts for an update on current actuarial technology topics to help identify directions for future research efforts. This report summarizes their discussions on the Actuarial operating model, technology risk and open-source software.

Description: The Chinese insurance market is grappling with product innovation, business growth and regulatory oversight as it tries to keep pace with a sharp growth in demand across product segments. In this context, the authors have highlighted insurance trends in China, based on available research and literature, with a particular focus on topics that will drive the enterprise risk management (ERM) function of insurance companies. ERM provides an opportunity for insurers to identify and mitigate potential insurance risks by enhancing their policies and risk management activities. This report explores the insurance trends in detail, drawing on findings from interviews of practitioners in the Chinese market, to provide context for the drivers of ERM transformation.

Description: This report will provide an overview of how COVID-19 and the related societal changes have affected U.S. employers and individuals as we focus on retirement, summarize the SOA Research Institute-sponsored research, identify some of the current uncertainties, and provide ideas and questions for thinking about the future. This is a relatively unusual report because most COVID-19 related reports have focused on immediate issues, and not on thinking about the longer term. The Institute reports consider longer-term issues and raise questions that need to be answered.