Description: Compares discount rates for computing pension plan liabilities for funding purposes across single employer, multiemployer and public pension plans in the U.S.

Description: This paper is being produced in conjunction with eight companion pieces reflecting a variety of stakeholder experiences with the development of the risk pool.

Description: Metrics for measuring pension plan contributions against benchmarks for achieving specific financial funding goals.

Description: The Society of Actuaries and Financial Finesse are creating a series of briefs focused on retirement literacy issues.

Description: A research report providing a primer on the mechanics and uses of the Hidden Markov Model for actuarial and financial applications.

Description: This report studies the interrelationships between the general levels of unemployment in the economy and the sale and persistency of insurance products. The report explores whether insurance products have reduced sales and persistency as the level of unemployment increased in a given economic environment.

Description: This report predicts farm-level crop yield distributions in the absence of farm-level yield data.

Description: The report analyzes 2015 vs. 2010 potentially preventable deaths from the five leading causes of mortality in the United States.

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.