Description: This report is a follow-up to the 2018 Group Long-Term Disability Experience Study Report. This report analyses the same dataset, but focuses on the new variables that are included with that dataset, and also details the application of various Predictive Analytics techniques to the data.

Description: This web page describes the new 2013 Survey of Lapse and Mortality Experience report.

Description: Bob Howard, a member of RPEC, has developed a spreadsheet-based program that produces a set of one-dimensional mortality improvement factors that when projected generationally with RP-2014 base rates produces near-term annuity values that closely approximate corresponding annuity values determined using the full two-dimensional Scale MP-2014.

Description: This study examines the GLB utilization of over 4.6 million contracts that were either issued during or in force as of 2012.

Description: These tables will be used for net premium reserves, tax reserves, non-forfeiture determination, as a basis for 7702/7702A and as a cap for universal life cost of insurance charges.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) published its first COVID-19 research brief on March 10, 2020, followed by regular updates and expansions through June 12, 2020. The comprehensive report included a section of statistics that highlight the pandemic’s impact on economies in the U.S. and Canada. This report shows updates through September 30, 2020, to selected graphs from the Economic and Asset Impact section of the comprehensive report.

Description: This report presents an experience study of pension mortality for national pension systems for four Caribbean countries.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s new report examines how inland flood risk and loss may change across the U.S. in the future because of climate change. The AIR Inland Flood Model for the U.S. and the AIR Hurricane Model for the U.S. were used to evaluate how changes in flooding will impact insurable losses in the future.

Description: The Society of Actuaries released research in 2007, performed by Jim Toole, that develops a model for a U.S. individual life insurance company to consider its potential liability exposure as a result of a pandemic. Sponsored by the Mortality and Longevity Strategic Research Program Steering Committee, this paper updates several model assumptions including mortality in light of COVID-19.

Description: The Mortality Improvement subgroup of the American Academy of Actuaries’ Life Experience Committee and the Society of Actuaries’ Preferred Mortality Oversight Group Valuation Basic Table Team has released 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.