Description: This research report introduces Delta Boosting as a new member of the boosting family.

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2019 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey.

Description: This report describes the results of the latest intercompany study of mortality experience under Structured Settlement annuities.

Description: As part of an upcoming Society of Actuaries (SOA) research release to model health care costs in 2020 and 2021, a set of “Return Stages” were created in order to define the various level of activities being observed, as well as to contemplate the ways these stages may progress as various cities, counties and states release their own phasing processes for returning their jurisdictions to normal.

Description: This research report summarizes methodologies used for yield curve extrapolation to value liability cash flows that extend beyond the maximum observavble portion of the yield curve.

Description: In this report, we will try to provide an in-depth review of current Machine Learning and Deep Learning models and will explain how those models works and their possible applications in the actuarial field. The recent studies and successes from the industry will also be discussed. We intend to bring more actuaries onboard about those technologies and start to think about how to bring them into our daily work.

Description: This report proposes a methodology to isolate crop yield improvement due to technological change and favorable and unfavorable weather.

Description: This is an article providing a summary of the SOA Research Institute's participation in an NAIC meeting that took place in December 2022. This article will also be disseminated via the SOA News Weekly, linking to the article posted on soa.org.

Description: An article recapping the SOA's participation in the NAIC Summer 2023 meeting.

Description: A summary of the SOA Research Institute's participation in the NAIC Spring 2025 National meeting