Description: Lincoln Financial Group announced the beginning of a two-year data and analytics talent upskilling program with the Society of Actuaries, a global professional organization for actuaries. The SOA will facilitate training for Lincoln employees through a customized multi-phase educational program focusing on big data and predictive analytics.

Description: The SOA, LIMRA and TAI jointly announce a new research project focusing on life insurance impact from COVID-19.

Description: A recap of the SOA Research Institute's participation in the Spring 2024 NAIC National Meeting.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic helped accelerate many changes in the Health Care system that were already taking place. The major disruptions to the way providers operated was quite evident with shifting of focus away from elective services to create capacity for treating COVID-19. However, even before the pandemic, providers were adapting to changes in their environments.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Long Term Care Insurance and Health Sections are seeking researchers to author a primer on long-term care insurance wellness programs. The underlying motivation for this effort is to educate actuaries on these programs and provide a useful resource for understanding their benefits, structure and limitations.

Description: The landscape of climate-related and sustainability-related disclosures has been changing and evolving. The approaches that companies will use under the new ISSB standards (IFRS - IFRS S1, IFRS - IFRS S2) remains to be seen. To help prepare for these standards taking effect, the SOA Research Institute Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Steering Committee is seeking researchers to conduct a literature search to lay out methodologies and approaches being considered to implement these new standards, along with common terminology and common language determination in the approaches.

Description: The SOA Research Institute Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Program and Health Section Council Committees are seeking researchers to compare the intended effects of the ACA and its amendments since the implementation of each provision.

Description: This request for proposals for research studies on measuring and modeling climate liability risks outlines the background, objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, submission details, conditions, and other pertinent information for interested researchers.

Description: News stories from this past year have included a steady stream of reporting about events associated with climate risk. Photos of devastation from this past summer’s wildfires, deaths caused by heat waves, and suffering from other severe weather events have made clear the far-reaching impact of these events. In addition, there is an increase in concern in longer term non-catastrophic changes (e.g., air quality, higher heat indices, etc.) that may impact such things as land use and health and well-being. As more encounters with these events have occurred, it has become increasingly evident that retirees and those approaching retirement can be both directly and indirectly impacted in their aftermath. This impact may be felt across several broad areas including: retirement investments and the economy; housing; governmental/policy shifts; individual retirement planning and risk assessments, financial institution changes, and additional ill-health and mortality. With these issues in mind, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement, and Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Programs (“sponsors”) have partnered on this research effort to explore this topic from the perspectives of a variety of retirement system stakeholders. The result of this effort is intended to provide a useful resource for readers to become well-grounded on the issues surrounding the impact of climate risk on retirement and set the stage for future research.

Description: Actuarial Research Topics for Long Term Services and Supports (LTSS)