Description: The SOA is pleased to make available material from the Stanford Center on Longevity that focuses on predictions of financial security at different life stages.

Description: A research report describing aspects of provider network performance in health care settings with particular focus on experiences with Exchanges.

Description: The SOA and the CIA are pleased to make available a research report assessing the impact of Canadian Pension Plan (CPP) enhancements.

Description: This report examines historical U.S. motor vehicle accident mortality experience by age, gender, region, and other factors.

Description: Health care payment is shifting from the predominant fee-for-service model to value-based models to better control costs and improve quality.

Description: This paper demonstrates an approach of modeling experience, and then interpreting the model and residual errors.

Description: This report concerns optimal new business written premium mix at the firm and state levels under varying competitive conditions.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Product Development Section, the Modeling Section, the Reinsurance Section and the Financial Reporting Section announce the release of a new research report that introduces a novel framework for leveraging the "architecture" of an industry mortality table within a company's predictive analytics-based insured mortality analysis.

Description: The Product Development Section, the Financial Reporting Section, the Modeling Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research are pleased to present new research on modeling and forecasting cause-of-death mortality. Authored by a Milliman team led by Alexandre Boumezoued, the report develops a framework for forecasting cause specific death rates. Included also is a Cause of Deaths Forecasting Tool and a user guide for the tool.

Description: The popular press plays an important role in public perception regarding automated vehicles. In contrast to the excitement generated two to three years ago, we are now in a period of “reverse hype” with most articles focused on the slow pace of development and concerns regarding possible negative impacts on traffic congestion and growth of suburbs. To help describe current trends and highlight differences between the cars we see on the street today and driverless vehicles, this report relies on three market-related definitions; safe, self-driving and driverless.