Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute released a report that examines older age mortality (OAM) with a focus on attained ages 70 and above. The report helps determine whether refinements were needed in the 2015 Valuation Basic Tables. Analysis was performed by sex, issue age and attained age, issue year cohorts, smoking risk classification, benefit band, select vs ultimate period, and interactions.

Description: Based on work performed by Bob Howard, a former member of RPEC, the SOA developed a spreadsheet-based program that allows users to create a customized mortality improvement scale using the RPEC_2014 model.

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and Society of Actuaries (SOA) engaged RGA Reinsurance Company (RGA) to undertake a research project on level premium term life insurance products with a particular focus on the magnitude and impact of the “shock lapse” at the end of the level premium period. This project is similar to the SOA-sponsored research completed by RGA in 2014 for USA business.

Description: LIMRA, Reinsurance Group of America (RGA), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute, and TAI have collaborated on an ongoing effort to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the individual life insurance industry’s mortality experience and share the emerging results with the insurance industry and the public.

Description: This SOA-sponsored research report presents mortality analysis and rate estimates for the United States by year from 1999 through 2018, separately by socioeconomic quintile and decile. Details on the development of the estimates are summarized in the report. The life tables by socioeconomic category are available for download, and some of the results are presented in online graphs and maps.

Description: This Society of Actuaries Research Brief has been constructed to highlight some of the key features of the COVID-19 epidemic and contemplate the risks for the actuarial profession to consider in their work.

Description: The multi-risk scenario generator is an output of the Smaller Insurance Company Section’s sponsored Principle- Based Reserves Simplified Methods study performed by Mark Birdsall, Steve Strommen, and Brian Hartman. The scenario generator can be used for all material assumptions in an actuary’s cash flow projection software.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) retained Milliman, Inc. (Milliman) to conduct a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on long-term care (LTC) insurance mortality, voluntary lapse, and morbidity experience. The results of this survey, which was conducted from August 2021 through September 2021, are presented in this report.

Description: This web page provides links to online graphs and maps, developed by the Society of Actuaries (SOA), of COVID-19 case and death data. The exhibits provide three levels of geographic summarization: worldwide data by country, United States data by state, and United States data by county. The SOA updates these online exhibits on a weekly basis (every Monday morning) with the latest data downloaded from the

Description: a collection of essays aimed to gather perspectives, opinions and data on how to advance the state of effective retirement planning tools, products, and strategies to assist individuals, financial advisors, employers, and other stakeholders.