Description: This article explores strategies for optimizing actuarial models built on open system platforms. It begins by contrasting open and closed system modeling environments, emphasizing that users of open systems must take responsibility for in-house runtime optimization. The authors underscore the critical role that efficient, well-optimized models play in supporting a high-performing modeling team. To reinforce the techniques discussed, the article includes a case study focused on disability insurance modeling to offer practical insights.

Description: An article about the 2026 Emerging Risk Survey. for the SOA India newsletter

Description: This essay collection explores actuarial, financial, and demographic challenges surrounding long-term services and supports in the United States.

Description: Framework summarizing individual and group fairness criteria and metrics for life insurance pricing and underwriting, highlighting trade-offs among ethical, operational, and actuarial considerations.

Description: Overview of international reinsurance jurisdictions and reserving/capital frameworks relevant to U.S. life and annuity insurers, including structures, regulatory considerations, and illustrative case studies.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is pleased to announce that the Asia Actuarial Teaching Conference (ATC) 2026 will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 26–27 June 2026. Actuarial educators and faculty members from across Asia are warmly invited to come together to share teaching innovations, practical insights, and best practices shaping the future of actuarial education in the region.

Description: Over the past year, we conducted several industry surveys, including the Asset-Intensive Reinsurance Companies Survey, where we interviewed nearly 30 reinsurers, and the Survey on Internal Reinsurance and Internal Affiliates (such as captives and sidecars), which saw participation from more than half of the top 30 U.S. life insurers. While full survey reports were shared exclusively with participating companies, this presentation will highlight key findings on some of the industry's most frequently discussed topics.

Description: This session will introduce attendees to a variety of powerful tools in Excel designed for manipulating and analyzing large datasets, including seriatim data with millions of rows. Alternatively, the attendee with learn equivalent strategies using R. Both approaches can validate each other.