Description: View the Archive Fall 2017: Strategic Decision Making Exam.

Description: 2025 Board Member Candidate

Description: To broaden knowledge in emerging issues and topics, the REC is seeking researchers to submit one or more proposals. Sample topics below have been identified as focus areas by the REC. The description of each of the topics has deliberately been written to be brief and open-ended to give researchers sufficient latitude in the development of their proposals. Researchers should not feel constrained by these topics, as many other relevant topics continuously emerge.

Description: The SOA Research Institute has been publishing its annual Getzen Model of Long-Run Medical Cost Trends for the past decade. The Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Committee is looking for a researcher to build on the legacy of the Getzen model and provide annual updates to the SOA’s long-term health care trend projections.

Description: 2024 President-Elect and Vice Chair Candidate Page for Sharon Giffen

Description: 2024 President-Elect and Vice Chair Candidate Page for Darryl G. Wagner

Description: Obituary for Virgil D. Wagner

Description: View information on the 2021 Board Member Candidate Roger Loomis

Description: Carlos Sánchez-Fuentes, FSA, MAAA, FCA Candidate Questionnaire

Description: The Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys of the Society of Actuaries Research Institute sent companies a survey in May of 2019 on mortality improvement practices. Note this survey was completed prior to the onset of COVID-19, so that issue was not addressed in this survey. The purpose of the survey was to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to life insurance and annuity pricing and financial projections in both the U.S. and Canada.