Description: View excel on U.S. Population Mortality Observations – Updated with 2019 Experience.

Description: View A Tool for Tabulating Johns Hopkins University’s Coronavirus Database.

Description: Summary sheet of the report Classification of Risk-Sharing in Pension Plans-Canadian Practices and Possibilities.

Description: COVID-19 brought changes that disrupted virtually everyone’s personal and professional lives. In April 2021, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) surveyed 26,101 members and candidates to understand the pandemic’s impact on actuarial careers. Approximately 7% (1,912) responded and included demographic information, 77% of whom were from the U.S., 14% from Canada and 9% from other countries.1 The SOA also analyzed actuarial exam progress at an aggregate level.

Description: COVID-19 and the accompanying policy changes have disrupted virtually everyone’s personal and professional lives. In April 2021, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) surveyed members and candidates to understand the impact of COVID-19 on the careers of actuaries and aspiring actuaries. The survey was sent to 26,101 members and candidates. Approximately 7% (1,912) responded and included demographic information. In addition, the SOA investigated actuarial exam progress at an aggregate level. Here are highlights of the findings.

Description: This report provides highlights of a weekly survey of practices regarding the mitigation of the spread of COVID-19 in the U.S. during the first half of January 2021 along with comparisons to prior half-month time periods. The survey asks about the degree to which the respondents perceive that people in their community are following 21 common mitigation practices. The responses are separated by state and compared to state level statistics regarding the level of COVID-19 infections from the Johns Hopkins COVID database for the same time period.

Description: Taking Life Insurance Customer Engagement to the Next Level, commissioned by the Society of Actuaries and produced by Aite Group, uses consumer insights, market trends, and domain expertise to provide ideas that can help insurers create better customer relationships and drive better outcomes for customers and their organizations.

Description: Actuaries have a long history with stochastic modeling. Nested stochastic modeling is often used when the modeling components under each economic scenario are themselves determined by stochastic scenarios in the future. In this paper three methods have been suggested that can be added on top of existing enhancement methods to improve NSM efficiency.

Description: The Aging and Retirement and Actuarial Innovation and Technology Strategic Research Programs are pleased to make available a report that provides a sampling of new financial technologies (fintech) and their applications related to retirement savings systems affecting participants, plan sponsors and service providers.

Description: This full report summarizes the findings of a study focused on the financial perspectives of aging and retirement of Americans across give generations.