Description: This is a research paper titled "Searching for Simplicity: Using Behavioral Science to make Life Insurance Product Information Simple and Effective" published by the Society of Actuaries Research Institute in August 2024. It explores improving customer comprehension of life insurance products using behavioral science.

Description: The document is the "Pub-2016 Public Retirement Plans Mortality Tables Report" published in May 2025 by the Retirement Plans Experience Committee (RPEC) of the Society of Actuaries and LIMRA. It contains information on mortality tables development, data collection, annuity comparisons, and application of tables for public pension plans.

Description: This report explores how artificial intelligence can be applied to investment and retirement planning, highlighting real-world applications, risks, and recommendations.

Description: This report captures expert insights from a March 2025 roundtable on how generative AI is shaping actuarial work and insurance industry practices.

Description: This survey tracks the relative rankings of risk managers about emerging risks across time. It is the 18th survey of emerging risks sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), administered by the Joint Risk Management Section.

Description: This report examines the adoption and challenges of predictive analytics in life and annuity reinsurance, including current practices, regulatory context, and advanced AI applications.

Description: Award-winning essays on addressing unwanted bias in life and annuity insurance processes.

Description: This report was developed by the CESRC as an update of one Rob Erhardt prepared in 2016 that compiled a collection of sources that deal with what scientists know and what actuaries could do. Sources have been chosen with practicing actuaries and the public in mind. In the original report, nearly all governmental sources come from the United States. In the update an attempt was made to include sources from actuarial bodies and regulators worldwide. Please let us know if you have a source we did not include as it is anticipated that the SOA will continue to update a list of sources for these topics in the future.

Description: This document is a research study conducted by Derrick FUNG Wing Hong, PhD, FSA, CERA, from The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, sponsored by The Society of Actuaries Research Institute. It investigates the impact of COVID-19 on insurers and the relationship between Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) sophistication and insurers' resilience.