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

Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of January 2020.

Description: Winning essays form the Actuarial Practice Innovation Call for Essays.

Description: Winning essays form the Actuarial Practice Innovation Call for Essays.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic infection has greatly affected the economy, resulting in volatile market conditions. Because market conditions greatly impact the value of insurance company’s assets and liabilities, the fourth survey in this series focused on best practices around asset and liability management (ALM). The survey was directed at actuaries, investment managers and risk managers directly involved in assessing the impact of recent events on ALM. Responses to the survey were collected between April 22-28, 2020. Thirty-two companies responded to the survey.

Description: ALM #2 Survey Questions

Description: InsureTech Connect 2021, covered r emerging trends that were and future opportunities for insurance technology. In addition, Society of Actuaries (SOA) staff and key SOA volunteers who work in the insurtech industry interviewed a variety of attendees to gather further information on these trends.

Description: Research report that explores key factors associated with an insurer’s reputational risk and conditions that would generate incentives for insurers to behave in a way that causes loss of their positive reputation.

Description: This literature review provides insights on emerging technologies that interact with the actuarial profession within the space of microinsurance for the purpose of establishing a frame of reference for actuaries to use in their work. Furthermore, it intends to spark readers’ interest in, and create a vision for, how microinsurance and its associated technologies may impact the actuarial industry in the future.

Description: The aim of this research is to survey emerging data analytics techniques and discuss their evolution and growing use in the actuarial profession. Data analytics’ applications in life and non-life insurance will also be provided.