Description: This project aims to understand pension participants’ investment and withdrawal behaviors and provide guidance in pension plan design, using data from China

Description: Climate change is occurring. As a result, insured and uninsured losses are increasing. Billion-dollar (CPI adjusted) disaster events have increased in each decade in which they have been tracked since 1980.

Description: 2023 Board Member Candidate Page for Daniel Pribe

Description: In loving memory of Barbara Lautzenheiser.

Description: The Emerging Issues in Underwriting Survey was intended for direct life writing insurance companies in the US and Canada. The Survey looked at various trends that could have a significant impact on the process and practices of life insurance underwriting in the future.

Description: Kimberley M. Young obituary.

Description: This research initiates the development of a repository of information for existing climate and environmental sustainability research of interest to actuaries.

Description: Dr. Jeremy Gold, FSA, CERA, MAAA, Ph.D., an influential pension actuary and former SOA Board member, passed away peacefully in his sleep on July 6, 2018.

Description: Donald A. McIsaac obituary.

Description: News stories from this past year have included a steady stream of reporting about events associated with climate risk. Photos of devastation from this past summer’s wildfires, deaths caused by heat waves, and suffering from other severe weather events have made clear the far-reaching impact of these events. In addition, there is an increase in concern in longer term non-catastrophic changes (e.g., air quality, higher heat indices, etc.) that may impact such things as land use and health and well-being. As more encounters with these events have occurred, it has become increasingly evident that retirees and those approaching retirement can be both directly and indirectly impacted in their aftermath. This impact may be felt across several broad areas including: retirement investments and the economy; housing; governmental/policy shifts; individual retirement planning and risk assessments, financial institution changes, and additional ill-health and mortality. With these issues in mind, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement, and Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Programs (“sponsors”) have partnered on this research effort to explore this topic from the perspectives of a variety of retirement system stakeholders. The result of this effort is intended to provide a useful resource for readers to become well-grounded on the issues surrounding the impact of climate risk on retirement and set the stage for future research.