Description: InsureTech Connect 2021 covered emerging trends and future opportunities for insurance technology. In addition, Society of Actuaries (SOA) staff along with key SOA volunteers who work in the insurtech industry interviewed a variety of attendees to gather further information on these trends. This report covers key trends in the insurtech industry, opportunities for actuaries, and future considerations and observations.

Description: This web page summarizes the research project entitled 'The Effect of Deflation or High Inflation on the Insurance Industry.' The project is comprised of report of the same name, Excel spreadsheets that stochastically model the effects of inflation and deflation, and a users guide for the spreadsheets, all of which can be accessed from this web page.

Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Retirement 20/20 project kicked off in 2006 with a conference titled “Building the Foundations for New Retirement Systems.” The conference focused on needs, risks and roles for the stakeholders in today’s retirement system, and discussed how to make social insurance, private pensions, private savings, annuities and other retirement plans work better in the 21st century. One key theme that emerged was that wherever possible, systems should be designed to self-adjust, specifically to correct for changes in economic and demographic conditions. The Pension Section Council of the SOA commissioned this paper to explore where self-adjusting systems are in place today and what they do and don’t do. Most self-adjusting mechanisms that exist today are in social insurance systems, and they often focus on ways to adjust for changes in longevity. The Pension Section Council hopes that this paper will spur researchers to develop more ways that self-adjusting mechanisms might work to shape social insurance and private retirement plans into the 21st century.

Description: This web site provides an introduction to the 2007 and 2008 surveys regarding policyholder behavior in the tail. The purpose of the surveys is to gather the range of assumptions actuaries use in pricing, reserving, and risk management of minimum guarantees on Variable Annuity products, such as death benefits, income benefits, withdrawal benefits and maturity benefits. A link is provided to the report which is entitled 'Policyholder Behavior in the Tail Risk Management Section Working Group Variable Annuity Guaranteed Benefits 2007 & 2008 Survey Results.'

Description: This paper, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA} ‘Research Projects – Life Insurance,’ sponsored by the Reinsurance Section, Smaller Insurance Company Section and the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Research, examines challenges encountered by smaller insurers in obtaining life reinsurance, the challenges and opportunities life reinsurers face in servicing these companies, and considers some possible solutions that might help to resolve the challenges encountered.

Description: This web page provides an introduction to a research report that explores key factors associated with an insurer's reputational risk. The report examines conditions that would generate incentives for insurers to behave in a way that causes loss of their positive reputation. A link is provided to the report entitled 'Risk Management Determinants of Insurers Reputational Risk,'

Description: This article contains interviews with the directors of three Society of Actuaries departments. Margaret Ann Jordan is the managing director of Information Technology and Services, Tiffany Berger is the director of Finance and Facilities, and Toni Murril is the director of Human Resources.

Description: Feature article about what the SOA’s CPD Requirement means to actuaries.

Description: View the Archive Fall 2018: Financial and Regulatory Environment Exam.

Description: This page contains archived updates for the spring 2012 Retirement Benefits Design and Pricing (DP) Exam - US.