Description: The Society of Actuaries’ Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to release a literature review on the impacts of healthy lifestyle behaviors and chronic condition management, providing a resource for actuaries and others on these issues.

Description: This report provides results from a recently conducted study using the AIR Wildfire Model for the United States and available climate and climate change information to estimate how climate change may influence wildfire losses to U.S. property by mid-century. The climate change conditioned catalogs were used to evaluate climate change impacts (relative change in losses) to the AIR Worldwide US Industry Exposure Database, with all factors other than area burned held constant.

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: A recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.

Description: Based on work performed by Bob Howard, a former member of RPEC, the SOA developed a spreadsheet-based program that allows users to create a customized mortality improvement scale using the RPEC_2014 model.

Description: In Memory of Alan Mark Emmer

Description: In Memory of Susan M. Lamb

Description: This report describes the results of the latest intercompany study of mortality experience under Structured Settlement annuities.

Description: 2021 Generally Recognized Expense Table (GRET) recommendations.

Description: This paper has been published by the Catastrophe and Climate Strategic Research Program of the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and is intended to be a part of ongoing education for actuaries on the topic of climate risks.