Description: The Society of Actuaries is honored to announce the recipients of the Outstanding Session Awards for the 2022 Life Meeting that took place Aug. 23–26.

Description: SOA offers two awards for self-nomination: the SOA Actuarial Science Early Career Research Award and the SOA Outstanding Educator Award. Learn more about each award, including eligibility requirements and the most recent winners.

Description: Actuaries interact with a dizzying array of programs and institutions from around the world-and the many acronyms they use as shorthand-every day. But there are just too many acronyms for anyone to keep straight, and new ones are being added all the time. This web page provides a link to an actuarial acronym reference chart, and provides information as to how actuaries can nominate new acronyms to be added to this chart.

Description: SOA Long Term Care section members enjoy a variety of resources, including reports, commentaries and more.

Description: The section would like to create a page that explains their 2021 themes and council focus.

Description: Actuaries who use modeling come together in SOA's Modeling section to shares ideas and techniques, produce and distribute research and collaborate.

Description: 2001 experience study produced by Manulife Reinsurance on large amounts, defined as $1 million or more, and older age mortality, defined as age 70 and up. Results are separated by sex, smoking status, amount bands, reinsurance status, plan type, underwriting status and others.

Description: This web page contains links to papers, articles and newsletters which are useful to the study of the principles of finance and their application to pension plans. Topics include accounting, assumptions/methods, actuarial standards, behavioral economics, design, financial economics, full funding, immunization, investments, minimum funding, market value, pension finance, PBGC, risk, and traditional defined benefit view. Most of the links are contained within an Excel workbook. For each document contained in the workbook, its abstract or a short synopsis is also included to help the user choose appropriate readings.

Description: This web page contains links to papers, articles and newsletters which are useful to the study of the principles of finance and their application to pension plans. Topics include accounting, assumptions/methods, actuarial standards, behavioral economics, design, financial economics, full funding, immunization, investments, minimum funding, market value, pension finance, PBGC, risk, and traditional defined benefit view. Most of the links are contained within an Excel workbook. For each document listed in the workbook, its abstract or a short synopsis is also included to help the user choose appropriate readings.

Description: Call For Essays: Managing Extreme Event Risk-Reinsurance Tools and Solutions