Description: An experience study of individual payout annuities covering calendar years 2009 through 2013.

Description: Follow-up to the first SOA Mortality & Other Implications of PBR Survey to provide in-depth assessment of current state of industry’s preparedness for PBR.

Description: This memorandum is a supplement to the Long Term Care Experience Basic Table (“Experience Table”) that was published bythe Society of Actuaries (“SOA”) in April 2015 and revised in July 2015.

Description: What is the cost of providing a prescription drug benefit plan for Medicare enrollees? The following research report: Projected Cost Analysis of Potential Medicare Pharmacy Plan Designs, sponsored by the Society of Actuaries Health Section and Health Practice Area, explores this important and pressing issue that has been the subject of recent front page headlines.

Description: Describes substandard annuities and discusses the market opportunity for them, the associated risk management issues, and the issues companies need to address when competing in the substandard annuity market - underwriting, pricing, sales, administration, financial reporting and risk management practices.

Description: This report is a follow-up to the 2018 Group Long-Term Disability Experience Study Report. This report analyses the same dataset, but focuses on the new variables that are included with that dataset, and also details the application of various Predictive Analytics techniques to the data.

Description: This web site provides an introduction to a report that explores the linkage between risk management, capital management and financial management within insurance companies and other industries. The report was motivated by a desire to examine how companies can institute processes and infrastructure to optimize the interaction between these critical functional areas. A link is provided to the report which is entitled 'Complete Report - Linkage of Risk Management, Capital Management and Financial Management.'

Description: This is the seventh experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 27 US life insurance companies.

Description: Survey results for 2008 produced by the Policyholder Behavior in the Tail Risk Management Section Working Group in which insurers were asked about assumptions used with respect to policyholder behavior in universal life policies with secondary guarantees.

Description: This paper is intended to be a resource for actuaries and other professionals interested in learning more about longevity risk. It summarizes the results of the literature review by discussing observed trends and outlook on mortality, development of retirement markets, ways to mitigate risk, summary of products with risk exposure and quantification and management of the risk.