Description: This report documents updates to the Canadian mortality data in both the Human Mortality Database and the Canadian Human Mortality Database, including new data for 2022–2023.

Description: The document is a Call for Essays from the Society of Actuaries Research Institute. Share your real-world experiences with AI in actuarial work—challenges, wins, and lessons—to shape the future of the profession.

Description: 2009 Risks and Process of Retirement Survey Report of Findings

Description: On an annual basis, the Retirement Plan Experience Committee (RPEC) uses national-level data sources to study recent U.S. general population mortality trends. RPEC summarizes this data in an annual report, and, when appropriate, uses the data to develop a new mortality projection (MP) scale. The webcast will present RPEC’s most recent analysis, covering data from 2019 through June 2025, and will explain RPEC’s decision in recent years not to issue a new mortality projection scale. In addition, the webcast will provide a demonstration of the calculation tool that RPEC uses to analyze recent mortality data. This tool can be downloaded from the SOA’s website.

Description: Healthcare cost trends remain a cornerstone of actuarial practice and forecasting for employer-sponsored health plans. This session will examine recent and emerging healthcare drivers of medical and prescription drug trends using data and methodologies drawn from two research efforts focusing on projecting trends and total cost of care.

Description: Intro to Takaful

Description: Retakaful