Research Insights, a Society of Actuaries Podcast

Listen to authors, Anitha Rao, MD, MA, CEO and Founder of Neurocern and Robert Eaton FSA, MAAA, Principal & Consulting Actuary at Milliman discuss  Dementia Neurology Deserts and Long-Term Care Insurance Claims Experience in the United States   with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

Listen to Steve Vernon, F.S.A., President of Rest-of-Life Communications and a Research Scholar for the Stanford Center on Longevity discuss the Redefining the Goal of Retirement Planning – Essay Collection with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

Listen to guest hosts, Lisa A. Schilling, SOA  Senior Research Actuary and Carlos Arocha, Chair of the 2021 SOA Student Research Case Study Challenge and Managing Partner at Arocha & Associates in Zurich, Switzerland, talk with the 1st place team from Indiana University; Alex Farrar, Eric Herbst, and Michael Mosley. The students discuss how they worked through the challenge and ultimately produced...

Listen to Achilles Natsis, FSA, MAAA, FLMI, SOA Health Research Actuary, Susan Pantely, FSA, Principal & Consulting Actuary at Milliman, and Greger Vigen, Independent Health Actuary discuss Patient Centered Medical Homes and Healthcare Costs   with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

Listen to Eric Berg and Sam Lippe from With You In Mind discuss the impact of COVID-19 on insurance company first quarter, 2021 earnings with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org

Listen to Ronora Stryker, ASA, MAAA. SOA Senior Practice Research Actuary and Patrick Wiese, ASA, SOA Lead Modeling Researcher discuss The Mortality Improvement Model , MIM-2021  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org

This podcast previews the SOA 2021 Health Meeting , a premier virtual event, which is informative to your career as an actuary, a great value and fun! Podcast host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research chats with Craig Kalman, FSA, MAAA, FHFMA, Health Meeting Chairperson and Achilles Natsis, FSA, MAAA, FLMI, SOA Health Research Actuary. June is Health Month at the...

Listen to SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys members Joel Jones, AALU; Scott Morrow, FSA, MAAA; and Norm Leblond, FALU discuss the Emerging Issues in Underwriting Survey Report with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org

Listen to Pete Miller, ASA, MAAA, SOA Experience Studies Actuary and Mike Bergerson, FSA, MAAA, Principal and Consulting Actuary at Milliman and one of the report authors discuss COVID-19 Impact on Long-Term Care Insurance  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org

Listen to Jim Timmins, founder of Breakthrough Development LLC and author of  A Primer on Insurance Policies and Genetics discuss this new research with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

Listen to Margaret Conroy, PhD, MAAA, FCAS, Principal of Analytic Solutions, LLC and contributing author of the Environmental Risk Series , and Priya Rohatgi, ASA, Chairperson of the Project Oversight Group for this new research, discuss this research report series with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchins...

Listen to Dr. Ruilin Tian, Ph. D., Professor of Finance, North Dakota State University and Caspar Young FSA, FCIA, CERA discuss De-risking Strategies of Defined Benefit Plans: Empirical Evidence from the United States  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org

Listen to Marti DeLiema, PhD, Assistant Research Professor at the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, and Steve Vernon, F.S.A., President of Rest-of-Life Communications and a research scholar for the Stanford Center on Longevity discuss Thinking Ahead: Informing the Design of a Roadmap for Keeping Your Money Safe as You Age  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Mana...

Listen to Brian Hartman, ASA, PhD, associate professor of statistics and actuarial program coordinator at Brigham Young University discuss Auto Loss Costs: Dynamic Linear Models with Changepoints  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

Listen to Henry Chen, FSA, FCIA, MAAA, Manager at EY and Chair of the AIT Research Steering Committee and Kevin Pledge, CEO and Founder of Acceptiv discuss emerging themes in AIT research with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. Review the wide variety of AIT research published, SOA AIT Research . We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@so...

Listen to Dave Ingram, FSA, MAAA CERA, FRM, PRM discuss COVID-19 Mitigations in the U.S.  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

This podcast provides guidance and direction for the 2021 Society of Actuaries Student Research Case Study Challenge.

The Society of Actuaries (SOA) released a new report on emerging trends in U.S. population mortality . The report uses data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report includes the CDC's 2019 mortality experience, along with prior mortality experience data from 1999 through 2018.  Listen to Cindy MacDonald, FSA,MAAA, SOA Senior Experience Studies Actuary and Jerry Ho...

Listen to Sam Gutterman, FSA, FCAS, CERA, MAAA, FCA, HonFIA discuss Social Discounting - Application to the Risk Management of Climate Change  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org.

Listen to John Bertko, FSA, MAAA, an independent actuarial consultant working as the Chief Actuary with Covered California and Steve Goss, ASA, MAAA, Chief Actuary at the Social Security Administration discuss actuarial practice impact of a new U.S. administration with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. This podcast was recorded during the time period Dece...

Listen to SOA research actuaries Mervyn Kopinsky, Cynthia MacDonald, Achilles Natsis, Lisa Schilling, Steven Siegel, and Ronora Stryker look ahead to 2021, both personally and professionally, with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org

Listen to SOA research actuaries Mervyn Kopinsky, Cynthia MacDonald, Achilles Natsis, Lisa Schilling, Steven Siegel, and Ronora Stryker look back on 2020, both personally and professionally, with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@soa.org

Listen to Ronora Stryker , ASA, MAAA, SOA Senior Practice Research Actuary; Prof. James Vaupel from the Danish Center for Demographic Research at the  University of Southern Denmark; and Dr. Erwin Tan, MD, Director at AARP Thought Leadership Health discuss the  2020 Living to 100 Monograph 's Demographic Perspectives on the Rise of Longevity from Session 4A: Mortality Patterns with host, R. Dale H...

Listen to Achilles Natsis, FSA, MAAA, FLMI, SOA Health Research Actuary and Rachel Everhart, PhD, Director of Research for the Ambulatory Care Department at Denver Health discuss Comparing Measures of Social Determinants of Health to Assess Population Risk   with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Research. We welcome your questions or comments at researchinsights@s...

Listen to Ronora Stryker, ASA, MAAA, SOA Senior Practice Research Actuary and Magali Barbieri, report author, demographer and head of the Human Mortality Database and the United States Mortality DataBase projects at the University of California, Berkeley discuss Mortality By Socioeconomic Category in the United States  with host, R. Dale Hall, FSA, CERA, MAAA, CFA, SOA Managing Director of Researc...