Description: The landscape of climate-related and sustainability-related disclosures has been changing and evolving. The approaches that companies will use under the new ISSB standards (IFRS - IFRS S1, IFRS - IFRS S2) remains to be seen. To help prepare for these standards taking effect, the SOA Research Institute Catastrophe & Climate Strategic Research Program Steering Committee is seeking researchers to conduct a literature search to lay out methodologies and approaches being considered to implement these new standards, along with common terminology and common language determination in the approaches.

Description: Innovation is known to be challenging. It creates discomfort for others used to the current way of doing business, and there is always the risk of failure. Innovation is a type of change and change is difficult for companies to manage. Reacting to pandemics or new regulations requires a lot of effort, but the need is clear and urgent. How do you muster the effort to tackle an optional change that holds the promise of future benefits and current sacrifice?

Description: The Society of Actuaries Long Term Care Insurance and Health Sections are seeking researchers to author a primer on long-term care insurance wellness programs. The underlying motivation for this effort is to educate actuaries on these programs and provide a useful resource for understanding their benefits, structure and limitations.

Description: The SOA Research Institute Health Care Cost Trends Strategic Research Program and Health Section Council Committees are seeking researchers to compare the intended effects of the ACA and its amendments since the implementation of each provision.

Description: This request for proposals for research studies on measuring and modeling climate liability risks outlines the background, objectives, proposal requirements, selection process, submission details, conditions, and other pertinent information for interested researchers.

Description: AI Insights for Actuaries: A Virtual Symposium

Description: This document is a call for essays issued by the Society of Actuaries Research Institute. It seeks submissions that explore the impact of Artificial Intelligence/Large Language Models on retirement professionals and retirees. The document provides background information, research objectives, and a list of illustrative topics and questions that the essays can address. The submission guidelines, timeline, and evaluation criteria are also outlined.

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Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute isdedicated to advancing education and research for the actuarial profession. Aspart of its mission, the SOA Research Institute recognizes the importance ofpartnering with colleges and universities to help develop future actuaries.With this in mind, the SOA Research Institute holds an annual Student ResearchCase Study Challenge, which provides an opportunity for teams of students toapply their actuarial skills on a real-world problem in a business setting.

Description: The SOA is holding a Student Research Case Study Challenge, which provides an opportunity for teams of students to apply their actuarial skills on a real world problem. Over the course of eight weeks, teams of up to five students research a given case study, conduct actuarial analysis, formulate solutions and present recommendations. Finalists are invited to present to a panel of SOA judges for top awards. All teams who meet a minimum standard are recognized in official SOA publications.