Description: Lincoln Financial Group announced the beginning of a two-year data and analytics talent upskilling program with the Society of Actuaries, a global professional organization for actuaries. The SOA will facilitate training for Lincoln employees through a customized multi-phase educational program focusing on big data and predictive analytics.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Board of Directors voted at their June 11-12, 2022 meeting to approve a transition extension for certain Fellow of the SOA (FSA) candidates. The extension applies to Fellowship candidates who attained the ASA designation by July 1, 2018. These candidates are exempt from passing the Predictive Analytics exam if they complete all requirements for FSA (including the Fellowship Admissions Course) prior to the new deadline of January 1, 2024.

Description: The editorial board of the North American Actuarial Journal (NAAJ) announces the recipient of the NAAJ Annual Prize for the best paper published in 2023, “The Economic Impact of Extreme Cyber Risk Scenarios,” coauthored by Martin Eling, Mauro Elvedi, and Dr. Greg Falco. The NAAJ is the scholarly journal of the Society of Actuaries (SOA).

Description: The Society of Actuaries announced the six actuarial candidates named as SOA James C. Hickman Scholars. The Hickman Scholars Program provides stipends to doctoral candidates working on actuarial research and education, with this year being the first to include international candidates.

Description: Organizations representing the actuarial profession in Canada and the United States have applied an improved methodology to the Actuaries Climate Index® starting with newly released ACI data for fall 2018, and the latest data show the previously reported upward trend in the key five-year moving average ACI metric continues.

Description: News release announcing York University in Canada has received the CAE designation.

Description: The SOA and Milliman announce the completion of the first certificate program focused on measuring and managing climate risk for actuaries. The Climate Change Risk Certificate Program pairs the risk management acumen of actuaries with the interdisciplinary expertise necessary to manage the complexity of climate risk.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute, in collaboration with Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated, a leading global life and health reinsurer, announced findings from new research on behavioral science for the life insurance sector. This research simulated online term life insurance purchasing to test behavioral science techniques.

Description: News release announcing the winners of the 2025 Student Research Case Study Challenge

Description: The five-year moving average of the Actuaries Climate Index (ACI) reached a new high for the sixth consecutive quarter, according to the latest data release that includes summer 2019.