The third report of Canadian Insurance Industry Monthly Aggregate Data Analysis from the Canadian Institute of Actuaries is now available, providing data updated to the end of December 2020.
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With almost a year’s exposure to the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact of the virus on Canadian insurers is a topic of interest to actuaries. A CIA Research Council initiative to survey Canadian insurance companies and collect COVID-19 data from their individual and group life business has now produced results. Keith Walter, FCIA, Chair of the Research Council, joins us to provide an overview of...
Western University researchers Bruce Jones, FCIA, and Xiaoming Liu discuss their paper which presents a model for both the aging process and mortality. Although the two are closely related, there has not yet been a mathematical model which connects aging to mortality. This paper, which proposes such a model, was funded by the CIA’s Research Council, through the Academic Research Grant Program.
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