Life insurance

Heightened risk awareness following the COVID-19 pandemic will help drive the value of global insurance premiums above $7trn (£5.2trn) for the first time next year, Swiss Re has forecast.

Andrés M Villegas, Salvatory Kessy, Michael Sherris, Dilan SriDaran and Jonathan Ziveyi propose a new statistical learning paradigm for mortality modelling

Sid Malik talks to Dan Georgescu about the wide-ranging and boundary-bridging actuarial roles carried out at the Prudential Regulation Authority, as well as the pressing issues it is currently tackling

Matthew Edwards and Stuart McDonald look back on the role played by the COVID-19 Actuaries Response Group during the past year

Cobus Daneel and Jon Palin describe the challenges in producing the CMI’s Mortality Projections Model for 2020

Raj Saundh, Alex Davis and Alex Mockridge consider what is next for the equity release mortgage market

Han Li and Qihe Tang search for evidence linking extremes in temperature with mortality

Pamela Hellig considers whether vaccination against COVID-19 and other diseases should be a rating factor for life insurance

Peter Murphy and Marco Radun share a technique for improving the accuracy of proxy models

Adele Groyer and John O’Brien assess the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on claims in 2020, and how this might play out