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Report 4: COVID-19 Canadian Insurance Industry Monthly Aggregate Data Analysis

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to run its course throughout the world and in Canada, our collective understanding of the virus and its impact grows. Research projects and data collection efforts are happening on many fronts, and the Canadian Institute […]

Research paper – Covid-19: Setting the stage for a basic minimum income plan

Canada has some experience with minimum income experiments; the 1970s Mincome experiment in three Manitoba towns is an example. The costs of the experiment were shared by the federal and provincial governments (Forget 2018). In 2016, Ontario announced a pilot […]

Research report: Canadian Individual Life Experience for Policy Year 2018-2019 – Database for the last 5 years combined

This zip file contains mortality databases (and text files describing them) for the last five policy years combined. It is referred to in the 70th annual report of the intercompany mortality experience for Canadian individual life insurance policies.

Research report: Canadian Individual Life Experience for Policy Year 2018-2019 – Database for last 10 years

This zip file contains mortality databases (and text files describing them) for each of the last ten policy years. It is referred to in the 70th annual report of the intercompany mortality experience for Canadian individual life insurance policies. *The […]

Research report: Canadian Individual Life Experience for Policy Year 2018-2019 – Tables for last 5 policy years

This workbook contains detailed tables of mortality experience for the five policy years 2014–2019. It is a supplement to the 70th annual report of the intercompany mortality experience for Canadian individual life insurance policies. *The tables have been updated in […]

Research report: Canadian Individual Life Experience for Policy Year 2018-2019

This is the 70th annual report of the intercompany mortality experience for Canadian individual life insurance policies. The study covers the one-year period beginning with the policy anniversary in 2018 on an age-nearest-birthday basis. *The document has been updated in […]

Research paper: Challenges Faced by Canadian Women in the Alone Stage of Retirement

We define the “alone stage of retirement” (ASR) and present statistics regarding those living in Canada in the ASR. Among those living in the ASR, there are more women than men, and on average women tend to be poorer than […]

Canadian Individual Life Experience: Interim Study to 2020Q2

This is an interim study of the mortality experience of individual insurance policies. It uses data in the same form as for the annual mortality study, but rather than including the full policy year from the anniversary in 2019 to […]

2020 Retirement Risk Survey – Key Findings

This report provides an overview of key results of an online survey conducted by Ipsos on behalf of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) in 2020. Ipsos previously conducted a retirement risk survey for the CIA in 2010 with a […]

Member’s paper: Driving Longevity through Educational Attainment – A Literature Review

This paper is based on a literature review of 42 papers, all of which comment on the connection between educational attainment and longevity. Unfortunately, only the paper by Willson (2009) and some of the OECD analysis used any Canadian data. […]