Description: This presentation is a panel discussion from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The panelists will present the results of an intercompany study of disability income reserve practices, dealing with issues such as reserve bases, reserve margins for active and disabled lives, reserve adequacy testing, valuation of riders such as cost of living adjustment, ‘COLA,’ residual, and social insurance, and tax reserves. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.

Description: This paper proposes a new mortality table as a minimum reserve standard for individual annuities - the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table, '1971 IAM Table,' which is given herein. The construction of the new table is described and it is compared with current valuation standards.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Individual Disability Experience Committee has completed their study of claim termination experience for the period 2006-2014 and has produced a report that provides a practical set of changes to the claim termination rates (CTRs) of the 2013 Individual Disability Income Valuation Table to reflect key industry individual disability income (IDI) claim experience trends over this time period. The goal was to have the resulting 2006-2014 IDIET in a workable format to facilitate its implementation.

Description: Fall 2014 syllabus for the Life Finance Exam

Description: This 1979 session is about the New Valuation Mortality Tables for Individual Life Insurance. Topics included: I. The Recommendation of Sex-distinct Tables 2. The Development of Basic Tables - Data Selection, Construction, Graduation 3. Margins and the Development of Loaded Tables 4. Implications for the Industry

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss a 1954 Committee Report on annuitant mortality, and ask if the present bases and valuation standards for individual annuities and settlement options are satisfactory, in light of improving annuitant mortality. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: Table of Contents for the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings.

Description: Table of Contents for the 1992 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This is the excel spreadsheet for appendix G for limited underwriting mortality. The full report describes the development of the 2008 Valuation Basic Table. It incorporates the Primary Tables, the Relative Risk Tables and the Limited Underwriting Tables. Please see SOA website experience studies for the full report and the other appendices.

Description: 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium. This document provides a list of topics and speakers for the 1988 Valuation Actuary Symposium.