Description: In 2005, the NAIC Life and Health Actuarial Task Force asked the actuarial professional bodies to develop mortality tables to better reflect actual mortality for reserving. The Preferred Mortality team made a presentation at the March 2008 LHATF meeting about the margins that should be used in developing the Valuation Tables. This paper and accompanying spreadsheet is intended to provide the information requested at that meeting.

Description: 1991-1995 individual life experience studies table.

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

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

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

Description: 1990 Valuation Actuary Symposium Proceedings table of contents

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: The Society of Actuaries and LIMRA have sponsored a U.S. Individual Disability Income Persistency Study. The report, authored by Cathy Ho and Steve Elek, presents the results of a study of individual disability income (“IDI”) lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2000 and 2007. This is the first report in a two-part series that will present results of a study conducted jointly by LIMRA and the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and based on data provided by 12 individual disability income insurance writers.

Description: Statement that the SOA has formed a task force to address the morbidity tables used for minimum reserves of individual and group health insurance contracts. Issue No. 35.

Description: Questions and answers related to the implementation of the 2012 Individual Annuity Reserving Table, including a projection scale example.