Description: The life annuity mortality risk is the variation in actual financial experience of a group of annuitants from that expected, attributable to the mortality experience of the group. This paper investigated the mortality risk present in a single life annuity and determine the effect of age, sex, assumed interest rate, mortality table, and form of annuity on this risk. Then, it investigated the mortality risk in various portfolios of annuities. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: This statement is an expression of opinion by the Committee on Actuarial Principles regarding the identification of actuarial principles to be considered for adoption by SOA membership. This covers the following types of principles: statistical, economic and financial, modeling, risk management.

Description: This session at the SOA 1990 Annual Meeting looks at recent and pending social security legislation, the 1990 Trustees Report, and the Moynihan proposal to move to pay-as-you-go financing.

Description: This report presents the results of the 1986-92 Credit Risk Event 'CRE' Loss Experience Study which represents a continuation of the 1986-89 pilot study analyzing loss experience by institutional investors on private placement bonds. This continuing study is being conducted under the auspices of the Society of Actuaries and involves thirteen institutional investors which accounted for between 34% and 42% of outstanding life insurance company private placement bond holdings during the study period. The study measures incidence rates, loss severities and economic loss rates associated with credit risk events for privately placed debt during the years 1986-92. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1997-98 Reports.

Description: At its November meeting, the Society of Actuaries Board considered the report of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force and approved the Task Force's recommendations regarding accreditation and 'alternative route'.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999 Presenters offer a preview of an actual Course 7 dealing with applied modeling.

Description: The SOA Board considered the report of the Accreditation Implementation Task Force, approved the Task Force's two recommendations and initiated an Alternate Route study task force.

Description: This presentation highlights the importance of communication skills, ethics and professionalism in being a successful actuary.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session on credit risk presented a comparative survey of recent and ongoing research related to asset credit risk, and it provided analysis of SOA 1986-89 credit risk data.

Description: It is the objective of this paper to highlight and analyze the difference in funding level per participant in the context of a specific situation when determined on an aggregate basis versus an individual basis. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1986, Vol. 38.