Description: This report covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1976 and 1977 policy anniversaries, and also for the period between 1972 and 1977 policy anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: This covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1975 and 1976 policy anniversaries, and also for the period between 1971 and 1976 policy anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: This 1976 report report covers the inter-company mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1974 and 1975 anniversaries, and also for the period between 1970 and 1975 anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: This 1975 report was the then latest in a series of annual reports on intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary life insurance policies. This was based on issues between 1973 and 1974 anniversaries, and also for the period between 1969 and 1974 anniversaries where one year's exposure provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: This 1978 SOA session presented some provisional findings of the new Build and Blood Pressure Study. Some of the findings: 1. The average weights of men in the new study exceed the corresponding weights in the previous 1959 study by 2 to 8 pounds in the thirties, and by up to 5 pounds in the fifties. 2. The mortality ratios of overweight men are not significantly different in the new study from those in the 1959 study. 3. Markedly overweight men experienced lower mortality in the current study than in the 1959 study. 4. Men weighing 20 percent below average recorded 10 to 15 percent higher mortality in the new study than in the 1959 study. 5. Mortality of overweight women is relatively lower than that of overweight men. 6. Mortality of men with elevated systolic and diastolic pressures was appreciably lower than in the 1959 study. 7. Mortality of women with moderately elevated systolic and diastolic pressures was not significantly different from that in the 1959 study. 8. The presence of minor impairments alongside of blood pressures in excess of 150/90 usually produced significant increases in mortality.

Description: This paper by the SOA Committee on HIV research builds on past work to show three projections of the future of the AIDS epidemic. These scenarios can provide information to actuaries in considering the financial impact of AIDS for life and health insurance. The paper develops general population AIDS mortality rates related to the three scenarios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: The Q&A’s contain additional background information on the development, application and impact of Scale BB. Scale BB was introduced in March 2012 as an interim mortality improvement scale which may be used by pension actuaries until work on a formal successor to the widely used improvement scale, Scale AA, is complete.

Description: Presented at October 1985 Annual Meeting. Discusses how much of the sex mortality differential is due to smoking habits, how convincing are existing studies, what do worldwide trends in mortality suggest about the effects of smoking and on mortality, how well do insurers classify the smoking risk, and the United States Life Tables for 1979-81 paper by Myers and Bayo.

Description: This paper discusses and provides the 1958 CSO and CET Mortality Tables on the Age Last Birthday Basis.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2002. This paper presents data on the mortality, and mortality improvement trends, for retired U.S. Civil Service employees and their survivors, and analyzes the relationship to such factors as: Indexed final salary, Amount of indexed annuity, Total service at retirement, Duration on the Annuity Rolls, Retiree vs. beneficiary, Disability vs. non-disability.