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Description: The manner in which the actuarial profession models and manages mortality risk is undergoing dramatic changes. New modeling techniques have led to better risk management tools. Capital markets solutions are evolving for insurers wishing to protect against unfavorable mortality developments in both life insurance and annuity products. In this session recent key developments in mortality modeling and in the transfer of mortality risk are examined. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3: Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York, NY, October 24-27, 2004, Session 133 TS.

Description: Study showing group annuity mortality experience for the year 1952 by attained age for lives retiring priot to, on and after normal retirement date.

Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: Based on work performed by Bob Howard, a former member of RPEC, the SOA developed a spreadsheet-based program that allows users to create a customized mortality improvement scale using the RPEC_2014 model. The RPEC_2014_v2018 model found here is a new version of the tool updated by the SOA and RPEC to reflect historical U.S. mortality experience through 2016. The tool can be used to model different assumption sets while utilizing the same methodology underpinning the development of Scale MP-2018.

Description: The Early Duration Claims Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed their report on the results of a survey on life insurance claims in early policy durations.

Description: This experience is predominantly based on retired lives, which includes benefit payments made under ongoing pension plans, terminated plans pension closeouts, partially guaranteed arrangements, such as certain Immediate Participation Guarantee contracts and non-guaranteed arrangements.

Description: This report presents the 1997 and 1998 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada. Data for calendar years 1993 through 1996 are also included to provide a comparison with 1997 and 1998 experience and to provide information on mortality trends over time.