Description: Introduction to longevity insurance, including product design and a market overview

Description: Life reinsurance activity in Bermuda has experienced rapid growth in recent years. This article explores the key drivers of this growth.

Description: Drivers for mortality are apparently linked to socio-economic differentials within different societal groups. Actuaries are not the only profession interested in unravelling the mystery of why different groups within society experience such different mortality rates. The author gives examples from occupational pension plans in Canada, the UK and Germany.

Description: Article discusses the how the older population has been treated throughout history with low regard and often as a burden on society.

Description: Average life expectancy has increased throughout the ages, but can this life expectancy trend continue indefinitely? From Reinsurance Section News, May 2005, Issue No. 55.

Description: This article discusses the author’s reactions to the Living To 100 Symposium. He summarizes several sessions and concludes by saying his main takeaway from the symposium is that the debate continues as to whether there is a significant chance of finding a way, over the near- or medium-term, to slow the aging process.

Description: Describes benefits of updating homes for aging in place. Calls for stakeholders coalition of: building & tech sectors, LTCI, homecare, health insurance & care.

Description: Panelists discuss the characteristics of and impediments associated with effective management of the long term care insurance market, particularly as it related to pricing, marketing, and underwriting. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 2.

Description: An interview with Prof. Johnny Li of University of Waterloo, which touches upon the subjects of longevity, mortality projections, international collaboration and the Living to 100 Symposium. Longevity is a topic in which scientific research and collaboration successfully spans many countries, which is desirable because the implications of ever increasing life spans is of global importance.

Description: This article discusses how understanding the drivers of mortality and morbidity is essential for identifying and developing suitable business opportunities.