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_O2_v2018 model found here utilizes the same projection methodology underpinning the RPEC_2014 model except that the historical rates have been developed using “order-2” Whittaker-Henderson graduation rather than “order-3”.

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 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: 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: This report presents the findings of the 1954 inter-company study of the mortality on policies for large amounts.

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: In 2008, the Society of Actuaries Retirement Plans Experience Committee undertook a new pension plan mortality study. The ultimate goal of the study was to update the RP–2000 Mortality Table. This is a zip file containing the three documents which comprised the study's data request.

Description: The 1980 CSO Tables were developed by the Special Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation to replace the existing 1958 CSO Tables as the minimum standard for valuation. This paper presents the new tables and recommendations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.