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: The Retirement Plans Experience Committee (RPEC) hired Ernst & Young to perform a literature review and assessment of mortality improvement rates in the United States population.

Description: Mortality in the U.S. states at ages 80 and older and over years 1959–2011 analyzed and compared with mortality levels in 13 high-longevity countries.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 symposium, January 2011. This paper investigates dynamic properties of age trajectories of physiological indices and their effects on mortality risk and longevity using longitudinal data on more than 5,000 individuals collected in biannual examinations of the Framingham Heart Study original age group during about 50 subsequent years of follow up.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This study adapts the idea of regular discount sequence in the bandit problem, and uses it to interpret life expectancy, as well as to develop a model for survival probabilities. Data came from multiple countries.

Description: The abstract for the paper Data Sources, Quality and Analyses - Number of Centenarians in the United States 1/1/1990, 1/1/2000, and 1/1/2010 Based on Improved Medicare Data.

Description: The purpose of this discussion is to broaden the perspective of the practicing actuary by discussing the possible effects of genetic engineering on our policyholders and clients. To this end, we will be describing genetic engineering and the part if may play in changes in longevity. We will also be discussing the effect of such changes on current mortality trends and will comment on how actuaries can anticipate and respond to such changes. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: This is the informal discussion transcript for Session 4A: Longevity in the Public Eye from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper explores the select period and the wealth effect at older ages, and also examines mortality rates for three distinct senior populations: 1. the U.S. population, through an annual sample of the Medicare database of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2. the life settlement population of an independent life settlement underwriter, 21st Services LLC, and 3. the population implied by the Society of Actuaries' 2008 Valuation Basic Tables VBT.

Description: This is the author's reply to Dr. Kingkade's discussion of the referenced paper. The author supplies written citations to old age and indicates he does not believe in any fixed limit to the human lifespan.