Description: The insurance reserve for an individual contract can be pictured as a quantity which changes continuously from moment to moment in response to the forces of interest and mortality. A different mathematical model arises for each method of defining the death benefit, and in this paper a number of such mathematical models are analyzed. Followed by discussion papers submitted by several authors

Description: The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that the long-term trends in the rate of company expansion affect policyholder costs and estimate the amount of the impact. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: Full version of International Section News, November 2005, Issue No. 37.

Description: Discussion of the proportion of the increase in life expectancy at a given age that can be attributed to the change in mortality rates at and over some higher age and methods as to how this proportion can be measured. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: Full version of International Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 20.

Description: Full version of International Section News, June 2001, Issue No. 25.

Description: In this paper, David H. Berne demonstrates mathematically how insurance and annuity premiums can be expressed as weighted averages of compound interest functions. These concepts are expanded on in the paper and discussion. The author noted his approach was to demonstrate the averaging process that goes into the development of actuarial present values, and to provide a new look at the meaning and use of weighted averages. From the 1961 Transactions Vol. 13, No. 36 AB.

Description: Describes highlights of Egyptian insurance market.

Description: A discussion of the Egyptian Society of Actuaries, founded in February 1999

Description: Attempts to construct an abridged mortality table from the scant data available. The number of persons exposed is 291, among whom there have been 184 deaths.