Description: Feature article from the January 2010 issue of In The Public Interest discussing whether or not the retirement age needs to be increased.

Description: Part 5 addresses various purposes for measuring a public sector pension liability and which measures have the most practical usefulness.

Description: Despite a considerable accumulation of empirical and theoretical evidence in the last two decades in favor of a slowdown in the rate of mortality increase with age, the veracity of mortality deceleration observed at very old ages among humans was recently called into question on the basis of: (1) inaccurate data, (2) invalid assumptions, and/or (3) inadequate mixture of birth cohorts with different mortality experiences. In this article, we use a highly reliable set of individual-level data on French-Canadians centenarians born between 1870 and 1896 and who died between 1970 and 2009 to compute new estimates of the age-trajectory of mortality at ages 100 and over. Our results suggest that the rate of mortality increase with age tends to slow down at very old ages, even when special care is taken to avoid issues (1) to (3) outlined above.

Description: Study of the Effect of a Flu Pandemic on Economic Values Using the Delphi Method

Description: Panelists at an Annual Meeting session discuss the actuarial world and current state of the life insurance industry .

Description: This paper, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA} ‘Research Projects – Finance/Investment,’ is presented by the SOA’s Committee on Finance Research. This research project, jointly sponsored by the SOA and the Casualty Actuarial Society [CAS], explores economic series and provides an Excel-based tool for generating future economic scenarios. In addition to the paper, which includes an excel workbook containing results of model simulations, there are the following appendices - Appendix A, a 26 page ‘user’s guide,’ Appendix B, a 91 page document entitled ‘Presentations of This Research,’ Appendix C, a zipped file containing hundreds of scenarios i.e., simulation paths of financial and economic variables, generated as output from the Financial Scenario Model, and Appendix D, the model itself in an Excel workbook.

Description: Changes in Medical Trend Because of Provider Disruptions

Description: The abstract for the paper The Importance of Being Transparent: Theory and Implementation Specifics for an Integrated Risk Measurement Model for P&C Companies.

Description: Web page for posting research paper that explores the impact of ETS exposure on mortality and morbidity and the possible related consequences for the insurance industry.

Description: Most industry professionals acknowledge that funding retirement needs will almost always require disciplined savings over a period of decades. Today, we are less than 30 years from the second half of the 21st Century. However, a majority of the Millennial and Gen Z generations are either not eligible for or are not using today's tax-preferred options for funding retiree medical and Long Term Care (LTC).