Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session describes the big tent vs. little tent approach to the actuarial profession's future and relates these to the Quantum vs. Newtonian ways of thinking.

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet showing Appendix F, Relative Risk, of the 2008 Valuation Basic Table Report and Tables. The full report describes the development of the 2008 Valuation Basic Tables. It incorporates the Primary Tables, the Relative Risk Tables, and the Limited Underwriting tables. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and all other related tables.

Description: Article from The Actuary September 1992 – Volume 26, No. 7 is about Group Annuity Mortality Valuation Standard

Description: Article from The Actuary, November 1998 – volume 32 - Issue 9: Bernard Dussault was dismissed by Canada’s superintendent of financial institutions, John Palmer, in late August from the position of chief government actuary and chief actuary for the Canada Pension Plan (CPP), the Canadian equivalent of the U.S. old-age survivors disability income portion of the Social Security system.

Description: The Milliman extension to the 1975-80 basic tables used for the 2005-07 Individual Life Experience Study. See the SOA website, research section, for the complete report.

Description: This annual survey of long-term lapsation prepared by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association examines the experience of ordinary insurance in the U.S. between 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries.

Description: The public relations campaign for this year’s Centennial Celebration of the actuarial profession took off strong with the first “Forecast 2000” forum conducted April 25 in Miami. One of the forum's topics was a survey about long term care in the future.

Description: In session 83D of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss the option of using mortality improvements in pricing of life insurance products as an Actuarial Standard of Practice ASOP. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Sent to potential participants to gather information to better evaluate mortality experience.

Description: This presentation from Session 18 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses how insured mortality has changed during the past 30 years, which published mortality tables are most appropriate to use in today's pricing environment with the proliferation of preferred risk plans, what factors have historically contributed to mortality improvement assumptions, and how underwriting requirements should be coordinated with setting price assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.