Description: This study develops mortality ratios, using contemporary population tables as the base, for the 897 Fellows of the two predecessor bodies to the present Society observed to anniversaries in 1985. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the studies made leading to the construction of the new valuation table and the 1961 minimum gross premium rates for group term life insurance.

Description: Report presenting the 1987 and 1988 experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the United States and Canada. Data from years 1983 - 1986 are also included to provide a comparison with 1987 and 1988 experience.

Description: Report presents primarily new data available from the past year. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1966 Reports.

Description: These were discussion papers on the paper, 'The Korean War Hazard' by James T. Phillips.

Description: This 1963 report presents the past year's aviation statistics and data for earlier periods, covering aviation fatality rates for different classes of pilots and others.

Description: This report presents the formal recommendation for a new mortality basis for individual annuity valuations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This reports on a survey that looks at the mortality experience of Industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for the postwar years of 1946 to 1950. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: In this paper the authors discuss the official decennial Unites States Life Tables for 1979-81, presenting age-specific mortality rates and expectations of life. Mortality trends are examined going back to the first decennial tables published at the beginning of the century, and brief comparisons with mortality in other industrialized countries are made. The paper includes written discussion. From the 1985 Transactions Vol. 37.

Description: In an increasing population the number of persons falls off from age to age more rapidly than does the stationary population of the life table. This can introduce a systematic bias into life table calculations. The first part of the paper describes an iterative procedure to correct for the bias, extends the method to multiple decrement and associated single decrement life tables, and demonstrates the magnitude of the bias involved. The second part of the paper summarizes the results of applying iterative life table techniques to 165 populations which encompass over a century's experience and include countries from all parts of the world. Followed by discussions submitted by several people