Description: Take advantage of the actuarial modeling tools, tables and calculators brought to you by the SOA.

Description: When annuity products became prevalent in the U.S., they all looked more or less the same. It was where folks put their safe retirement money, yielding modest guaranteed returns with a menu of payout options to help secure their retirement. Over time, this commoditization lead to a pricing squeeze and an exhaustive set of product options and features, exposing carriers to market and policyholder behavior risk over the past decade or so.

Description: Odd patterns in mortality curves can be caused by bad data. The author hypothesizes that the negatively sloped mortality rates at the highest ages for U.S. males are caused by overstating age at death, and the low mortality rates for Japanese females by failure to report deaths. The paper upholds the first hypothesis but soundly defeats the second. The paper also demonstrates the impact of mishandling incurred but unreported deaths.

Description: Abstract: Odd patterns in mortality curves can be caused by bad data. The author hypothesizes that the negatively sloped mortality rates at the highest ages for U.S. males are caused by overstating age at death, and the low mortality rates for Japanese females by failure to report deaths. The paper upholds the first hypothesis but soundly defeats the second. The paper also demonstrates the impact of mishandling incurred but unreported deaths.

Description: This is a web page for the 2007-10 Group Annuity Mortality Experience Report.

Description: This study is the latest in continuing reports on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study focuses on the trends over the 1995–2000 period and includes individual year results.

Description: The 2000-01 Report and files have been removed from the website because the values therein seem too high relative to the subsequent 2002-04 Report.

Description: This is a table that provides Non-Viet Nam Mortality Experience for Calendar Years 1970 to 1972 combined by branch of service and age. This was supplied by Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance. From The Actuary Vol. 7, No. 10.

Description: Speakers provide insights for adjusting historical and future mortality for COVID-19. Recent Society of Actuaries research examining historical U.S. population mortality by socioeconomic category and methodologies for removing the impact of COVID-19 from mortality rates will be presented. Additionally, results from an expert opinion survey on COVID-19 and future mortality will be discussed. Thoughts on how companies are utilizing external and internal sources to modify mortality assumptions/models for COVID-19 will be shared.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting covers recent legislative and regulatory developments in the U.S. and Canada including the ownership of the surplus in a pension plan, the CIA discipline process, the Department of Labor's DOL's 'safest available annuity provider' rule and tax issues on deferred compensation plans. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3a.