Description: This paper presents basic data with regard to the decennial United States life tables for 1969-71, analyzes the data in comparison to previous U.S. life tables and compares mortality between the U.S. and Canada, England, and Sweden. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol 28.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Pension Plans - Provisions for Termination of Plan by Dorrance C. Bronson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955, Vol. 7, No. 19.

Description: The actuarial profession is faced with a problem of determining delta-ized reserves on a basis which will include appropriate provision for adverse deviations in mortality, lapses, interest rates, and expense rates. This paper describes briefly a method which could be used to solve this Followed by papers submitted by 2 authors problem in a flexible manner.

Description: This paper deals with the problem of determining the effect on reserves of variations in the assumptions. A general approach to this problem is presented and then used to extend Lidstone's theorem, mainly to cases involving a nonmonotone critical function. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: The subject of this paper is the question: What is the added cost to permit unrestricted election of optional forms of retirement income? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 36 AB.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Group Weekly Indemnity Continuation Table Study by Morton D. Miller. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This paper shows how net costs of virtually all life insurance contracts may be compared, using, for each contract, the ratio of two interest-adjusted cost indexes denoted as Interest Adjusted Cost indexes. The paper includes a discussion of how the relative cost of early termination of the contract may best be shown to the buyer. Followed by discussion papers submitted by various authors

Description: This section presents multiple obituaries for deceased members of the Society of Actuaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: Covers the experience between policy anniversaries in 1973 - 1978 in the first twenty-five policy years after issue i.e., 1949 - 1977. For issues of 1974 and later the classification 'large amount' refers to policies of $100,000 or more prior to 1974 the classification includes policies of $50,000 or more.

Description: In this paper two theorems concerning the optimality of the perfect-fit and perfect-smoothness graduations are proved. Two examples are presented and some difficulties with regard to computational feasibility are reviewed. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.