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: 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: This paper is presented as a means of explaining, in greater detail than was appropriate in its formal report, the methods used in the construction of the new standard ordinary mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X, and the corresponding experience mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X.

Description: This report presents the 1991 and 1992 calendar-year experience of retired individuals in the United States, who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada. Data for calendar-years 1987 through 1990 are also included to provide a comparison with 1991 and 1992 experience and to provide information on mortality trends over time.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the effects of projected mortality on the pricing and valuation of individual immediate annuities. Also discusses considerations in underwriting substandard annuities. Finally, a discussion of this paper is included.

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: Covers the 1981 - 1982 calendar year mortality experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the United States and Canada.

Description: Disabled lives reserves for waiver of premium claims represent significant liabilities for group life insurers who, for the past 35 years, have relied on the 1970 Intercompany Group Life Disability Experience Table. The 2005 Group Term Life Waiver Reserve Table is the replacement. This paper includes an overview of the process and the related findings from this work.

Description: Presents the 1985 and 1986 calendar year mortality experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.

Description: This report presents the 1999 and 2000 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada.