Description: Discussant comments for the 2009 Housing Wealth monograph paper, “History of Mortgage Finance With an Emphasis on Mortgage Insurance.” The paper presents the history of mortgage guarantee insurance in the US beginning briefly with the history of banks and banking regulation and ending with implications for the future. The discussant finds the paper clearly written and that it would make a useful reference based on a reading of a preliminary draft.

Description: This paper attempts to synthesize the evidence supporting and refuting the hypotheses for the sex mortality differential. From Why Men Die Younger: Causes of Mortality Differences by Sex: Abstract, M-LI01-1.

Description: A new approach to retirement is needed which allows a transition period from full work to full retirement, allowing people to continue working well past the traditional retirement age. This article discusses the possibility that employees will survive beyond their retirement funds and proposes a new retirement perspective that retirement progams should treat longevity as an insurable event and different strategies for this longevity risk.

Description: This paper outlines findings from judgement and decision making and behavioral economics literature that focus on elements of the retirement savings decision. From the 2011 Enterprise Risk Management Symposium, March 2011.

Description: This is the Discussion Summary by Erwin J. Tan for the Mortality Patterns Session 4A of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: This is the Fully Funded Pensions for Centenarians abstract authored by Jonathan Barry Forman for Session 5B of the January 13-15, 2020 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando, Florida.

Description: The paper gives an overview of the data that are available and discusses the problems encountered in estimating mortality rates at old ages in the UK. It describes some of the methodologies used to construct mortality rates at advanced ages for official life tables and recent work undertaken by the UK Government Actuary’s Department to construct a database of historical mortality rates for the United Kingdom going back to 1961. Mortality tables for ages 85 and above are provided for years 1961 - 2000 by gender. Finally, possible methods for projecting mortality at advanced ages are discussed.

Description: Discussion of three papers presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium. Papers discussed: 'Morality at Advanced Ages' by Virga, 'Factors Affecting Mortality in a Small Sample of Older Adults' by Jones, Kwon, Paterson, Cunningham, and Kovai, and 'Detection and Significance of Frailty in Elderly Insurance Applicants' by Pokorski. The first paper develops mortality tables from retired federal employee data.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium in January 2002. Discusses the impact of longer life spans on families, business, society, and programs to help support the elderly.

Description: Paper presented at Living to 100 symposium January 2002. Study describes the increase in life expectancy at birth in Japan, the emergence of centenarians, the trends in the number of deaths of centenarians, and the increase in maximum reported age at death. Death rates above the age of 100 in Japan since 1963 are computed and analyzed. This study completes and updates results presented in a previous study Robine and Saito, 200X.