Description: The Group Life Insurance Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed the 2005 Group Term Life Waiver Reserve Table Report. There were several compelling reasons to develop a new experience study and table, not the least of which was that 35 years is a long interval for any study.

Description: The Experience Study Rate Errors paper discusses, in depth, the errors that arise from the use of two partial rate years, such as policy years or years of age, to cover one calendar year.

Description: This is an excel spreadsheet showing mortality data from all companies ILEC 2005–07 supporting files and additional information by age band. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.

Description: Recently, joint teams of SOA and American Academy of Actuaries (AAA) volunteers have been busy on several such projects, including individual annuity mortality basic, individual annuity reserve, valuation basic table, preneed insurance, and more. This article provides a summary of their work.

Description: The article talks about how Small Insurance Companies can make significant use out of experience studies, not to just to comply with PBR or other regulatory requirements, but also in managing their business.

Description: Feature article discussing the development and use of stochastically generated mortality scenarios in VM-20.

Description: Adjusting the 1985 NAIC Cancer Claim Cost Tables, a collection of morbidity tables, for Inflation and benefit changes Issue No. 34.

Description: Summary of SOA initiative on preparing and positioning actuaries to move into new roles which are becoming available as the health care industry changes.

Description: Summary of the ReFocus 2018 Conference, jointly sponsored by the American Council of Life Insurers and the SOA.

Description: Write-up of 2018 Actuarial Research Conference from an international perspective.