Description: This article presents a summary of the recent smoker/nonsmoker mortality experience. Smoker mortality ratios are generally double the ratios for nonsmokers according to the latest intercompany experience.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Long Term Care experience database is mined for evidence of improvement in insured population incidence rates.

Description: Overview on current trends in medical practice impacting the LTC insurance business with a focus on dementia, risk stratification, and predictive modeling.

Description: This article announces the publication of Phase II of Factors Affecting Retirement Mortality FARM by Victor Modugno. This article also provides a brief summary of the publication and its availability. From Pension Section News, March 2004, Issue No. 54.

Description: Column highlighting the upcoming release for RP2014/MP-2014, rationale for new scales including two-dimensional mortality projection techniques and upcoming SOA educational opportunities on these topics.

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: This paper updates the predecessor 1971 Disability Table, takes into account major changes in the reported experience of the past decade, and corrects defects in the previous table's calculation of termination rates. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This paper describes the analysis made of the 1971 Group Annuity Mortality Table and introduces the 1983 Group Annuity Mortality Table along with revised mortality rate projection scales. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1983, Vol. 35.

Description: This paper develops and presents a complete set of select mortality rates, for all issue ages, derived from the rates generally for five-year issue age groupings presented in the 1982 Reports for the 1975-80 Basic Tables. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1986, Vol. 38.