Description: This paper is intended to acquaint actuaries with a simple and practical application of the ruin function technique in the determination of the C-2 mortality risk reserve needed for individual life insurance business. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

Description: This discussion looks at considerations involved in determining interest rates and when deciding upon a reserve interest rate, the factors which warrant consideration. The panel also explores changes deemed appropriate with the new federal income tax law. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This paper explores the flexibility of kernel estimation as a means of nonparametric graduation and relates it to moving-weighted-average graduation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This discussion looks at rising interest rates since the use of the 1941 CSO Table and the considerations in determining interest rates for premiums and reserves under the 1958 CSO, and changes in the handling of taxes due to the new federal income tax laws in life and pension plans.

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: This paper presents an analysis of the basic actuarial theory for life insurance policies which have fixed premiums, the entire reserve held in a separate account, the assets of which would be invested primarily in common stocks, etc. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21 Pt. 1, No. 61

Description: This report summarizes the results of a company survey of select period mortality assumptions. This project was sponsored by the SOA’s Product Development Section and the Committee on Life Insurance Research.

Description: The purpose of this endeavor was to undertake a research project on term conversion experience with a particular focus on conversion rates and mortality experience of term to permanent converted policies.

Description: The VBT Analysis Subgroup (“Subgroup”) of the Joint Academy Life Experience Committee and SOA Preferred Mortality Oversight Group (“Joint Committee”) recommends the approach documented in this report for determining when there is sufficient change in the emerging actual mortality experience relative to the current VBT to warrant changes to the table.

Description: Term Life insurance is a popular product in the U.S. As a growing number of policyholders have been reaching the end of the level term period, the SOA has been committed to studying policyholder behavior in the post-level term (PLT). Shock lapse, post-level term lapse and mortality have previously been analyzed in SOA PLT studies conducted in 2010 and 2014. This study provides an update of experience and some valuable new insights.