Description: This paper presents basic data with regard to the decennial United States life tables for 1969-71, analyzes the data in comparison to previous U.S. life tables and compares mortality between the U.S. and Canada, England, and Sweden. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1976, Vol 28.

Description: This paper presents an analysis of the mortality experience recorded in the 16 official complete life tables that have been published by the Japanese government, covering about a century. In addition to progress in industrial production, Japan has made remarkable progress in the demographic area, especially decreasing mortality rates of its people.

Description: This paper briefly outlines the methodology involved in the preparation of the national life tables for 1959-61. Then an analysis is made of past mortality trends and current mortality differentials by age, sex, and race.

Description: The author proposes an adjustment to the automatic benefit increase formula to reflect discrepancies between the CPI and wage inflation.

Description: This is an article about retirement age and life expectancy. The article compares the normal retirement age and life expectancy in Germany and the United States.

Description: These are comments made by a past president of the SOA in regards to an article written by Jean Sasseville reviewing the World Bank Policy Research Report.

Description: This article presents a satire about a research organization that produces studies of simple and irrelevant questions.

Description: In this article, the author demonstrates how to compute interest on a short term credit transaction.

Description: By definition, actuaries are preeminent in making actuarial analyses. Nevertheless, in some areas, such analyses can be adequately performed by persons from other professions, such as economists and statisticians. This article describes the misuse of life expectancy data by the Heritage Foundation when they 'calculated' that low-income, single African-American males born after 1959 face a negative rate of return from Social Security. Unfortunately, this misinformation was widely disseminated through the news media and Web sites.