Description: This panel discussion recorded in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB addressed smaller company considerations with respect to Guaranteed Insurability, Family Policy problems, and actuarial research.

Description: This discussion looks at general topics associated with electronics such as storage methods. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: Table of Contents for 1995-96 Reports of Mortality, Morbidity and Other Experience

Description: This is the final version of the 1989 report on the annual Canadian Institute of Actuaries study of group life mortality experience in Canada.

Description: This mortality study is based on results of calendar year 1994 from 17 companies. Experience for amount of $1 million are more is reported with differentiation by sex, issue age, policy year, amount, smoking status, underwriting status, reinsurance status, plan of insurance, and level of retention.

Description: This paper by the SOA Committee on HIV research builds on past work to show three projections of the future of the AIDS epidemic. These scenarios can provide information to actuaries in considering the financial impact of AIDS for life and health insurance. The paper develops general population AIDS mortality rates related to the three scenarios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: In this paper two theorems concerning the optimality of the perfect-fit and perfect-smoothness graduations are proved. Two examples are presented and some difficulties with regard to computational feasibility are reviewed. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1978, Vol. 30.

Description: The objectives of this paper are: 1. To show why scientific laws of mortality are preferable to the continued use of graduation techniques on mortality tables. 2. To develop a new theory leading to a new mathematical law of mortality that reduces to Gompertz's law as a first approximation. 3. To demonstrate an understanding of select mortality and produce a simple formula that is reasonably consistent with it. 4. To develop methods to test this and other similar formulas on various bodies of data to establish their validity and usefulness. 5. To discuss the meaning of the results and provide some examples of the use of the formula for purposes other than graduation. 6. To discuss extensions of the models. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: The Standard Nonforfeiture Law requires that the mortality table and interest rate provided in the policy for the calculation of cash surrender values and of nonforfeiture paid-up insurance be the same, say Basis A. It also contemplates that, if desired, a more stringent Basis B may be provided for calculating the present value of extended term insurance, using mortality rates up to 130% those of Basis A. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: This paper is presented as a means of explaining, in greater detail than was appropriate in its formal report, the methods used in the construction of the new standard ordinary mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X, and the corresponding experience mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X.