Description: This paper considers policies with annual premiums and discusses four types of life insurance reserves calculations: curtate, fully continuous, discounted continuous, and semicontinuous. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present a method for calculating dividends for group life insurance policies issued on the one-year renewable term basis and deemed large enough to qualify for experience rating.

Description: This actuarial note provides a discussion of modified reserves and minimum cash values when continuous functions are used. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: This is a discussion on the title paper by Robert E. Larson. Included are discussions of how Larson's methods would work if applied in their companies.

Description: This paper discusses the mortality of railroad annuitants between the 1946 and 1949 anniversaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This paper is presented for the purpose of updating major medical tables published originally in 1961 TSA, XIII, 497. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1969, Vol. 21, Pt. 1, No. 59 AB.

Description: This paper describes how Markov chain Monte Carlo and related methods recently presented in the statistical literature can be used to quickly and efficiently simulate random draws from distributions with log-concave or nearly log-concave densities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This paper discusses the administration and valuation of ill-health terminations under group annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This is a report on a special study of Major Medical Expense insurance by the Group Morbidity Committee. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 37.

Description: The main focus of this report is the presentation of information and methodologies to support the analysis of the financial impact of AIDS on individual companies writing life insurance in the U.S. Topics include reserving and development of valuation tables used for both statutory and GAAP accounting. This report should be viewed as a supplement to the Individual Life Report. Many of the issues and conclusions in the Individual Life Report are equally applicable to individual disability insurance and are therefore not discussed herein. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.