Description: This is a table that provides Non-Viet Nam Mortality Experience for Calendar Years 1970 to 1972 combined by branch of service and age. This was supplied by Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance. From The Actuary Vol. 7, No. 10.

Description: The second part of a roundtable discussion on principals-based approach [PBA] and the life insurance industry, in this part discussing mortality experience studies. The first part appeared in the August/September 2008 issue of The Actuary.

Description: Review of a new text on mortality measurement, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Robert W. Batten.

Description: The article highlights the Northampton Table which is the earliest mortality table to be constructed especially for life insurance premiums. It contrasts the life expectancies of the Northampton Table with those of population tables one and two centuries later.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1972 – volume 6 - Issue 10 that is the report by Carl J. Singer, Chief Actuary, Veterans Administration, mortality experience of Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance as being of interest to Companies writing military business.

Description: This article is an introduction to the topic of mortality projections and their impact on social security systems. The article reviews two life expectancy graphs and overall trends in life expectancy by gender at birth and age 65 in the United States, Canada and the UK.

Description: Brief summary of the Canadian Assured Lives Table, 1958-1964.

Description: Article from The Actuary, December 1971 – volume 5 - Issue 10 is a recap of the mortality experience of Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance.

Description: An article from The Actuary that highlights the strategic importance of inter-company mortality studies. Broad-based mortality studies form the backbone of the life actuarial profession. However, few companies have sufficient exposure or deaths to construct their own mortality table. Even is some large companies have enough data, there is still a vast majority of companies that do not. Historically, the void has been filled by means of inter-company studies.

Description: The author discusses the first life table, or life table model, which was produced in 1662 by John Graunt in his Natural and Political Observations. He notes that the brief, crude table was both inaccurate and unrealistic, but nonetheless, proved to be the source of one of the most powerful concepts and valuable tools in demography and actuarial science.