Description: This paper was presented at the 1957 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 21-22 in New York. The authors present the results of the fourth in a series of mortality studies of the experience of industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for successive periods since 1911. This report extends the series to 1955, with emphasis on mortality trends during the post war decade. Like the earlier reports covering the four decades ending with 1950, mortality trends among these insured lives for the more important causes of death according to age, sex, and race are presented. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1957 Volume 9, Number 24.

Description: These are submitted discussion papers on the paper, 'Annuity Mortality' by Walter G. Bowerman.

Description: This report was presented at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries annual Meeting in Washington D.C.. It presented supplementary information on the 1979 Build and Blood Pressure Study. This supplementary study was made to answer a number of specific questions raised by medical directors and actuaries of life insurance companies as well as by some prominent physicians and research scientists.

Description: This paper gives a brief description of the New Mortality Basis for Annuities, shows statistics on recent decreases in mortality rates and supplies projection scales and factors for future mortality decreases. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: This is the digest from the informal discussion reviewing the 1951 Impairment study. It is the latest in a series of studies covering mortality of impaired risks. It covers the experience under Ordinary insurance issued from 1935 to 1949 traced to the anniversaries in 1950. Standard and substandard policies were studied separately.

Description: This discussion at the SOA 1967 Annual Meeting covers mortality issues including trends in longevity, factors affecting future mortality rates, and projection methods.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, The Mortality of Industrial Policyholders 1950 to 1955 by Edward A. Lew and Mortimer Spiegelman. From Transactions of Society of Actauries 1957, Vol. 9, No. 24.

Description: This paper examines the effects of selection procedures used in epidemiologic studies and suggests that similar procedures could be employed to select standard ordinary insurance risks at the older ages. The experience in this paper was developed from a prospective epidemiologic investigation launched by the American Cancer Society in the fall of 1959 to learn how personal characteristics, living styles, and environmental conditions influence health and longevity.

Description: This discussion reviews recent developments in connection with the 1958 CSO Table and looks at the latest developments with respect to high cash value minimum deposit plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This study develops mortality ratios, using contemporary population tables as the base, for the 897 Fellows of the two predecessor bodies to the present Society observed to anniversaries in 1985. A discussion of the paper follows. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.