Description: This is an excel spreadsheet showing Appendix F, Relative Risk, of the 2008 Valuation Basic Table Report and Tables. The full report describes the development of the 2008 Valuation Basic Tables. It incorporates the Primary Tables, the Relative Risk Tables, and the Limited Underwriting tables. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and all other related tables.

Description: Full version of Product Matters, January 2002, Issue No. 52.

Description: Panelists discuss recent trends in individual life mortality experience, especially for preferred risks, and the impact of agent selection and underwriting exceptions on a company's mortality results. From the 1997 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue No. 50, September 2002.

Description: Full version of Product Development News, August 2002, Issue No. 53.

Description: From a session at the Spring regional meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in Atlanta, Georgia, May 24-25, 1999. Panelists with differing perspectives within the term insurance industry examine a range of topics that are crucial for successful product development. Impact of XXX is also covered.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, San Francisco. This session was about issues relating to term insurance including product design, pricing, compensation, and reserving issues.

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of the survey on Life Settlements, prepared by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys Life Settlements Survey Subcommittee. The responses from two separate surveys, one to direct writers and the other to reinsurers, have been combined into this single report. Survey question topics include company characteristics, market participation, market management, and consequences to the Industry.

Description: This survey report from the Business Decisions [Reinsurance] Survey Subcommittee of the Society of Actuaries Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting, was intended to gather information on reinsurers’ views and practices with respect to ceding companies making ‘Business Decisions,’ defined as decisions ‘beyond the rules’ or ‘outside the underwriter’s intelligent judgment.’

Description: This session 103PD of the Toronto Spring Meeting presents the results of three surveys recently completed by members of the Society of Actuaries Mortality and Underwriting Survey Committee. The surveys explore mortality improvement, older age underwriting techniques and how decisions on lab testing are made. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 2, Session 103PD