Description: The SOA Pension Section Council has sponsored the creation of the following slide presentation for use by pension actuaries. This deck of slides is intended to be used as a starting point for an educational presentation that you may want to use for your clients and/or your actuarial staff. Given your audience and your time constraints, you will most likely want to pick and choose the specific slides (or even the specific data series on a graph) that you want to include. More suggestions on how to use the deck are included on slide 2 of the presentation.

Description: The author discusses the various components that may have an effect on the future of mortality such as the extinction of numerous species of flora and fauna the growth of agribusiness genetically modified foods, better public health institutions and programs, etc.

Description: GAR-94: Tracking The 50 States by Zenaida Samaniego from Pension Section News, October 1999, Issue No. 41.

Description: In this project the researchers explored the new opportunities provided by the ongoing revolution in information technology for studies of exceptional human longevity. Methodologies and interpretation of the results were presented.

Description: Results of a Survey of JRMS members re claims changes due to COVID

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: The Society of Actuaries’ Pension Section has completed a research effort exploring the value of longevity pooling and its implications.

Description: This paper outlines a statistical modeling framework for fitting mortality laws to mortality experience data. The process can be used as an alternative to traditional graduation techniques used in mortality table development.

Description: This is a panel discussion on the mortality of smokers and nonsmokers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: In this paper the authors discuss the official decennial Unites States Life Tables for 1979-81, presenting age-specific mortality rates and expectations of life. Mortality trends are examined going back to the first decennial tables published at the beginning of the century, and brief comparisons with mortality in other industrialized countries are made. The paper includes written discussion. From the 1985 Transactions Vol. 37.