Description: The observations and methodologies demonstrated in this article can help actuaries further analyze population mortality trends by causes of death and by socioeconomic status.

Description: This paper proposes a new mortality table as a minimum reserve standard for individual annuities - the 1971 Individual Annuity Mortality Table, '1971 IAM Table,' which is given herein. The construction of the new table is described and it is compared with current valuation standards.

Description: This report discusses drivers of U.S. mortality improvement for the short and long term.

Description: A comparison of recently used mortality assumptions among state-based and large-city public pension plans to the Pub-2010 Mortality Tables.

Description: This paper presents a new group annuity mortality table which is being proposed as a new Statutory valuation table.

Description: The proposed new table, recommended as suitable for a new Group Annuity Reserve Valuation Standard, if accepted and adopted by regulators, would incorporate the use of generational mortality into statutory reserving requirements for group annuities for the first time. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This paper by the SOA Committee on HIV research builds on past work to show three projections of the future of the AIDS epidemic. These scenarios can provide information to actuaries in considering the financial impact of AIDS for life and health insurance. The paper develops general population AIDS mortality rates related to the three scenarios. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1990, Vol. 42.

Description: This article is a response to the article Current U.S. Ordinary Life Mortality by Doug Doll and Mike Jones. The author offers his interpretation of the mortality improvements observed between 1980-85 and 1983-88.

Description: The most recently released US population mortality experience from 2016 is analyzed along with prior available mortality data going back to 1999.