Description: Report on the Lapse and Mortality Experience of Post-Level Premium Period Term Plans

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2018 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2013 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey.

Description: This paper presents a large number of studies made by The Mutual Life of New York determining the effect on the lapse rates of the various characteristics of the insured, the policy, the agent, and certain economic factors. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This report presents the results of individual life insurance lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2009 and 2013. Lapse experience is analyzed for whole life, term life, universal life, and variable universal life plans issued between 1918 and 2012. Results for most key policy and product factors are examined.

Description: This report presents the results of a joint study conducted by the Society of Actuaries and LIMRA examining both premium persistency and surrender/lapse experience for flexible premium fixed universal life (“UL”), indexed universal life (“IUL”) and variable universal life (“VUL”) products. This work represents the first industry study of flexible premium life insurance premium persistency experience, a key risk impacting the profitability of both secondary guarantee products as well as products that are marketed and sold for traditional protection and savings accumulation purposes.

Description: Report summarizing the results of the 2019 PBITT UL with Secondary Guarantees Survey.