Description: This report is the credit life actual-to-expected mortality study based on experience for calendar year 1992. The study reviewed single premium credit life insurance only.

Description: This annual survey of long-term lapsation prepared by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association examines the experience of ordinary insurance in Canada between 1987 and 1988 policy anniversaries.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee has completed their latest report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2004-05. This is the Excel Aggregate data pivot tables that provide more detail for policy years 2004-05. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.

Description: The Mortality Studies Working Group MSWG of the Society of Actuaries was created to review the issue of the frequency of the standard ordinary individual life insurance mortality experience studies and the published reports of those studies. This report discusses these issues and makes recommendations.

Description: This is the 2004 credit disability study report compiled by the Credit Insurance Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries in July, 2005. The study was undertaken to update the basis for unearned premium reserves for single premium credit disability insurance.

Description: This article gives a brief summary of an experience study on the frequency of simultaneous death claims among joint insureds.

Description: London's book supersedes the graduation monograph of Morton D. Miller and T.N.E. Greville’s Study Note on the Society of Actuaries’ syllabus. Although London's book covers much the same methods as did the predecessors, he adds emphasis to the Bayes Theorem and also emphasizes techniques making good use of personal computers.

Description: The Retirement Plans Experience Committee RPEC of the Society of Actuaries SOA is a standing committee that monitors pension plan mortality experience. Most recently, the committee developed the RP-2000 mortality table. This table was the first published North American mortality table based solely upon private sector pension plan mortality experience. Previous tables developed by the RPEC such as GAR-94 and UP-94 were based primarily on a combination of group annuity, and U.S. federal employees and retirees mortality experience. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: There are many investigations probing the relationship between health outcomes [such as mortality rate, fertility rate] and economic variables [such as rise in income] and other variables [such as level of education, availability of clean water]. Usually, these results are demonstrated using data from countries where economic conditions are improving over time along with health outcomes. This paper studies the links between health risks and the current economic conditions in Mexico where general mortality conditions improved during the period 1980-2000 but income fell.

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.