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: This workbook has been developed by the SOA's Group Life Experience Study Committee to assist companies wishing to perform their own analysis of the data in the 2013 study.

Description: Because mortality tables are generally tabulated at yearly intervals actuaries frequently must make assumptions about intermediate values in developing formulas for insurance and annuity functions. This paper examines the effect on insurance and annuity formulas of assuming Mx+t to be linear within each interval.

Description: This article talks about longevity risk and reinsurance and its global challenges.

Description: Summary of the non-routine business transacted at meetings of the Executive Committee of the Society of Actuaries on Dec. 13, 1979 and the Board of Governors on Jan. 24, 1980

Description: This workbook has been developed by the SOA's Group Life Experience Study Committee to assist companies wishing to perform their own analysis of the data in the 2013 study.

Description: A recent Society of Actuaries study calculates safety and stability for current Long Term Care Insurance premiums.

Description: Demography is a very exciting subject. With a simple mathematical model, students can project a country's population forward 25, 59, 75 even 100 years. This paper will focus on six ideas from demography. They all can be useful to an actuary, yet none of them would be considered at any length if the actuary didn’t study demography.

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

Description: A Discussion of why female mortality is higher than male mortality at higher ages.