Description: Presents the 1985 and 1986 calendar year mortality experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the U.S. and Canada.

Description: This session is about the measurement and management of the risk of transfers by plan participants to and from alternative investment options within GICs sold to 401 k plans. Includes a discussion of the various types of GICs marketed.

Description: This report presents the 1999 and 2000 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States and Canada who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada.

Description: Discusses product experience and practices with regards to long term disability, the extent group underwriting practices are followed with groups of 5 to 25 lives, changes made in the provisions of group annuity and other insured pension plans to coordinate or otherwise recognize the newly legislated monthly disability benefits under the OASI program, and practices and experience with regards to high face amount life insurance.

Description: This actuarial note presents a comparison of mortality rates and The Prudential 1950 Group Annuity Valuation Table. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this experience update, which presents the 2015 through 2016 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. This update compares these most recent two years of available experience to the 2011-14 period and analyzes how the recent data affects aggregate annual mortality improvement in the group annuity experience data since 2007.

Description: This is a discussion of the title paper by Raymond F. Houseman, which provides some practical aspects of various funding methods. The paper is critiqued, and some alternative methods are discussed.

Description: This is the 1975 report of mortality on group annuity lives broken down by time of retirement as measured against the normal retirement date.

Description: This paper discusses the administration and valuation of ill-health terminations under group annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: A review of the last 50 years, concluding that the insurance industry in Canada has been slow to react to consumers' shift in focus from long-term security to rate of return.