Description: In this Pension Section News article from May 2010, Wendy Weiss reflects on her own clients’ retirement savings practices against the backdrop of major industry surveys and studies.

Description: This article provides an analysis of the AIDS case data collected and made available by the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC data base is at the individual level and includes age at diagnosis, date of diagnosis, sex, sexual preference, locale, type of infection transmission, etc.

Description: Discussion among experts. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: Paper discusses the possible effect of outliers on the mortality index from the Lee-Carter Model. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: This paper discusses the key forces likely to influence U.K. mortality in the 21st century, and describes the methodology and assumptions used in the latest projections of U.K. mortality. The paper also describes recent tables of mortality rates published by the Continuous Mortality Investigation, based on the experience of people taking out insurance contracts and the approaches taken to projecting these.

Description: Discussion on Living to 100 General Session 3.

Description: There are strong interactions between the population of Mexico and the Mexican-origin population in the United States MOP. The main purpose of this paper is the identification of relationships from the demographic and social security perspectives.

Description: We employ a framework for the classification of mortality evolution patterns to HMD data. We find both supra-regional patterns and outliers from global trends.

Description: This session discussion is about the financial implications on social insurance, pensions and post-retirement health care. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 14, No. 4B.

Description: This paper discusses teaching demography at the college level, some associated problems, and it provides an extensive syllabus for demography. From ACTUARIAL RESEARCH CLEARING HOUSE, 1980 VOL. 2.