Description: This is the session transcript from Session 6A: Mortality Improvement Approaches from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: We describe our process of hand-curation of centenarian pedigrees and software that we developed for the automated construction of pedigrees.

Description: These are the discussant comments for the concurrent Session 2B: Older-Age Mortality Trends from the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: A description of the 2014 Living to 100 Triennial Symposium including a summary of some of the papers presented, a description of the international aspects, and links to the Living to 100 website.

Description: With improved global mortality confirmed, the question becomes: What adjustments do actuaries need to make? This article answers that and other questions related to mortality improvements.

Description: Article from The Actuary, January 1986 – Volume No. 20, Issue No. 1 which the author writes was suggested by Solomon Goldfinger’s study of A Stationary Population Problem in the Bible.

Description: Hear from the chairperson on themes in the September 2016 issue of Pension Section News published by the The Pension Section.

Description: Analysis of the impact of disease progression and treatment on life expectancy provides perspective on the long term costs to the health care system of chronic medical conditions.

Description: This article discusses whether or not life expectancy will continue to increase.

Description: This article delves into a new line of statistical thinking of the author, that may be useful for product development actuaries. The key concept is how product design can produce products that diversify quickly, meaning that the company can be confident of a profitable product line, based on fewer sales than might be true for other designs.