Description: The purpose of this paper is to introduce the use of least squares for estimating parameters of mortality curves and discuss the advantages of this method.

Description: Industry information about some tools and methods used by life insurance companies to mitigate the risk inherent in early duration claims.

Description: This report discusses drivers of U.S. mortality improvement for the short and long term.

Description: The results of the 2016 Group Term Life Experience Study, which includes experience for policies in force anytime during 2010 through 2013.

Description: Report to explain the uses and limitations of the underwriting criteria score calculator

Description: Securitization of mortality risks is an alternative risk management tool that may have some advantages over reinsurance. The purpose of this paper is to study mortality-based securities, such as swaps and mortality bonds, and to price the proposed mortality securities. We focus on group life annuity data, although the techniques could be applied to other lines of annuity or life insurance.

Description: Discussion of the preliminary findings of the Society of Actuaries Ad Hoc Committee on a New Build and Blood Pressure Study

Description: The article talks about how Small Insurance Companies can make significant use out of experience studies, not to just to comply with PBR or other regulatory requirements, but also in managing their business.

Description: Report on differences & similarities in mortality by age group, time, cause of death and region to aid in understanding of future expected mortality rates.

Description: In this paper we shall present our results in terms of the estimation of human mortality rates, but the results carry over to other applications. We shall discuss a Bayesian model that encompasses both graduation [smoothing] and prediction.