Description: The panel examined the trend of a large proportion of new and in-force business being ceded by direct-writing companies into the reinsurance marketplace. Questions addressed: 1. Is there a difference of opinion on mortality assumptions between the reinsurer and the direct writer? If so, who's right? 2. If the reinsurer is right, what are the implications to the direct writer? 3. If the direct writer is right, what are the implications to the reinsurer? 4. Are there other driving forces behind the large amounts being ceded?

Description: Presented at May 2005 Spring Meeting. Explores work to study the mortality experience of the older ages, the mortality costs to the insurer if the absolute level and shape of the pricing mortality curve is incorrect and the value of underwriting with regard to select vs. ultimate mortality.

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting reviews the Business Mens Assurance's computerized mortality study on its reinsured business. It also discusses smoker/non-smoker mortality assumptions, surplus relief via traditional coinsurance and mod-co and TEFRA impact on reinsurance. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 9, No. 3

Description: Attendees learn the most important advances in medical science and current research that may lead to additional breakthroughs. Potential effects of those advances on life insurance products and the life insurance industry are explored. Includes a presentation of neural net applications to enhance life-table methodologies. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 1, Session 16.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on the implications of future mortality trends and a follow-up to ideas presented at the Chicago mortality symposium exploring the economic, social, and medical implications of living longer. From Record of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 6, No. 4.

Description: This session 34PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting covers the recent path-breaking research investigates the reasons that females live longer than males in virtually all societies, and even across species. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 34PD.

Description: This report was presented at the October 1982 Society of Actuaries annual Meeting in Washington D.C.. It presented supplementary information on the 1979 Build and Blood Pressure Study. This supplementary study was made to answer a number of specific questions raised by medical directors and actuaries of life insurance companies as well as by some prominent physicians and research scientists.

Description: This presentation from the 1995 SOA New York Meeting covers AIDS, where the disease is now, how the forecasts compare to what has actually happened and the current impact on pricing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.

Description: This 1978 SOA session presented some provisional findings of the new Build and Blood Pressure Study. Some of the findings: 1. The average weights of men in the new study exceed the corresponding weights in the previous 1959 study by 2 to 8 pounds in the thirties, and by up to 5 pounds in the fifties. 2. The mortality ratios of overweight men are not significantly different in the new study from those in the 1959 study. 3. Markedly overweight men experienced lower mortality in the current study than in the 1959 study. 4. Men weighing 20 percent below average recorded 10 to 15 percent higher mortality in the new study than in the 1959 study. 5. Mortality of overweight women is relatively lower than that of overweight men. 6. Mortality of men with elevated systolic and diastolic pressures was appreciably lower than in the 1959 study. 7. Mortality of women with moderately elevated systolic and diastolic pressures was not significantly different from that in the 1959 study. 8. The presence of minor impairments alongside of blood pressures in excess of 150/90 usually produced significant increases in mortality.

Description: Presented at June 1996 Spring Meeting. Panelists present the results of the 1985-89 Intercompany Group Life Study. A comparison of the 1985-89 study with other data is made.