Description: This article describes the mortality tables that the Board of Governors of the Society of Actuaries is recommending to the NAIC as successors to the 1958 CSO Table

Description: a review of a paper by R. H. Daw, F.I.A. entitled “Smallpox and the Double Decrement Table: a piece of actuarial prehistory.”

Description: This is about The Federal Register of October 18, 1982 announcement by the Veterans Administration concerning USGLI premiums. The premiums were based on the American Experience Mortality Table at 3 /2% interest which overestimates mortality and underestimates the interest rate. This article discusses the ramifications of this.

Description: Summary of the Internal Revenue Service study on demographic and financial characteristics of the top wealthholders of the United States and a review of Metropolitan Life's mortality exerience for this group.

Description: This article is an actuarial approach to speed and mortality by analyzing two 30-year old drivers, Quickly, who drives fast, and Legal who drives much safer. Different mortality decreases would result from different combinations of ages and speed reductions.

Description: This article summarizes two special mortality and lapse studies - experience on Term Conversions and Guaranteed Insurability Options between 1961 and 1966 policy anniversaries.

Description: This article presents a summary of the recent smoker/nonsmoker mortality experience. Smoker mortality ratios are generally double the ratios for nonsmokers according to the latest intercompany experience.

Description: This article reviews the various functions and current activities of the The Society's Committee on Mortality under Ordinary Insurances and Annuities and summarizes the latest mortality experience study.

Description: This article contains brief notes on the results from the Canadian mortality experience study for experience between the 1965 and 1966 anniversaries under standard Ordinary insurance issues.

Description: Provides a brief review of World Population: An Analysis of Vital Data by N. Keyfitz and W. Flieger. It presented a collection of life tables and related data covering more than 60 populations over 180 years. This book presents data on mortality from recorded causes of death in 180 populations, with detail provided on age and sex .... This volume should reduce substantially problems of data availability by providing information on mortality experience spanning a period of 103 years, for 48 nations, and encompassing a range of life expectancies from 27 to 77. The data will assist the social scientist in documenting such matters as the sources of the vital revolution, causes of increasing sex mortality differentials, components of age curves of mortality, geographic and temporal variations in mortality structure, and economic and social costs of a disease.