Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.

Description: The Society of Actuaries SoA developed this research project to repeat and expand upon its “Group Medical Insurance Large Claims Database Collection and Analysis” study, which was published as a monograph in August of 1997. The general purpose of these studies is to discover and analyze factors affecting claim incidence rates and the distribution of claim sizes. This is the report for the database. Please see the SOA website experience studies for Group Health for the databases themselves.

Description: This article provides encourages participation in and provides instructions for participation in the 2010 CLICE study. The objective of the 2010 study is to provide useful unit expense benchmark information to actuaries and their managements from which to assess their own unit expense performance, while expanding the level of contributions. In addition, CLICE expects the results to be useful in enhancing the generation of the Generally Recognized Expense Table GRET in the U.S. used by some companies to demonstrate compliance with the NAIC model sales illustration regulation.

Description: Experience-study instructions to contributors. Looks to develop inter-company information about expenses for many types of individual [not group] life and annuity products.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to annuity insurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

Description: This paper demonstrates and quantifies death-rate differences by marital status, explores the reasons why mortality rates for the unmarried exceed those for the married, and encourages actuaries and others to contribute their thoughts on these perplexing matters. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1994, Vol. 46.

Description: 2001 individual life and annuity expense study summary report updated 10-01-03.

Description: This is the tenth experience study conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses on inter-company expenses. Contributions of individual life and annuity expense data were received from 13 US life insurance companies.

Description: This report documents the results of the Committee’s third expense study – the 2003 SOA Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study.