Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This panel discussed the latest trends in mortality including: 1. The new 1994 Group Annuity Mortality and1994 Uninsured Pension tables. 2. Should future improvements be built into the table? If so, how?

Description: Public DB plans have fatal designs such as basing benefits on a few years of earnings. Redesigning DB to be similar to SS will alleviate solvency challenges.

Description: This paper aims to present a systematic procedure for valuing group self annuitization GSA payouts in the presence of changing mortality. Presented at Managing Retirement Assets Symposium

Description: This paper concentrates on the issue of determining interest rates for pricing the guaranteed purchase rates at time of retirement under a group annuity contract, but the technique developed can also be applied to possible variations from expected mortality. A discussion of this paper is included.

Description: Article Book Review by Ray in The Actuary, January 1979, Volume 13, Number 1

Description: This report presents the most recent report on Group Annuity Mortality. The 1953 experience shows a continuation of the previous trend toward improvement in mortality of retired lives.

Description: This 1960 Report includes only the regular matured life study and is limited to the experience of single life matured annuities under Group Annuity contracts. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1960 Reports.

Description: This article provides an overview and highlights of the recent paper Pension Risk Transfer: Evaluating Impact and Barriers for De-Risking Strategies. The market has evolved dramatically over the past 10 years, and the paper discusses the drivers behind these changes from both the plan sponsor and insurer viewpoints. The research also gathered input from various key stakeholders as to what changes the market could experience in the future.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper examines the trends of mortality improvement in the United States for the consideration of the task force set up in 2010 to review the life tables for Group Annuity and the related assumptions for mortality improvement 'Scale AA', using more recent information from the Social Security Administration life tables and data derived from the Human Mortality Database.

Description: This paper is a practical guide to the terminal funding annuity product. Actuarial considerations, investment strategies, administration, and marketing aspects are discussed.