Description: The abstract for the paper Makeham-Type Mortality Models.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that investigates important drivers of retirement age mortality using the U.S. health and retirement study.

Description: The abstract for the paper Living to 100 and Beyond: An Extreme Value Study

Description: This paper presents recent trends in obesity prevalence in significant population segments, including overall effects by age, gender and certain racial and ethnic groups, and discusses the ways in which obesity can influence mortality in each of these segments. It provides a synthesis of reported mortality experience relating to these behaviors by risk factors and diseases that will affect any mortality projection.

Description: A recent study sheds light on the measurement and implications of the relationship between increased morbidity and declining disability. The results were not consistent across all populations. This study of the compression of morbidity is part of a wider project called the M-project, led by the four authors, which aims to explore the demographic factors leading to an increase in the adult longevity, investigate the phenomenon called the compression of mortality and develop a new methodological approach to longevity analysis with focus on the modal age at death M.

Description: This abstract describes a study that sets up an experience rating system to determine next year’s premium.