Description: This is a panel discussion on the mortality of smokers and nonsmokers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: In this paper the authors discuss the official decennial Unites States Life Tables for 1979-81, presenting age-specific mortality rates and expectations of life. Mortality trends are examined going back to the first decennial tables published at the beginning of the century, and brief comparisons with mortality in other industrialized countries are made. The paper includes written discussion. From the 1985 Transactions Vol. 37.

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper explores the select period and the wealth effect at older ages, and also examines mortality rates for three distinct senior populations: 1. the U.S. population, through an annual sample of the Medicare database of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2. the life settlement population of an independent life settlement underwriter, 21st Services LLC, and 3. the population implied by the Society of Actuaries' 2008 Valuation Basic Tables VBT.

Description: Higlights from the 1977 volume of TSA Reports, including Standard Ordinary mortality ratios, an intercompany study of accidental death benefit experience, and reports from the committees on various lines of insurance.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, On Computing the Probability that Exactly k of n Independent Events will Occur by Robert P. White and T. N. E. Greville. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee has completed their latest report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2004-05. This is the Excel Ultimate data pivot tables that provide more detail for policy years 2004-05. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other realted tables.

Description: This is a excel spreadsheeet showing mortality data from report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2005-07. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that measures the magnitude of the systematic bias, found when using the Lee-Carter model for mortality prediction, using the bootstrap method and also provides suggestions on how to correct the bias.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this report, which presents the 2003 through 2006 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. The committee has also presented the results in pivot table format to allow readers to easily customize their analyses to suit their individual purposes. This is that table which is call 2001-2006 Group Annuity Pivot Table. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: The 1990–95 Basic Select and Ultimate Mortality Tables for Individual Life Insurance are now available. Four tables have been produced age nearest birthday and age last birthday tables for both males and females. The tables have been produced for individual issue ages 0 through 99 on a 25–year select basis and for ultimate attained ages 25 through 110. There is a breakdown by smoking status and by policy size.