Description: This annual survey of long-term lapsation prepared by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association examines the experience of ordinary insurance in Canada between 1993 and 1994 policy anniversaries.

Description: This report describes the mortality experience by cause of death from 1983 to 1988 policy anniversaries and includes data from the same companies that contribute to the annual study of Mortality under Standard Ordinary Insurance Issues.

Description: Experience study covering over 80 continuing care retirement communities, CCRCs, in California including 17 life care communities, offering retirees residential living and services of health care and personal care. Life expectancy experience of residents of CCRCs is developed in support of the California statutory reserve requirements for CCRCs.

Description: This is the annual report submitted by the Individual Life Section of the Committee on Expected Experience on the intercompany mortality experience for Canadian standard ordinary life insurance policies between 1990 and 1991 anniversaries.

Description: This report presents results from the study undertaken during 1993 and 1994 by the Direct Response Persistency and Mortality Task Force. Direct response product experience is presented for persistency, and mortality for both underwritten and guaranteed issue products.

Description: The key tasks of credit risk capital project under CROSS II mainly focus onL(1 )Adjustment of measurement framework; (2) Calibration of risk factors, including both credit spread risk and credit default risk;3)Introduction of concentration risk measurement; (4) Higher requirement on look-through rule.

Description: What are the possible future implications to insurance companies of significant improvements in mortality? How can futurism techniques be used in research? The formation of the mortality improvement study group at the Principal Financial Group was the first step toward examining the issue of mortality improvement. In an interactive format, we will present what we learned about mortality and futurism techniques by participating in this group.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to suggest an improved method of future mortality improvement approximation, using the a-1949 Table as the basic table. Comparisons are shown between this method and other methods for annuitants.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

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