Description: Recommendation for a set of improvement factors to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table

Description: This report describes two methods, an observation-based analysis and an actual to model analysis, to analyze long-term care insurance experience to determine if calendar year trends exist.

Description: Report on results of survey designed to get feedback on some hot topics in industry - namely predictive analytics and accelerated & enhanced underwriting.

Description: This report, part of the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Business Practice Surveys,’ presents the results of the survey on laboratory testing issues, prepared by the SOA Committee on Life Insurance Mortality and Underwriting Surveys Laboratory Tests Survey Subcommittee. The survey asks questions about companies’ internal practices in regards to how laboratory tests become part of the underwriting paradigm, in particular, how changes are made, who the decision-makers are, and what support is necessary to add a test.

Description: This session covers the differences between quantitative models and traditional techniques for measuring credit exposure pricing models versus portfolio risk management models and an introduction to some commercially available models, such as J. P. Morgan’s Credit Metrics and Moody’s/KMV Portfolio Manager. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 29, No. 1, Washington, D.C. Spring Meeting, May 29–30, 2003, Session 19PD.

Description: Introductory report discussing factors influencing the actual to tabular ratios for health insurance.

Description: This study provides 1970-1971 experience under loss-of-time policies.

Description: This report provided mortality data on Accidental Death Benefit provisions in Ordinary Insurance Policies between 1970 and 1975 anniversaries.

Description: This 1979 report, prepared by the Society of Actuaries Committee on Self-Administered Retirement Plans, provides mortality experience among pensioners and some nonretired participants under certain large self-administered plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1979 Reports.

Description: This is a study on the death rates for the leading causes of death in the United States from 1968-1977.