Description: The recent release of the RP-2014 Mortality Table and Scale MP-2014 exposure drafts represent the SOA’s first comprehensive reexamination of U.S. pension-related mortality assumptions in over a decade. This paper summarizes the key conclusions reached in those exposure drafts and the estimated financial impact of adopting the new mortality assumptions.

Description: View the Archive Spring 2019: Life Finance and Valuation Exam - U.S.

Description: This document describes an effort to measure the deaths in the US population relative to pre-pandemic expectations. The actual deaths used are as reported by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) and we consider several different methods for setting the expectations, adjusting for the estimated mix by age, sex, and time of the year (seasonality).

Description: Updated metrics for measuring financial stress among multiemployer pension plans in the United States.

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Description: This is an update of a report published originally in June 20211 comparing total U.S. population mortality to baseline expectations by age and sex. The report now includes U.S. population numbers through August 17, 2022, so the years 2020 and 2021 are now mostly complete.

Description: This report presents the formal recommendation for a new mortality basis for individual annuity valuations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This paper covers Group Annuity Mortality experience for the year 1963. The report is limited to a study of the experience of single life matured annuities under Group Annuity contracts. From the Transaction of Society of Actuaries, 1964.

Description: Archive Spring 2016: Life Finance and Valuation Exam - U.S.

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