Description: This is a discussion of the title paper by Robert M. Duncan which outlines the use of a contributory money purchase plan with death benefits, and investments in equities, to fund pensions. The approach is critiqued.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to describe the studies made leading to the construction of the new valuation table and the 1961 minimum gross premium rates for group term life insurance.

Description: This study examines individual universal life persistency. This report shows annualized results based on data from calendar years 1988, 1990, and 1992. The purpose of this study is to examine universal life lapsation and persistency by selected policy, agent, insured, and product characteristics.

Description: This paper is presented as a means of explaining, in greater detail than was appropriate in its formal report, the methods used in the construction of the new standard ordinary mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X, and the corresponding experience mortality table, temporarily designated as Mortality Table X.

Description: It is the objective of this paper to highlight and analyze the difference in funding level per participant in the context of a specific situation when determined on an aggregate basis versus an individual basis. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1986, Vol. 38.

Description: Report presenting the 1987 and 1988 experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the United States and Canada. Data from years 1983 - 1986 are also included to provide a comparison with 1987 and 1988 experience.

Description: This paper is written as a sequel to that on Derivation of Premium Rates for Renewable Term Insurance. It is the purpose of this paper to present a method for deriving gross premiums for renewable term insurance of contemporary design, which are virtually independent of the rates of renewal. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 34.

Description: This report presents the 1991 and 1992 calendar-year experience of retired individuals in the United States, who are covered under group pension contracts issued in the United States and Canada. Data for calendar-years 1987 through 1990 are also included to provide a comparison with 1991 and 1992 experience and to provide information on mortality trends over time.

Description: Individual life mortality experience from 1978 - 1983 anniversaries on policies for large amounts: at least $100,000 face for 1974 onward and $50,000 for issue years prior.

Description: This paper presents discrete interpolation formulas, specifically a new method of deriving some existing formulas. The paper uses graduation theory in the interpolation method. Also include is a discussion of the paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.