Description: Covers the experience between policy anniversaries in 1973 - 1978 in the first twenty-five policy years after issue i.e., 1949 - 1977. For issues of 1974 and later the classification 'large amount' refers to policies of $100,000 or more prior to 1974 the classification includes policies of $50,000 or more.

Description: Covers the experience between 1971 - 1978 policy anniversaries and provides benefit election rates, and lapse and mortality rates after election.

Description: Covers the 1981 - 1982 calendar year mortality experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the United States and Canada.

Description: Presents improvements in annuitant mortality within Canada from 1921 - 1986, with trend factors.

Description: Discussion report for the 1978 - 1983 individual life insurance large amounts study. Analyzes the results and presents the data in some different ways from the original report.

Description: Provides the details of the construction of a new select and ultimate mortality table based on experience over the period 1982 to 1988, and the results.

Description: Discusses valuation standards for payout annuities, and results of the a-1949 Mortality Table.

Description: These are discussion papers on the paper, 'The ELAS Life Income Mortality Table' by Harry Walker. That paper describes the derivation of the ELAS Life Income Mortality Table, which has been adopted by the Equitable Life Assurance Society as the mortality basis for the life income option of the modes of settlement in its current series of policy forms and for the calculation of premiums under currently issued individual deferred annuity contracts.

Description: Discussion of the following underwriting topics: A. In view of the low rates of mortality currently experienced on standard lives, is the standard classification too narrow? B. Do substandard extra premiums at the lower ratings make fair provision for the additional expenses incurred on substandard policies? C. What problems are encountered in issuing life insurance on persons residing outside the continental United States and Canada? D. What changes have been made recently in non-medical selection and why? E. How could greater use be made of mortality or morbidity studies conducted by hospitals, clinics, government agencies, universities and others outside of the life insurance business?

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The author notes that recent advances in calculating equipment make possible producing graduations much more elaborate than any done previously. The paper confines itself to the problem of graduating a single column of rates, such as an ultimate column, using a Whittaker-Henderson B graduation of the fourth order. The author provides a detailed description of the process with significant mathematical theory.