Description: This report covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1976 and 1977 policy anniversaries, and also for the period between 1972 and 1977 policy anniversaries where one year's exposure generally provided an insufficient volume of data.

Description: Covers individual life mortality experience for the 1981 - 1982 anniversary period and for the 1977 - 1982 anniversary period.

Description: Table of Contents.

Description: Lists the experience studies on mortality, morbidity and lapses that are included in this publication plus a few research reports.

Description: This paper is from Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17. The authors note that ‘mortality experiences of large closed groups carried through until the termination of all the lives are not often available,’ but that they provide ‘relatively reliable mortality experience at the very advanced ages.’ This paper presents the results of the mortality study of probably the only such closed group to date in the United States, the pension roll of Union Civil War veterans.

Description: This paper presents an analysis of the mortality experience recorded in the 16 official complete life tables that have been published by the Japanese government, covering about a century. In addition to progress in industrial production, Japan has made remarkable progress in the demographic area, especially decreasing mortality rates of its people.

Description: A recommendation for a set of improvement factors that vary by gender and attained age to be used in conjunction with the 2008 Valuation Basic table or the 2015 Valuation Basic table for AG-38 purposes.

Description: The Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA) and Society of Actuaries (SOA) engaged RGA Reinsurance Company (RGA) to undertake a research project on level premium term life insurance products with a particular focus on the magnitude and impact of the “shock lapse” at the end of the level premium period. This project is similar to the SOA-sponsored research completed by RGA in 2014 for USA business.

Description: Based on work performed by Bob Howard, a former member of RPEC, the SOA developed a spreadsheet-based program that allows users to create a customized mortality improvement scale using the RPEC_2014 model. The RPEC_O2_v2018 model found here utilizes the same projection methodology underpinning the RPEC_2014 model except that the historical rates have been developed using “order-2” Whittaker-Henderson graduation rather than “order-3”.

Description: The primary focus of this study was a comprehensive review of recent mortality experience of public retirement plans in the United States.