Description: Spring 2022 Group and Health—Finance and Valuation– U.S.

Description: This is the spreadsheet with detail data for this report presents the results of the most recent study of individual life insurance lapse experience in the United States conducted jointly by LIMRA International and the Society of Actuaries SOA. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the complete report.

Description: The Individual Annuity Experience Committee of the Society of Actuaries has completed an experience study of individual payout annuities, covering calendar years 2005 through 2008. The intent of this study is to provide recent annuitant mortality experience which can be compared to the Annuity 2000 Mortality Table and the recently completed 2012 Individual Annuity Mortality Table.

Description: Results of survey conducted in July 2006 about the methods used by insurers to develop their pricing mortality assumptions for fully underwritten life insurance in the U.S. The objective was to understand how companies adjust base mortality tables and whether mortality improvement was assumed.

Description: This report presents the results of individual life insurance lapse experience in the United States between observation years 2009 and 2013. Lapse experience is analyzed for whole life, term life, universal life, and variable universal life plans issued between 1918 and 2012. Results for most key policy and product factors are examined.

Description: This article covers considerations when an international parent may be faced with responsibility for a US retirement program.

Description: This article discusses the impact of increasing activity with respect to Solvency II in the United States.

Description: This is a panel discussion session on external influences on health insurance including cost shifting, regulatory issues, and economic influences. From the Record of the SOA 1983 Vol. 9 No. 2

Description: This session from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses national health policy issues in the U.S. and the impact of these issues on the private health insurance business. Issues include health insurance for the unemployed, non-paying patients and cost shifting, competition versus regulation and DRG prospective pricing for Medicare.

Description: This discussion from the 1983 SOA Vancouver Meeting looks at recent developments in pensions for the United States including TEFRA and Section 415 limits on defined benefit and defined contribution plans, the taxation of social security benefits, and FASB views on pension assets and liabilities. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 9, No. 3.