Description: This abstract describes a paper that introduces spatio-temporal models and methods for analysis with specific emphasis on quantities of interest in actuarial science. Generalized additive mixed models are used for the analysis of geographic and temporal variability of mortality rates.

Description: The author provides highlights from a March 2012 seminar on longevity risk sponsored by the Actuarial Society of New York (ASNY).

Description: The abstract for the paper Mortality Laws and Models, Part 2 - Application of Mortality Models to Japan.

Description: The abstract for the paper Data Sources, Quality and Analyses - Data Quality of Oldest-Old Population in Taiwan 2003 Census for Ages 89 and above.

Description: Expert discussion on several previously presented papers. From 2005 Living to 100 and Beyond Monograph, M-LI05-1.

Description: This paper presents a general law of mortality that is equal to a mixture of Gompertz, Weibull, Inverse-Gompertz, and Inverse-Weibull survival functions.

Description: This paper discusses the marketing implications of the baby boom generation and the aging of the Canadian population in general. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol.1.

Description: This paper presents a new method for blending census and Medicare mortality rates for the U.S. Decennial Life Tables. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1992 Vol. 2 .

Description: This article was presented at the 1975 Spring Cincinnati Joint Meeting of the Conference of Actuaries in Public Practice and Society of Actuaries and addresses the impact of the following changes on future needs for pension coverage, future amounts of pension benefits, and costs of funding.

Description: This article is a follow up to an article in the February, 1977 issue of the actuary, which was a discussion of the article, Sex and the Single Table. This article is a reply by Barbara J. Lautzenheiser, FSA, author of Sex and the Single Table, to a comment her original article generated. This current article again provides an excellent explanation of actuarial risk classification practices, and of the legal and social issues used to argue against risk classification, noting that if society does favor policy that overrides risk classification based on gender, such as promoting unisex tables for determining pension payments, then the implications should be understood.