Description: Covers individual life Canadian mortality experience for 1988 - 1989 anniversaries. Historical data from 1981 forward is also shown.

Description: In this paper, we investigate the dynamics of the Lee-Carter mortality index parameter kt. Specifically, we perform statistical hypothesis tests to examine whether the mortality indexes for Canada, England and Wales and the United States are best described by stochastic trends difference stationary models or deterministic trends trend stationary models. The empirical results favor broken-trend stationary models over difference stationary models, which are used in most previous applications of the Lee-Carter method. The results also give strong statistical evidence that the rates of mortality decline for the three populations have significantly accelerated in mid-1970s.

Description: This is the informal discussion transcript for Concurrent Session 2A: Drivers of Future Mortality for the January 4-6, 2017 Living to 100 Symposium in Orlando.

Description: The Q&A’s contain additional background information on the development, application and impact of Scale BB. Scale BB was introduced in March 2012 as an interim mortality improvement scale which may be used by pension actuaries until work on a formal successor to the widely used improvement scale, Scale AA, is complete.

Description: Discussion of the extent to which current SOA studies are useful and in what ways and their shortcomings.

Description: This paper presents the discussions on the paper Recent Trends in Mortality of the Aged. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: 1993 SOA Annual Meeting, New York. This session is about status of new mortality table developments in the pension arena, impact of new mortality tables on annuity valuations, and the effect of new mortality tables on defined-benefit plan minimum funding and pension expensing.

Description: Presented at May 1996 Spring Meeting. This session analyzes the factors that influence the mortality differences between countries and between population and insured-lives mortality.

Description: This paper presents a discussion on the paper titled, 'Work Life Expectancy as a Measure of Damages' by Thomas C. Smith and Frank L. Griffin, Jr. The technical aspects of the original paper are discussed, legal precedents for damage findings, and additional factors to be considered in determining damages.

Description: This is a final report to estimate the total economic cost of obesity. This study looks at the economic costs of obesity caused by increased need for medical care, and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability. The Society of Actuaries breaks out the economic cost of overweight versus obesity for the U.S. and for Canada.