Description: Discusses the reasons for changing emphasis on reserve strengthening programs and looks at methods adopted to emphasize the reserve character of undistributed surplus.

Description: This report presents the 1980 CSO and 1980 CET Tables on an Age Last Birthday ALB basis. These tables were derived from the 1980 CSO Age Nearest Birthday ANB Tables with the cooperation of the Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This actuarial note is in the nature of an addendum to the paper describing the development of the Commissioners 1960 Standard Group Mortality Table and the 1961 Standard Group Life Insurance Premium Rates based thereon 'TSA, XIII, 586'. A comparison of Canadian to US mortality is made, with this data being used to develop minimum term premiums for Canada.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: Reserves by Different Mortality Tables by Harry Gershenson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Actuarial Note: Terminal Reserves from Mean Reserves and Net Premiums by Dale R. Gustafson. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This article from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17, identifies the participants and summarizes their comments. Discussion topics include: whether changes in ordinary insurance mortality are significant enough to consider preparing a more up-to-date mortality table for reserve purposes problems involved in constructing and securing statutory approval of annuity reserve tables with built in mortality improvement factors extent to which differences between current premium rate mortality assumptions and CSO mortality contribute to problems with deficiency reserves and arguments for and against the adoption of a different actuarial basis for deficiency reserves.

Description: In this paper we use expectations of different random variables to define the notions of retrospective, prospective, individual, and aggregate net premiums for plans with contingent obligations.

Description: This session at a 1962 SOA Regional Meeting is a discussion about methods being used to value accidental death benefits, reducing term riders and deficency reserves.

Description: This actuarial note provides a discussion of modified reserves and minimum cash values when continuous functions are used. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: Description of a method of calculating life insurance reserves when more than one life is involved. Followed by a discussion paper submitted