Description: These are presentation slides to supplement, Mortality Under Standard Individuality Life Insurance Between 1999–2002 Anniversaries from ARCH, January 2006.

Description: Presentation on Mortality Trends to the Retirement Industry Conference

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss underwriting for occupations such as aviation, where traditionally additional charges over standard rates have been made. In light of improving mortality from occupational hazards, the participants discuss whether most occupations should be rated standard, and the impact of such changes.

Description: Presenters will discuss mortality improvement as it applies to various lines of business with an emphasis on how individual life findings can be used to fine tune group life assumptions. In particular, it is important to know that there is not a single percentage of annual mortality improvement. Rather, experience shows that the rate of mortality improvement varies by factors such as attained age and target market.

Description: This session 34PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting covers the recent path-breaking research investigates the reasons that females live longer than males in virtually all societies, and even across species. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 34PD.

Description: This presentation studies the mortality prediction performance of the Lee-Carter model.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, The Mortality of Industrial Policyholders 1950 to 1955 by Edward A. Lew and Mortimer Spiegelman. From Transactions of Society of Actauries 1957, Vol. 9, No. 24.

Description: Are you 'dying' to learn about how the mortality data, submitted under the NAIC's Valuation Manual Experience Reporting Requirements (VM50 & VM51), is used? The SOA's Individual Life Experience Committee (ILEC) will describe the data validation 'experience' and explain on how the data eventually influences statutory valuation requirements. The presenters will also 'expose' attendees to the latest insights and observations in the data. Attend this session and learn how the SOA 'minds it's p's and q's' in individual life insurance. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to: - Describe the various types of SOA research that have been performed on the data collected under VM50 and VM51 - Describe the database, released by the SOA, that is compiled from the data collected under VM50 and VM51 - Explain the importance of data quality in VM50 submissions - Identify how the data that is submitted under VM50 would be used to determine Principle-Based Reserving requirement

Description: This discussion looks at the conclusions drawn from the Double Indemnity Study in mortality rates, noting a wide variation between companies. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 30 AB.

Description: This presentation from the 1995 SOA New York Meeting covers AIDS, where the disease is now, how the forecasts compare to what has actually happened and the current impact on pricing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 2.