Description: In this session, the following essays from the Society of Actuaries Living to 100 Call for Essays are presented. Essays: Potential for Mortality Improvement from Cognitive and Psychological Factors – Gordon Woo, – Ph. D. How Growing Inequality in the United States Makes Long-Term Care Financing Reform A Lot Harder – Karl Polzer – MPA Alcohol and Mortality, Sam Gutterman, FSA, CERA, FCA, FCA, HONFIA, MAAA

Description: This is a summary of some thought-provoking presentations at the 2008 Living to 100 Symposium, where the implications of greater longevity were discussed.

Description: This article is an update, as of May 2021, on Financial Reporting Section sponsored projects in process and those recently completed

Description: Research is a primary mission of the Financial Reporting Section and a significant use of our section dues revenue. Here is an update, as of September 2017, on projects in process and those recently completed.

Description: This is an article discussing the update on the SOA international experience study which has expanded the topics being studied from individual life insurance mortality and persistency experience to also include agent retention and productivity.

Description: Full version of Product Matters! February 2007, Issue No. 67.

Description: Results of a company practice survey is presented. Among the areas to be addressed include the structure of accelerated underwriting programs, how programs are monitored, how accelerated underwritten business is performing relative to expectations, and how companies are considering accelerated underwriting cohorts in the context of VM-20 assumption setting.

Description: Discussion of January 2008 'Living to 100 and Beyond' Symposia co-sponsored by the Society of Actuaries.