Description: This article discusses international proposals for accounting reform that would establish a global common measurement approach for the large majority of life insurance and annuity products.

Description: This graph indicates the overall historical trend in life expectancy by gender at birth.

Description: Shows the average historical and estimated annual mortality improvement by age grouping for the three countries, both in terms of long averages and the ultimate level assumed.

Description: This article discusses the decision to have the International Actuarial Association and the International Forum of Actuarial Associations be administered by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries in Ottawa.

Description: This is an example of male life expectancy at age 65 from the United States.

Description: This is the Data Analysis Tool for the Mortality Improvement Model, MIM-2021.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute’s Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program is pleased to release a collection of essays addressing the impact of inflation on retirement and retirement-related issues.

Description: This paper presents recent trends in obesity prevalence in significant population segments, including overall effects by age, gender and certain racial and ethnic groups, and discusses the ways in which obesity can influence mortality in each of these segments. It provides a synthesis of reported mortality experience relating to these behaviors by risk factors and diseases that will affect any mortality projection.

Description: Feature article about the effects of obesity on life expectancy and how actuaries will be affected.

Description: A summary of the 2001 Individual Life and Annuity Expense Study