Description: Discussion of the 1958 CSO Mortality Table: 1. Considerations regarding continuous functions, age last birthday and changing reserve methods 2. Likelihood of Canadian adoption 3. Impact on extended insurance and automatic premium loan provisions.

Description: A research paper that outlines a seamless method of deriving assumptions for modern reserving and solvency capital requirements from a company’s own data.

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: Mortality improvement rates for AG38 for 2017.

Description: This paper deals with the problem of determining the effect on reserves of variations in the assumptions. A general approach to this problem is presented and then used to extend Lidstone's theorem, mainly to cases involving a nonmonotone critical function. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

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 is a digest of of informal discussions recorded in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 27. Topics addressed: 1. Need for a new life valuation table. 2. Special policies such as Family Plans and Bank Loan and Split Dollar Plans. 3. Trends in agent compensation.

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.