Description: This session is about recent population experience, likely causes, probable future prospects, Industry mortality differentials and trends by product line,market and type of underwriting, What statistically credible evidence do we have for the efficacy of life insurance underwriting practices, What does the new Intercompany Standard Issues study show and Are there sound biological laws of mortality. From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 5, No. 4.

Description: This article summarizes two special mortality and lapse studies - experience on Term Conversions and Guaranteed Insurability Options between 1961 and 1966 policy anniversaries.

Description: This report contains a set of basic mortality tables for Preneed business.

Description: This paper describes the method of preparation of new mortality tables for the Soviet Union based on census data. A comparison of mortality and life expectancy between the Soviet Union, U.S. and Norway is presented. Doubts are raised about the quality of data from the Soviet Union at the highest ages.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss a 1954 Committee Report on annuitant mortality, and ask if the present bases and valuation standards for individual annuities and settlement options are satisfactory, in light of improving annuitant mortality. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: The Preferred Mortality Valuation Table Team prepared this presentation for the June 2008 NAIC LHATF Meeting. The Adobe Acrobat file on the SOA website for experience studies contains the presentation.This Excel workbook is a tool the valuation table team is using to develop values relating to margins for the new valuation mortality table. The purpose of the workbook is to evaluate different margin formulas and valuation tables. Also used for analysis of mortality margins on Valuation Basic Tables.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee has completed their latest report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2004-05. This is the Excel Aggregate data pivot tables that provide more detail for policy years 2004-05. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.

Description: The most recently released US population mortality experience from 2016 is analyzed along with prior available mortality data going back to 1999.

Description: This is an article about retirement age and life expectancy. The article compares the normal retirement age and life expectancy in Germany and the United States.

Description: This article lists participating companies and countries with the International Experience Study and describes the process of adding additional countries to the study.