Description: Second article in a series on how to use predictive analytics to improve the development of long-term care projection assumptions.

Description: Summary of the NAIC and SOA's PBR Survey.

Description: The Committee's investigations prepared in 1950 covered the following matters: I. Group Annuity Mortality II. Group Life Insurance III. Group Accident and Health Insurance, including Group Hospital and Surgical Expense Insurance. The details of these investigations were published separately from this document, which merely sets forth a brief description of the studies.

Description: Update of previous reports on aviation fatalities: for the period 1946-1951. Also includes corrections to previous reports of the Committee.

Description: This article gives examples of how an actuary can live by the actuarial motto of substituting facts for appearances. The specific examples given are setting the mortality for table shaved individual life business and setting late duration lapse assumptions for level term business.

Description: The effect on mortality of the reduction in smoking and the increase obesity in the U.S. is estimated based on historical and projected patterns.

Description: 2001 CSO preferred class structure mortality tables.

Description: A paper analyzing cause of death population statistics. Discussion of sources of reporting data with respect to both occupation at death and cause of death especially when there are multiple causes. In the present paper the writer attributes much of the confusion in medical literature on mortality trends to the emphases placed on coronary disease as a cause of death. However, regarding the group of diseases known on the North American Continent as cardiovascular-renal disease the author establishes that the medical and other professions do experience a definitely higher mortality from this disease. Followed by 2 discussion papers submitted

Description: Mortality Credibility and its use within VM-20.

Description: Feature article discussing the Life Settlements business: recent growth, pricing, and future of the business.