Description: This report, authored by Cathy Ho and Nancy Muise, represents the results of individual life insurance lapse experience for guaranteed issue and simplified issue life in the United States. Lapse experience for a subset of these data that is specified as pre-need life insurance is also reported. The data collected covers policy experience from 2005 to 2009.

Description: A report to explain the new Valuation Basic Tables (VBT), Relative Risk tables (RR), and Commissioners Standard Ordinary Mortality Tables (CSO)

Description: This is the accompanying spreadsheet for the 2001-02 U.S. Individual Life Persistency Update report. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report.

Description: This report helps to identify key socioeconomic trends influencing the need and demand for the industry's products and services, and how these trends will influence marketing methods.

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: Discusses plan design, suitability for issue by small companies, policy experience, sales results, administrative and filing problems.

Description: This discussion focuses on underwriting for war risk including antiselection issues, the advantages and disadvantages of a permanent war clause in policies, and insuring combat and non-combat related aviation hazards.

Description: A. Discusssion of the practical considerations involved in deciding whether or not to adopt projected mortality rates in connection with individual annuities, settlement options, retirement income policies, and the various forms of group annuities. B. In view of increased administrative expenses, discussion of the arguments for and against imposing limitations on the granting of settlement options with respect to size of policy, including the practicality of providing for the expense of administering supplementary contracts other than through the use of conservative mortality and interest assumptions.

Description: Discussion of the following underwriting topics: A. In view of the low rates of mortality currently experienced on standard lives, is the standard classification too narrow? B. Do substandard extra premiums at the lower ratings make fair provision for the additional expenses incurred on substandard policies? C. What problems are encountered in issuing life insurance on persons residing outside the continental United States and Canada? D. What changes have been made recently in non-medical selection and why? E. How could greater use be made of mortality or morbidity studies conducted by hospitals, clinics, government agencies, universities and others outside of the life insurance business?

Description: This article is from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 20. The article identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss a variety of topics, such as the use of sampling techniques and quality control in actuarial work, and administrative measures taken to reduce expenses on small Ordinary policies. The discussion also looked at what the Society of Actuaries and local actuarial clubs should do, at the secondary school or college level, to increase the number of college graduates entering the actuarial field.