Description: Presenter of session 48OF of the New York Annual Meeting discusses the psychology of investing. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 24, No. 3.

Description: The Joint Committee on Health Insurance appointed a subcommittee, known as Task Force 4, to study the problems of reserves for accident and health insurance. The final report of the Task Force, including basic tables of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance, was adopted by the NAIC at its December 1956 meeting. This article contains the Task Force's final report [included as Appendix A] and 30 Tables for use in valuing hospital and surgical expense insurance in accordance with the recommendations of Task Force 4. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1957, Vol. 9, No. 25.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Research Institute is pleased to make available a report that aims to understand the cause of low annuity demand through the angle of mortality model uncertainty.

Description: This panel discussion is about public pension plans including nondiscrimination issues, plan design issues, funding, political considerations, public plans as a source of budget revenue and other current topics. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 18, No. 1A.

Description: The paper analyzes recent individual annuity mortality experience, derives comparative annual mortality improvement rates and, in particular, examines in detail the 1976-86 experience in the most recent Report of the Individual Annuity Experience Committee. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: This session from the 1984 SOA Toronto Meeting discusses GAAP Accounting Alternatives For New Products including SPDA's, Universal Life, fixed premium variable life, review of the Audit Guide and the recoginition of premium revenue and variable universal life. From Record of the Society of Actuaries Vol. 10, No. 4B

Description: This study develops a detailed set of life tables by socioeconomic category and examines mortality trends in the United States from 1999 to 2018.

Description: This panel discussion takes an in depth look at SOA and Academy committee proposals on actuarial principles and practices with respect to setting dividends for participating insurance. Discussion centered on equity in distributing surplus and appropriate methods and assumptions.

Description: This session explores the potential cash-flow and financial accounting implications of the equity market decline. The discussion focuses on ways to present these results to clients and asset/liability matching techniques that can be used to dampen the significance of this change. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2, Session 61pd.

Description: Given the readiness of several stakeholders (including regulators and some plan sponsors) to endorse and implement TBPs, there is a need for easily accessible, actuarially sound information about the key elements of design and funding that can significantly affect the performance of such plans. Our project begins to address this need by investigating through stochastic modeling the way in which different design features and funding strategies impact performance over the short- and long-term. The key objectives of the research were to: • Identify basic dynamics of target benefit plans under specific key designs, starting from the simplest ones and noting the impact of more complex design elements. • Identify appropriate performance metrics for TBPs. • Identify some areas where future research may be needed. The purpose of this report is to document the models used, and to provide background and context for the Issue Briefs relating to this work.