Description: This report presents the annual survey of long-term lapsation examining the experience of ordinary insurance, whole life and term insurance in Canada between the 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1984 Reports

Description: This paper surveys the actuarial techniques connected with salary scale mathematics for the valuation of defined benefit pension plans. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: This study examines the persistency of deferred annuities on a contract anniversary basis for 1992 and 1993 anniversaries. One purpose of this study is to analyze the surrender activity of deferred annuities by selected product, customer, and distribution characteristics. This study is the first to examine surrender activity of all types of deferred annuities.

Description: In this paper, the coefficients of the minimum-Rz moving-weighted-average formulas are derived using matrix algebra and the method of Lagrange multipliers. Reviewer's note: This mathematics can be useful in the graduation process of mortality and morbidity table construction

Description: This annual survey of long-term lapsation prepared by the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association examines the experience of ordinary insurance in the U.S. between 1985 and 1986 policy anniversaries.

Description: This report presents results from the study undertaken during 1993 and 1994 by the Direct Response Persistency and Mortality Task Force. Direct response product experience is presented for persistency, and mortality for both underwritten and guaranteed issue products.

Description: This paper and subsequent Railroad Retirement Board remarriage tables are results from a culmination of remarriage studies from the period 1947-56. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 32.

Description: This is a list of members on the Mortality and Morbidity Experience Studies Committees.

Description: In this paper, methods are presented that allow the systematic graduation of multidimensional data subject to linear constraints. With these constraints the practitioner can impose limitations on the graduation that agree with prior knowledge. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: Provides new tables that show the average relationship between weight, height and girth. Based on 1959 Build and Blood Pressure Study. Comparisons to a similar table prepared in 1929, by Dr. Charles P. Clark, are made. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1966 Reports.