Description: The abstract for the paper Mortality Laws and Models, Part 2 - Application of Mortality Models to Japan.

Description: A frustrating aspect of pension funding rules for U.S. plan sponsors is that contribution requirements are adversely correlated with business cycles. For example, not only did plan sponsors get hit with large contribution requirements in the perfect storm of the early 2000s, but many sponsors were prohibited from contributing in the late 1990s boom due to full funding limitations. This is the abstract of a paper that proposes that plan sponsors be allowed to contribute the normal cost as a deductible contribution each year. In hindsight, this would have allowed plan sponsors to pay for benefits as they accrued in the late 1990s and ultimately mitigated some of the crash of the early 2000s. The authors aim to demonstrate that a contribution policy allowing contributions to be at least equal to the normal cost will result in less volatility of contributions and improve the funded status over time.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that separates mortality into component parts in order to analyze observed trends over time.

Description: Commentary from Robert Myers regarding the apparent success of the actuarial cost estimating procedure for the Social Security program on its 40th anniversary.

Description: Mortality rates for a local community are desired in conjunction with the calculation of health-adjusted life expectancy HALE, an indicator of population health.

Description: The abstract for the paper Mortality at Advanced Aged in the United Kingdom.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that proposes a method to measure basis risk of extreme mortality CAT bonds.

Description: This is an abstract article on joint life mortality by Min Ji. ARCH 2008, Issue 1.

Description: The abstract for the paper An Extreme Value Analysis of Advanced Age Mortality Data.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that measures the magnitude of the systematic bias, found when using the Lee-Carter model for mortality prediction, using the bootstrap method and also provides suggestions on how to correct the bias.