Description: This article lists participating companies and countries with the International Experience Study and describes the process of adding additional countries to the study.

Description: This paper describes the method of preparation of new mortality tables for the Soviet Union based on census data. A comparison of mortality and life expectancy between the Soviet Union, U.S. and Norway is presented. Doubts are raised about the quality of data from the Soviet Union at the highest ages.

Description: The Preferred Mortality Valuation Table Team prepared this presentation for the June 2008 NAIC LHATF Meeting. The Adobe Acrobat file on the SOA website for experience studies contains the presentation.This Excel workbook is a tool the valuation table team is using to develop values relating to margins for the new valuation mortality table. The purpose of the workbook is to evaluate different margin formulas and valuation tables. Also used for analysis of mortality margins on Valuation Basic Tables.

Description: The Individual Life Experience Committee has completed their latest report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2004-05. This is the Excel Aggregate data pivot tables that provide more detail for policy years 2004-05. Please see the SOA website experience studies for the full report and other related tables.

Description: The Society of Actuaries' Group Annuity Experience Committee has completed this experience update, which presents the 2015 through 2016 calendar year experience of retired individuals in the United States who are covered under group pension contracts. This update compares these most recent two years of available experience to the 2011-14 period and analyzes how the recent data affects aggregate annual mortality improvement in the group annuity experience data since 2007.

Description: This article gives a brief summary of an experience study on the frequency of simultaneous death claims among joint insureds.

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

Description: This paper has a brief description of concluded investigations for mortality and morbidity for group life insurance, disability claims, group accident and health insurance and group annuity. The actual studies are published separately from this paper. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

Description: The Retirement Plans Experience Committee RPEC of the Society of Actuaries SOA is a standing committee that monitors pension plan mortality experience. Most recently, the committee developed the RP-2000 mortality table. This table was the first published North American mortality table based solely upon private sector pension plan mortality experience. Previous tables developed by the RPEC such as GAR-94 and UP-94 were based primarily on a combination of group annuity, and U.S. federal employees and retirees mortality experience. From Pension Section News, April 2006, Issue No. 61.

Description: In this article the editor previews the issue.