Description: This article outlines a practical approach for setting mortality rates using credibility theory. It includes formulas that can easily be applied to determine how much credibility to assign to the results of a mortality experience study.

Description: The purpose of this report is to develop information that may be useful to the Pennsylvania legislature in its efforts to regulate the funding of pre-need contracts. What we have done is to develop a theoretical basis for regulation and then to suggest some practical approaches to initial implementation.

Description: Examines historical life insurance and annuity policyholder mortality improvement trends and/or mortality improvement rates and how they compare to that of the general US and international populations. Discusses techniques for modeling and projecting future mortality improvements

Description: We suggest a new method of latent variable analysis and apply it for describing mortality changes in developed countries over the period of 1900--2014.

Description: Discusses the natural history of AIDS and some of the impact on underwriting, the methods for projecting the epidemic from both a population and insurance standpoint, the potential of the AIDS epidemic in terms of reinsurance and solvency reserves. From the 1988 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 14, No. 2.

Description: An examination of the increase in mortality rate for Alzheimer's during the period 2000-2010

Description: Identifies current trends and considerations when setting the mortality improvement assumption for individual life insurance in the US.

Description: The Society’s Committee to Recommend a New Mortality Basis for Individual Annuity Valuation was formed in 1980 at NAIC request because the margins in the 1971 IAM Table had eroded. This article describes the development of the 1983 Table a and shows how well the 1973 Experience Table fits the underlying data.

Description: This article discusses the findings of the January 2007 paper regarding the mortality experience Fellows of the Society of Actuaries. The on–line my paper Mortality Experience of Members of the Society of Actuaries investigated the mortality experience of 3,037 members of the Society, including all Fellows who attained fellowship through 1974. This note takes the investigation through one more class of Fellows 1975 Fellows.

Description: This is a reprint of a 'tongue-in-cheek' letter that appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association about correlation between life expectancy and the length of life lines.