Description: This is a panel discussion on the mortality of smokers and nonsmokers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2

Description: A summary of the progress and recommendations of the Mortality Study Working Group and a request support in implementing the recommendations.

Description: In this paper the authors discuss the official decennial Unites States Life Tables for 1979-81, presenting age-specific mortality rates and expectations of life. Mortality trends are examined going back to the first decennial tables published at the beginning of the century, and brief comparisons with mortality in other industrialized countries are made. The paper includes written discussion. From the 1985 Transactions Vol. 37.

Description: The abstract for the paper The Lee-Carter Model for Forecasting Mortality Revisited.

Description: Transcript of the Q&A period from Session 6A: Projection and Statistical Modeling of Mortality at Late Age

Description: Presented at Living to 100 Symposium, January 2011. This paper explores the select period and the wealth effect at older ages, and also examines mortality rates for three distinct senior populations: 1. the U.S. population, through an annual sample of the Medicare database of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2. the life settlement population of an independent life settlement underwriter, 21st Services LLC, and 3. the population implied by the Society of Actuaries' 2008 Valuation Basic Tables VBT.

Description: This article proposes a framework for estimating mortality improvement models and analyzing the parameter uncertainty in such models.

Description: An update to the 1975-79 report, this time including experience by amounts as well as by lives.

Description: A follow-up to the first Preferred Class Structure Report, which contains the additional analysis of areas identified while preparing the first report of preferred class structure data from statistical agent submissions.

Description: This study was undertaken to review pooled companies’ mortality experience on cases reported to the MIB with findings suggesting an increased probability of ethanol-related complications or hepatic dysfunction.