Description: In session 71 PD of the Montreal Spring Meeting panelists discuss how banks have entered the insurance markets in Canada, the U.S., U.K. and continental Europe. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 2.

Description: Dr. Ellen Torrance has called our attention to a rather serious emerging national problem: “In the year 1975 the U.S. population grew from 211.9 million to 213.6 million, and the number of FSA’s grew from 2,575 to 2,779. Assuming the same rates of increase, by the year 2140 AD there will be more FSA’s than people.”

Description: This is theThis is the mortality tables that appear in the 2000-2004 Preneed Insurance Mortality Study report. Please see the SOA website for the complete report.

Description: Table from an article in The Actuary Magazine on business strategy.

Description: This experience study, from the Society of Actuaries [SOA] ‘Experience Studies – Individual Life,’ was conducted by the SOA’s Committee on Life Insurance Company Expenses [CLICE]. CLICE has developed and conducted inter-company expense experience studies annually since 2001. This report documents the results of the Committee’s eighth expense study. Updated in July, 2011.

Description: This discussion provides an overview of the SOA research process, reviews the new turnover tables and efforts to model probable outcomes of proposed legislation on the U.S. economy. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 22, No. 3.

Description: This is the excel spreadsheet for appendix G for limited underwriting mortality. The full report describes the development of the 2008 Valuation Basic Table. It incorporates the Primary Tables, the Relative Risk Tables and the Limited Underwriting Tables. Please see SOA website experience studies for the full report and the other appendices.

Description: Solicited by the American Council of Life Insurers (ACLI), this is the perferred version of the 2001 CSO mortality tables.

Description: Covers long-term lapse study examining the lapsation of ordinary insurance in the U.S. between 1988 and 1989 policy anniversaries, based on face and count.

Description: Provides highlights of the results of a 1985 Career Encouragement Committee Survey, which solicited information from 1,400 U.S. and Canadian employers about their actuary and student hiring processes. 270 companies responded.