Description: This paper sets out the basic principles of federal income taxation of annuity payments, together with the general rules for determining which of two possible methods must be used and the general formulas to be used. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1968, Vol. 20, Pt. 1, No. 58.

Description: Shows how to use personal information such as medical history, family characteristics, etc. in a logical statistical fashion for the purpose of modifying an existing mortality table to reflect the collected underwriting information.

Description: The attached report presents the results of a survey whose purpose was to explore life insurance company practices regarding the use of a mortality improvement assumption in the pricing of life insurance products. The survey distinguished between updating base mortality tables for historical mortality improvement versus projecting mortality improvement into the future.

Description: These are abstracts of the following papers: 1. 'DISCONTINUITY AT THE BOUNDARY' by Beda Chan. 2. 'ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BALDUCCI AND UDD.' by Murray Silver. 3. 'PROBLEMS IN AND A SYLLABUS FOR DEMOGRAPHY' by John A. Beckman. 4. 'A MATHEMATICAL APPROACH TO YIELDS UNDER VARYING INVESTMENT CONDITIONS' by A. Spedding. 5. 'COUNTERPART EXPOSURE FORMULAS UNDER THE BALDUCCI AND UNIFORM DEATHS ASSUMPTIONS' by H. J. Boom. 6. 'DUALITY BETWEEN UNIFORM DEATHS AND BALDUCCI ASSUMPTIONS' by Elias S. W. Shiu. 7. 'RECENTLY PUBLISHED U.K. MORTALITY TABLES, METHODS OF CONSTRUCTION, AND POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENTS THEREFROM' by J. J. McCutcheon. From ACTUARIAL RESEARCH CLEARING HOUSE, 1980 VOL. 2.

Description: Sent to potential participants to gather information to better evaluate mortality experience.

Description: The Policyholder Behavior in the Tail Risk Management Section Working Group issued its fifth survey to gather the range of assumptions actuaries use in pricing, reserving, and risk management of minimum guarantees on Variable Annuity products, such as death benefits, income benefits, withdrawal benefits and maturity benefits.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present two new mortality tables for railroad disability annuitants which have been developed recently by the actuarial staff of the Railroad Retirement Board. The tables have been designed for use in the actuarial valuation of the railroad retirement plan as of 1965.

Description: Scale BB was introduced in March 2012 as an interim mortality improvement scale which may be used by pension actuaries until work on a formal successor to the widely used improvement scale, Scale AA, is complete.

Description: This paper presents an analysis of group weekly indemnity continuation table data contributed by seven companies. Claims costs and other data are developed for this short term disability type coverage.

Description: This paper develops and discusses various relations between the Uniform Death Distribution and the Balducci curve. From ACTUARIAL RESEARCH CLEARING HOUSE 1980, VOL. 2.