Description: This is a discussion of the paper, The Mortality of Industrial Policyholders 1950 to 1955 by Edward A. Lew and Mortimer Spiegelman. From Transactions of Society of Actauries 1957, Vol. 9, No. 24.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss variations in policy forms for writing ordinary business for pension or profit sharing plans, plans of insurance providing a monthly income to the end of a fixed period from the date of issue, juvenile insurance, varying dividend rates by policy size rather than graded premiums to reflect expense savings, and ‘bank loan’ and ‘split dollar’ plans. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This article is part of the Digest of Informal Discussion, which took place at the 1956 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held April 19-20 in Hartford, CT. It identifies the participants and summarizes each person’s comments. The participants discuss various issues around guaranteed issue insurance, including companies writing it, restrictions deemed necessary such as preunderwrting as to eligibility, maximum/minimum insurance limits, and minimum number of lives use of special rate bases, dividend classifications, and commission scales expected experience and tendency of better risks to terminate and impaired lives to remain. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1956 Volume 8, Number 21.

Description: This discussion is about various methods for grading premiums and/or cash values by face amount size. Also a discussion of reasonable interest and mortality assumptions for computing retirement income policy maturity values and optional settlement rates guaranteed in new policies.

Description: Table of Contents of ‘Transactions of Society of Actuaries’ 1957 Volume 9.

Description: This paper was presented at the 1955 Society of Actuaries Eastern Spring Meeting, held March 24-25 in New York City. Noting that traditionally, group life insurance has been financed on a yearly renewable term basis, the author discusses the reasons for development of group permanent life insurance and the different funding methods. The author also presents certain analogies with the funding of pension plans, and discusses employee taxability issues under current tax law for the various funding methods. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 18.

Description: This discussion explores actuarial assumptions for interest, mortality and disability. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, Pt. 2.

Description: This Transactions section presents a brief summary of recent publications. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1953, Vol. 5, No. 11.

Description: The subject of this paper is the question: What is the added cost to permit unrestricted election of optional forms of retirement income? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1961, Vol. 13, No. 36 AB.

Description: This discussion examines rates for group annuities and new developments in the pension field with respect to the equity annuity and the cost-of-living annuity. From Transactions of Society of Actauries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.