Description: Recent mortality experience of Servicemen's Group Life Insurance SGLI from the Veteran's Administration, separated by Viet Nam and non-Viet Nam experience.

Description: The author, as Chief Actuary, Veterans Administration, submitted this mortality experience of Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance for years 1967 to 1969.

Description: This report covers the U.S. intercompany mortality experience by amount of life insurance under standard individually underwritten issues between 1988 and 1989 anniversaries. The report also combines experience between 1984 and 1989 so that broader comparisons can be made for males vs. females, smoker vs. nonsmoker, and medical vs. nonmedical issues.

Description: Future mortality improvement has been a common assumption in life insurance and annuity pricing and forecasting for many years. However, experience over the last decade suggests this might be an assumption that merits reconsideration in the United States. This article will take a closer look at factors that impact mortality improvement trends and discuss why insurers may want to reevaluate product designs to better manage the associated mortality risk. We then introduce a product idea with this in mind, where premiums are based on a life expectancy index and insurers share the risk (and opportunity) or mortality improvement with policyholders.

Description: The author prepared the static Ga-1951 Male Mortality Table using Projection Scale C to 1970 and has graduated the results with a Gompertz formula.

Description: This is the table of contents for the 1972 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: This article discusses to what extent mortality tables obey Benford’s Law.

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 is a discussion of the paper, 'The New Standard Ordinary Mortality Table' by Charles M. Sternhell.

Description: This report covers the U.S. intercompany mortality experience by amount of life insurance under standard individually underwritten issues between 1989 and 1990 anniversaries. The report also combines experience between 1985 and 1990 so that broader comparisons can be made for males vs. females, smoker vs. nonsmoker, and medical vs. nonmedical issues.