Description: The article summarizes the results of the 2022 U.S. and Canadian Life Reinsurance Survey, for both Individual Life and Group Life business, conducted by the Reinsurance Section of the Society of Actuaries.

Description: A summary of the 1963-1965 study of the mortality experience under Canadian group term life insurance policies by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries.

Description: This article discusses that mortality tables should reflect improving mortality. The Group Annuity Mortality table GAM-83 is probably the most common table used by pension actuaries—75 percent of the plans in Watson Wyatt’s “2003 Survey of Actuarial Assumptions and Funding” use GAM-83 for funding calculations. However, there are three more recently published tables that warrant consideration for use in pension valuations: UP-94, GAM-94 and RP-2000. From Pension Section News, January 2006, No. 60.

Description: Draft Pre-Need Model proposed by National Association of Insurance Commissioners, NAIC, is analyzed from tax standpoint of both insurers, through sec. 807, and policyholders, through secs. 7702 and 7702A.

Description: A new project combining survey data from people across the country with data from John's Hopkins and the CDC on COVID cases and deaths. This project provides weekly data for individuals, businesses, and policy makers to understand which COVID mitigation efforts are in place in their area, how they are working, and how different COVID mitigation methods have been working in different parts of the country.

Description: This paper presents blended 1980 CSO and Commissioners Extended Term CET Smoker and Nonsmoker mortality tables using the same methodology and pivotal age as used in the composite blended tables and for the same percentages of male to total, viz., 80, 60, 50, 40, and 20 percent. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1987, Vol. 39.

Description: This is the list of committee members for the various Committees on Mortality and Morbidity.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has not simply changed the way we live. It has caused most of us—whether we want to or not—to reassess the way we think and feel about our world. Most in the general public have been looking to political and medical leaders to better understand the implications to health and wealth. Likewise, we as actuaries look to business leaders and key volunteers for their insights into the impact on our profession. We recently conducted a series of interviews with such leaders in the Canadian actuarial profession. This article addresses their insights into the evolving set of skills we need in this rapidly changing world.

Description: This article about the Servicemen’s Group Life Insurance SGLI and Veterans’ Group Life Insurance VGLI programs includes a brief history and provides 1974-76 SGLI experience data from the Twelfth Annual Report June 1977.

Description: Milliman was engaged by the SOA to conduct two Accelerated Underwriting (AU) surveys, one of direct companies and another of reinsurers. The surveys explored actual results from 2019–2021 and expected results from 2022.