Description: This presentation, session number 64PD, took place at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The panelists discuss the Society of Actuaries Life Experience Committee’s activities for the year 2000, and the retrospective analysis of X-factors and the role of reinsurers. Discussion from participants is included. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.

Description: The manner in which the actuarial profession models and manages mortality risk is undergoing dramatic changes. New modeling techniques have led to better risk management tools. Capital markets solutions are evolving for insurers wishing to protect against unfavorable mortality developments in both life insurance and annuity products. In this session recent key developments in mortality modeling and in the transfer of mortality risk are examined. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 30, No. 3: Annual Meeting and Exhibit, New York, NY, October 24-27, 2004, Session 133 TS.

Description: The results of the 2016 Group Term Life Experience Study, which includes experience for policies in force anytime during 2010 through 2013.

Description: The results of the 2016 Group Term Life Experience Study, which includes experience for policies in force anytime during 2010 through 2013.

Description: Industry information about some tools and methods used by life insurance companies to mitigate the risk inherent in early duration claims.

Description: There are three commonly used methods for compiling exposure and death data for use in obtaining crude mortality rates. They are lives, policies and amounts of insurance. This paper investigates the properties of estimators based on lives, amounts and robust alternatives. It is concluded that lives provide the best estimator, even when there is a moderate dependence of mortality rates on amounts of insurance. Presented at the Fourteenth Actuarial Research Conference, lowa City, lowa, September 6, 1979.

Description: Summary of the ReFocus 2018 Conference, jointly sponsored by the American Council of Life Insurers and the SOA.

Description: Feature article discussing the development and use of stochastically generated mortality scenarios in VM-20.

Description: View the complete issue for the August 2014 Reinsurance News newsletter.

Description: The article talks about how Small Insurance Companies can make significant use out of experience studies, not to just to comply with PBR or other regulatory requirements, but also in managing their business.