Description: This article discusses the implications of a groundbreaking test that can help people determine how long they have left to live.

Description: Summary of the recommendations of the Society of Actuaries Mortality Study Working Group, whose purpose was to re-evaluate the scope and content of the Society’s mortality experience studies and to develop long term strategic direction.

Description: A discussion of the development, key elements, applications, and implementation process of the 2001 CSO Tables for individual life insurance policies for computing minimum reserves, nonforfeiture benefits and tax reserves.

Description: A follow-up to the article “Comfort Food for an Actuary: Cognitive Testing in Underwriting the Elderly,” published in the May 2006 edition of Product Matters! This article presents the updated results, based upon three more years of data, of the Delayed Word Recall DWR Test mortality study. mortality study.

Description: The National Center For Health Statistics recently came out with preliminary 2006 U.S. population mortality statistics—showing lower mortality and a record life expectancy!

Description: This article talks about longevity risk and reinsurance and its global challenges.

Description: This paper presents a brief history of life insurance risk assessment and explores a future including wearable devices, genetic testing and digital health data

Description: This paper analyzes which of the factors that affect retirement mortality determined in Phase I of the FARM project should be added to the existing mortality studies of the Society of Actuaries. Some factors were added or modified and two were dropped from those in Phase I.

Description: Observations of the meeting in Orlando of the 2017 Living to 100 Symposium, including summaries of the remarks by the guest speakers.

Description: This paper, presented by Gordon J. Munro at the Eastern Spring Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held March 24-25, 1960 in Washington, D.C., determines monetary functions of group annuity mortality based on the Ga-1951 Male Table, projected to 1960 by Projection Scale C. Includes discussion and errata sheet. From 1960 Transactions Vol. 12, No. 33.