Description: Overview of SOA research projects and experience studies in the works, from those in early development to those just released.

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.

Description: Covers the 1981 - 1982 calendar year mortality experience of retired individuals who are covered under insured pension plans in the United States and Canada.

Description: This is a panel discussion about H.R. 10 pension plans, i.e., tax deferred retirement savings plans for the owners of an unincorporated business and its employees. The following questions are addressed: To what extent is coverage under H.R. 10 being provided under individual policies and under group contracts? What problems are presented in each approach? If special plans are used, what provisions must be included? If normal contracts are used, what modifications or endorsements must be made? What plans are generally used? If split-funding is not used with normal contracts, how are increases in contributions handled? To what extent are trust or custodial accounts being used? From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1964, Vol. 16 Pt. 2.

Description: Proposes an approach to develop dynamic assumptions for living benefits using a combination of available experience data and predictive modeling techniques.

Description: Report includes a special study of the mortality experience of retirements under contingent annuitant options in addition to the regular matured life study that has been presented in prior years.

Description: The Group Annuity Experience Committee performs biennial mortality studies of insurance company annuity experience under group pension contracts issued primarily in the United States. This report covers two biennial experience periods, 2003-2004 and 2005-2006.