Description: Highlights of the International Experience Study (IES), a joint research venture of the SOA’s International Section and Research Department, the International Actuarial Association, local actuarial associations and corporate sponsors to provide actuaries around the world with practical experience information in emerging markets.

Description: A summary of the progress and recommendations of the Mortality Study Working Group and a request support in implementing the recommendations.

Description: This paper presents the modeling of mortality risk from exposure to a potential future extreme event such as a natural disaster and a terrorist attack, and its impact on life insurance. With this new model, quantities associated with the total force of mortality such as survival function are derived and the impact of mortality risk on life insurance is examined.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that measures the magnitude of the systematic bias, found when using the Lee-Carter model for mortality prediction, using the bootstrap method and also provides suggestions on how to correct the bias.

Description: Using the Cox proportional Hazards Model to improve underwriting debits and credits.

Description: Discussion of a direct writer survey and a reinsurer survey conducted in the fall of 2002 by the Society of Actuaries. The surveys asked a number of questions about underwriting criteria needed to qualify for preferred risk. They also asked questions about the percentage of issues in each underwriting category and the mortality assumptions for the different categories.

Description: A discussion of the Society of Actuaries study of Mortality Under Standard Individually Underwritten Life Insurance Between 1995 and 1996 Policy Anniversaries.”

Description: This study covers inter-company mortality experience under standard ordinary insurance issues between 1967 AND 1968 anniversaries.

Description: This is the table of contents of the 1971 reports of mortality and morbidity experience.

Description: This 1972 report covers the intercompany mortality experience under Standard Ordinary insurance issues between 1970 and 1971 anniversaries, and also for the period between 1966 and 1971 anniversaries where the volume of data over one year's exposure was insufficient.