Description: This reports on a survey that looks at the mortality experience of Industrial policyholders of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company for the postwar years of 1946 to 1950. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: At this session, experts will provide an overview of current statutory valuation issues pertaining to life and annuity products. The focus is on activities of the American Academy of Actuaries relative to principle-based approaches, but other matters will be covered, including the status of the NAIC valuation manual, life risk-based capital, developments at the NAIC affecting life insurance companies, and practice issues for appointed actuaries.

Description: Study of the Pareto distribution and its affect on life contingencies. Includes examples of the mortality model, actuarial present values, and whole life premiums.

Description: This paper analyzes the situation which would arise in a system which provided benefits based on life contingencies and where all participants paid insufficient premiums and the mathematical illustration of the resulting bankruptcy. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: The Society of Actuaries Product Development Section, the Modeling Section, the Reinsurance Section and the Financial Reporting Section announce the release of a new research report that introduces a novel framework for leveraging the "architecture" of an industry mortality table within a company's predictive analytics-based insured mortality analysis.

Description: This report has been assembled by the Task Force as a comprehensive guide to practicing actuaries in evaluating the impact of AIDS on the solvency of life and health insurance companies in the US and Canada. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1988, Vol. 40, Pt. 2.