Description: The purpose of this paper is to outline some of the points to be considered in arriving at a method of making cost estimates and funding calculations and their practical application.

Description: This report presents the formal recommendation for a new mortality basis for individual annuity valuations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This is the 1975 report of mortality on group annuity lives broken down by time of retirement as measured against the normal retirement date.

Description: This paper discusses the administration and valuation of ill-health terminations under group annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: This paper presents a new group annuity mortality table which is being proposed as a new Statutory valuation table.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'Group Annuity Mortality' by Ray M. Peterson, which presents the Group Annuity Table for 1951 with projection factors. The paper is reviewed, an additional projection method is suggested with illustrations, discussion of the difficulties of using projected rates for premiums and reserves, and critiques are provided.

Description: 1959 SOA Regional Meetings in Atlanta and San Francisco. These discussions on pensions examined the advantages of funding deferred profit sharing plans through a life insurance company and the problems involved in final average retirement plans.

Description: This paper concentrates on the issue of determining interest rates for pricing the guaranteed purchase rates at time of retirement under a group annuity contract, but the technique developed can also be applied to possible variations from expected mortality. A discussion of this paper is included.

Description: These are discussions of the paper, 'Group Annuity Ill-Health Terminations' by Conrad M. Siegel. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 29 AB.

Description: Presents 5 year mortality experience on self-administered pension plans for period from 1980 - 1984, and presents historical data from 1945 forward.