Description: This article describes the development of the uninsured pensioner, UP-94 Mortality Table, including a comparison with other tables and description of projection methodologies using Projection Scale AA.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This panel discussed the latest trends in mortality including: 1. The new 1994 Group Annuity Mortality and1994 Uninsured Pension tables. 2. Should future improvements be built into the table? If so, how?

Description: This paper is intended to summarize the differences in theUP-94 and GAR-94 tables and to review issues that arise for actuaries in choosing the appropriate mortality table. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1995, Vol. 47.

Description: Study note for EA,2A exam, presents the factors to consider in setting demographic and economic assumptions used in measuring pension obligations. While its primary focus is on the general process of setting such actuarial assumptions, it also covers some of the specifics of assumption-setting relevant to the actuarial valuations used for pension funding in the United States.

Description: In session 10PD of the Washington Annual Meeting panelists discuss current pensioner mortality information as well as projected trends. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 23, No. 3.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] latest trends in mortality and regulatory environment applicable to mortality tables, [2] turnover assumptions, and [3] Actuarial Standards of Practice [ASOPs] that apply to the choosing and setting of demographic assumptions. From the 2002 Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 28, No. 2. Session 63PD of the San Francisco Spring Meeting.

Description: Chairperson’s Corner by Marilyn Miller Oliver from Pension Section News, September 2003, Issue No. 53.

Description: Chairperson’s Corner by Marilyn Miller Oliver from Pension Section News, June 2003, Issue No. 52.

Description: Chairperson’s Corner by Marilyn Miller Oliver from Pension Section News, February 2003, Issue No. 51.

Description: This session from the 1995 SOA Vancouver Meeting discusses assumptions for pension valuation including rates of termination, retirement, disability and mortality. Also addressed is the SOA Pension Section Council's research on rates of termination and the new mortality tables. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 21, No. 3b.