Description: The Q&A’s contain additional background information on the development, application and impact of Scale BB. Scale BB was introduced in March 2012 as an interim mortality improvement scale which may be used by pension actuaries until work on a formal successor to the widely used improvement scale, Scale AA, is complete.

Description: The Mortality Improvement Survey Subcommittee of the Society's Committee on Life Insurance Mortality & Underwriting Surveys has completed its report on the results of a survey to examine mortality improvement practices with respect to reinsurance pricing in both the US and Canada. A few questions were asked about functions other than pricing.

Description: Covers experience from 1973 - 1978 on nonsmoker mortality to be used by the NAIC and its Technical Advisory Committee as a basis for developing interim valuation standards for nonsmoker ordinary business. Interim scaling factors to be applied to specified valuation mortality tables are also provided to develop smoker and non-smoker valuation mortality.

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: The 1980 CSO Tables were developed by the Special Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation to replace the existing 1958 CSO Tables as the minimum standard for valuation. This paper presents the new tables and recommendations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.