Description: This is the author's reply to Dr. Kingkade's discussion of the referenced paper. The author supplies written citations to old age and indicates he does not believe in any fixed limit to the human lifespan.

Description: Full version of The Financial Reporter, Issue 45, March 2001.

Description: Tables used for the Reported Deaths of Centenarians and Near-Centenarians in the U.S. Social Security Administration's Death Master File paper.

Description: This section contains reviews for the following books, Introduction to the Mathematics of Demography by Robert Brown, A Tale of Two Captains by John Baynes and Hugh Maclean, Abolitionist, Actuary, Atheist: Elizur Wright and the Reform Impulse by Lawrence Goodheart, The Federal Data Base Finder by Matthew Lesko and the Guardian Life Insurance Company, 1860-1920, A History of a German-American Enterprise by Anita Rapone. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1991, Vol. 43.

Description: To Admit Or Not To Admit — Is That The Question? by Kenneth W. Faig, Jr. from The Financial Reporter, March 2001, Issue No. 45.

Description: A number of industry groups are currently exploring issues related to reserving assumptions and methodology for group and individual disability insurance, including potential changes to the valuation morbidity tables. This presentation from Session 129PD of the SOA 1999 San Francisco Annual Meeting provides an update on the progress of these projects. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Vol. 25, No. 3.

Description: This article discusses the sources of the information in the Social Security Death Master File and the potential utility of this information for demographic studies of centenarians and near-centenarians.