Description: In this session presenters will discuss recent trends in mortality. Learn about future mortality improvement, older age mortality and preferred wear-off based on several industry data sources, including the Individual Life Experience Committee (ILEC). The presenters will also discuss the latest research on the SOA's 1900 birth cohort mortality analysis project.

Description: From a session at a meeting of the Society of Actuaries held in San Diego, CA, June 22-23, 2000 This session provided an update on the progress of the American Academy of Actuaries task force charged with developing a long-term strategic approach for marketing the profession to future users of actuarial services and to strategically position and strengthen the profession.

Description: The "peak oil" movement provided a very misleading view of what reaching limits of a finite world would look like. In physics terms, the world economy is a dissipative structure, which depends on an increasing supply of inexpensive-to-produce energy to operate. As the world economy reaches limits, among the type of impacts we should expect include:1. Falling inflation-adjusted economic growth rates;2. Falling inflation rates;3. Falling interest rates;4. Asset price bubbles that are prone to collapse; and5. Rapid changes in interest rates and currency relativities.