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: This paper will discuss the mortality experience of retired railroad employees during the policy years 1953-56 and present the new mortality table for disability annuitants. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 27.

Description: This paper and subsequent Railroad Retirement Board remarriage tables are results from a culmination of remarriage studies from the period 1947-56. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 32.

Description: Development of a formula for the continuous annuity ax:n| in terms of the Makeham parameters A, B, and c, and the force of interest. Followed by several discussion papers submitted

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this article is a discussion of the paper ‘A New Remarriage Table,’ by A. M. Niessen, which also appears in this volume of the Transactions. The contributors to the discussion provide their comments with respect to Mr. Niessen’s paper, which is based on his studies of widows’ remarriage rates.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to present two new mortality tables for railroad disability annuitants which have been developed recently by the actuarial staff of the Railroad Retirement Board. The tables have been designed for use in the actuarial valuation of the railroad retirement plan as of 1965.

Description: Presentation of certain commutation functions and net single premiums for widows pension benefits

Description: This paper discusses the mortality of railroad annuitants between the 1946 and 1949 anniversaries. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Mortality Experience under the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance System by Louis O. Shudde. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 7.

Description: This section provides multiple book reviews and summaries of recent publications. Topics include aging, retirement and pension plans, investing, demography, mergers and acquisitions, variable annuities and other insurance and mathmatical subjects. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1972, Vol. 24, Pt. 1, No. 70.