Description: This presentation from Session 18 of the SOA June 2004 San Antonio Spring Meeting discusses how insured mortality has changed during the past 30 years, which published mortality tables are most appropriate to use in today's pricing environment with the proliferation of preferred risk plans, what factors have historically contributed to mortality improvement assumptions, and how underwriting requirements should be coordinated with setting price assumptions. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 2.

Description: This session 34PD of the New Orleans Annual Meeting covers the recent path-breaking research investigates the reasons that females live longer than males in virtually all societies, and even across species. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 3, Session 34PD.