Description: This article from the Digest of Informal Discussion, Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1955 Volume 7, Number 17, identifies the participants and summarizes their comments. Discussion topics include: whether changes in ordinary insurance mortality are significant enough to consider preparing a more up-to-date mortality table for reserve purposes problems involved in constructing and securing statutory approval of annuity reserve tables with built in mortality improvement factors extent to which differences between current premium rate mortality assumptions and CSO mortality contribute to problems with deficiency reserves and arguments for and against the adoption of a different actuarial basis for deficiency reserves.

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.

Description: Summarizes results of PBR survey of regulators by the Valuation Law and Manual Team, VLMT, of the Life Reserves Working Group, LRWG. Did not say what regulators were surveyed.

Description: This report presents the 1980 CSO and 1980 CET Tables on an Age Last Birthday ALB basis. These tables were derived from the 1980 CSO Age Nearest Birthday ANB Tables with the cooperation of the Committee to Recommend New Mortality Tables for Valuation. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: This paper discusses and provides the 1958 CSO and CET Mortality Tables on the Age Last Birthday Basis.

Description: This is a digest of of informal discussions recorded in the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 27. Topics addressed: 1. Need for a new life valuation table. 2. Special policies such as Family Plans and Bank Loan and Split Dollar Plans. 3. Trends in agent compensation.

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Description: The presenters will cover the latest research undertaken by the Individual Life Experience Committee (ILEC). With several years of very robust individual life insurance experience data accumulated through the mandatory Statistical Agent data calls, this vast amount of data allows for various deeper dives into specific segments of business, such as large face amount, older age or juvenile. Speakers will cover studies the committee is currently involved in, future planned efforts, and results from a variety of sub-segments of business. Attendees will learn about emerging statistical techniques in scrubbing data, more refined quintile-grouped data segments, and interesting ways of conceptualizing how A/E results have changed from year to year. There will be something for everyone!

Description: This article makes a case for implementation of a mortality fluctuation reserve in GAAP accounting.

Description: Discusses mortality improvements over the last 20 years, the extent to which premiums on nonparticipating policies reflect the changes in mortality experience, the proposed new valuation table, should valuation tables be split by gender, and extra mortality on substandard lives at very long durations.