Description: Letter issued by the Society of Actuaries to Life Insurance Companies that have indicated they could contribute to a Mortality Study of Individual Variable Annuities in the Deferred Period. Instructions on how to contribute data are included.

Description: This is a report on intercompany mortality experience by amount of insurance under standard individually underwritten issues. This study includes policy years 2005-07.

Description: The SOA Pension Section Council has sponsored the creation of the following slide presentation for use by pension actuaries. This deck of slides is intended to be used as a starting point for an educational presentation that you may want to use for your clients and/or your actuarial staff. Given your audience and your time constraints, you will most likely want to pick and choose the specific slides (or even the specific data series on a graph) that you want to include. More suggestions on how to use the deck are included on slide 2 of the presentation.

Description: In this project the researchers explored the new opportunities provided by the ongoing revolution in information technology for studies of exceptional human longevity. Methodologies and interpretation of the results were presented.

Description: This is a final report to estimate the total economic cost of obesity. This study looks at the economic costs of obesity caused by increased need for medical care, and loss of economic productivity resulting from excess mortality and disability. The Society of Actuaries breaks out the economic cost of overweight versus obesity for the U.S. and for Canada.

Description: This paper presents mortality rates by sex at ages 90 and above for persons who received retired worker benefits from the social security program for the first month that such benefits were paid. Followed by a discussion paper

Description: This report presents the formal recommendation for a new mortality basis for individual annuity valuations. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1981, Vol. 33.

Description: Discusses changes that the Experience Committees of the Society are making to their processes to improve timeliness and quality of data.

Description: This paper demonstrates the calculation of the moments of the distribution of aggregate life insurance claims from seriatim inforce data, assuming that each record represents an independent Bernoulli trial with its own known probability of a claim, q. Continuous distributions matching the first three or four moments are identified.

Description: This article describes the activities and results of an SOA Task Force on Expansion of Mortality and Morbidity Statistics which was formed to review the mortality and morbidity research undertaken and the statistics published outside the recognized actuarial organizations.