Description: This report presents mortality under individual immediate annuities, life income settlements, and matured deferred annuities between the 1971 and 1976 anniversaries.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to suggest an improved method of future mortality improvement approximation, using the a-1949 Table as the basic table. Comparisons are shown between this method and other methods for annuitants.

Description: This discussion looks at the projection factors set forth in the Jenkins-Lew paper and the implications with respect to individual annuities, life income settlement options and group annuities. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: From the 1960 Transactions Vol. 12 No. 32, this ‘Discussion of Subjects of Special Interest’ addresses dividends. Topics include the reflection in dividends of new federal income tax basis for qualified pensions involving individual policies, and for certain annuities, rate of excess interest on supplementary contracts vs. accumulated dividends, and issues involving dividends on supplementary contracts.

Description: The objective of this forum was to bring together basic factual material and to discover a good cross section of actuarial thinking in this field. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: The purpose of the present paper is to propose a family of sex-year-of-birth tables which may be used in place of The Annuity Table for 1940 with Projection. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: This general discussion looks at mortality experience with the advent of CSO tables, annuity premium tax, termination dividends, classes of agents included under Social Security, and conditions affecting companies entering the fields of disability income, accident, health, hospitalization and medical insurance.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, 'A Convenient Method of Providing for Mortality Improvement Based on the a-1949 Table' by James E. Hoskins. Discusses seriousness of errors that can develop under certain circumstances, provides a formula for adjusting by modes of payment, discusses circumstances in which differences between Hoskins' method and Projection B is greater than in the example used in the paper, etc.

Description: This paper presents a relatively simple method for calculating approximate annuity values on a mortality basis that provides for future improvements in mortality. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 3.

Description: This paper describes a method for valuing a contingent or reversionary interest involving 2, 3, and 4 lives subject to federal tax. Tools are provided so that a person with little technical knowledge can make the determination. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1951, Vol. 3, No. 6.