Description: An analysis of how to compute the variance of the present value of future annuity payments as a component of assessing the mortality component of the provision for adverse deviation in the computation of GAAP reserves.

Description: China’s pension system has transformed from traditional retirement system based on command economy to modern pension system based on market economy .

Description: The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the effects of projected mortality on the pricing and valuation of individual immediate annuities. Also discusses considerations in underwriting substandard annuities. Finally, a discussion of this paper is included.

Description: China’s pension system has transformed from traditional retirement system based on command economy to modern pension system based on market economy.

Description: Provides a methodology for determining the value of the share of a particular individual in a joint and survivor annuity held by a trust.

Description: This is a discussion of the paper, Calculation of Approximate Annuity Values on a Mortality Basis that Provides for Future Improvements in Mortality by Charles M. Sternhell. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4.

Description: These are discussion papers on the paper, 'The ELAS Life Income Mortality Table' by Harry Walker. That paper describes the derivation of the ELAS Life Income Mortality Table, which has been adopted by the Equitable Life Assurance Society as the mortality basis for the life income option of the modes of settlement in its current series of policy forms and for the calculation of premiums under currently issued individual deferred annuity contracts.

Description: This is a discussion of the title paper by Eugene A. Rasor and Robert J. Myers. Included is an alternative proof of the theorem provided in the paper.

Description: This paper first discusses the history of the legislation of the joint and survivor benefits for the uniformed service personnel. It then goes on to address the specific actuarial assumptions made and the formulas developed for applying these assumptions for adaptability to the UNIVAC. This paper closes with specific programming procedures involved in using the UNIVAC.

Description: The life annuity mortality risk is the variation in actual financial experience of a group of annuitants from that expected, attributable to the mortality experience of the group. This paper investigated the mortality risk present in a single life annuity and determine the effect of age, sex, assumed interest rate, mortality table, and form of annuity on this risk. Then, it investigated the mortality risk in various portfolios of annuities. Followed by several discussion papers submitted