Description: The last of three articles on the 1983 Table a. The first two articles described the steps in contructing the 1973 Experience Table and the 1983 Table a. This article compares the reserves from the 1983 Table a to the 1971 IAM Table at various ages and by gender.

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 1972 report covers intercompany mortality experience on life income settlements arising out of death claims, life income settlements arising out of maturities or cash surrenders, and matured deferred annuity contracts.

Description: This paper gives a brief description of the New Mortality Basis for Annuities, shows statistics on recent decreases in mortality rates and supplies projection scales and factors for future mortality decreases. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1949, Vol. 1, No. 1.

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: The article is an editorial on annuitant mortality over sixty years, 1923, 1943, 1963 and 1983.

Description: This report deals with the findings of the 1954 iinter-company study of the mortality under individual immediate annuities.

Description: This 1973 report is a sex-distinct summary of the relevant mortality experience for the general population, for insured lives, and for life annuitants.

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

Description: This report gives the 1967 through 1971 mortality experience of twenty-one large life insurance companies under individual immediate annuities issued in the United States and Canada during the years 1931 through 1970, inclusive.