Description: The Society of Actuaries Strategic Research Program Steering Committee is pleased to release this report examining how well people estimate their own life expectancy.

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: Recent trends in mortality suggest that future gains in life expectancy will occur after age 80. This fact stresses the need and the importance to obtain precise measures of mortality at the highest ages, which are always subject to uncertainty due to misreporting of age at death.

Description: Mortality in the U.S. states at ages 80 and older and over years 1959–2011 analyzed and compared with mortality levels in 13 high-longevity countries.

Description: We ask whether we can find support for the previously reported upper limit of the force of mortality of 0.7, i.e. about the probability of tossing a fair coin.

Description: Guaranteed Issue Mortality Rates with a 55% load.

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.